The Exploration of Marital Viewpoints of Unmarried Women in Early Adulthood Experiencing Parental Divorce in Their Adolescence
Date Issued
2015
Date
2015
Author(s)
Chiang, Pei-Yu
Abstract
In the past two decades, the divorce rate in Taiwan has increased drastically and divorce has become the main source for the single-parent family in Taiwan. Consequently, the issues on single-parent family owing to divorce draw wide attention from Taiwanese society. The previous studies have focused on the short-term effects of divorce on children; nonetheless, the recent research put more emphasis on the long-term effects, especially the long-term impact on children in early adulthood, the stage for young adult developing close relationship, preparing for marriage and establishing their own family. Participants in this research are the unmarried women in their early adulthood who experienced parental divorce in their adolescence. The researcher attempts to understand those women’s experience on parental divorce, their marital viewpoint, including the attitude toward marriage, toward their life style after marriage, and toward their partner selecting tendency, as well as the forming process of marital viewpoint, in order to help women with parental divorce in their adolescence, the divorced single parents, and practitioners. The qualitative research was conducted by in-depth interviews with four qualified participants screened by snowball sampling and purposive sampling via the researcher’s personal networks and the Internet. The research findings indicate three common themes: First of all, the participants anticipate having their own marriage while be afraid of getting hurt inside the marriage simultaneously. On top of that, the participants will look for a responsible and reliable partner to reassure the security of marriage. Last but not least, the participants will imagine the ideal marriage referring to their parents’ marriage. Based on the research finding, the researcher recommends that the divorced single-parent should care and support their female children and maintain well parent-daughter relationship, in an attempt to decrease the young women’s insecurity of marriage. The researcher also asserts that the young women from divorced single-parent family should realize the impact of her parents’ divorce on them, the meanings their gave to the divorce of her parents, and what they have not learned because of the experience of parental divorce, and the ensuing trying to establish the intimacy and marriage as they imagined. Finally, the researcher proposes that the practitioners should provide those young women with life story narrating environments, gender education, growth groups, and individual counseling in order that the young women can face the parental divorce experience in their own fashion and pace. Keyword: adolescence, parental divorce, early adulthood, unmarried women, marital viewpoints.
Subjects
adolescence
parental divorce
early adulthood
unmarried women
marital viewpoints
Type
thesis
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