The Marriage Experiences of Married Women Who Grew Up in Divorced Single-Parent Families
Date Issued
2015
Date
2015
Author(s)
Kao, Chia-Chu
Abstract
The marriage experience of married women who grew up in divorced single- parent families is often described as vicious cycle of divorce. The study intends to explore the positive side of their marriage experience from social learning perspective. Six women whose parents were divorced before 18 years old were sampled through the Internet and each was in-depth interviewed. They were all married over one year and some are over 4 years. Four of them have kids already and one of them is going to have kid soon. The results indicated that their marriage experience was intricately interwoven with their parents’ marriage experience. First, they expressed how resilient experience they learn from growing up from their parental divorce. However, their self-independence personality developed from living in single-parent families became a salient struggle when they needed to make mutual decisions with their marriage partners. Second, they always kept vigilant when experience marriage difficulties, But they would never speak out the word of “divorce”during mutual fights, due to a warning of their experiencing parents’ unsuccessful marriage. Last but not least, their back ground of growing up in single-parent familiesdid cause much pressure when meeting cultural rituals of wedding preparation and father presence or not in the wedding banquet.To conclude, implications about braking up divorce cycles, promoting diverse families, and divorce courses are discussed at the end of this study.
Subjects
divorced single-parent families
married women
marriage experiences
divorce cycle
social learning theory
Type
thesis
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