Shao-Ling Hu
Department of Social Welfare Taipei City Government
Sheh-Wei Sun
Department of Social Work National Taipei University
This research studies how low-income single-mothers recover from living impacts from the perspective of strength. The conclusion was drawn from three times of individual interviews with four single- mothers. It is inducted that the recovery of a single-mother can be divided into three steps: survival, face and acceptance. In those steps, the parent- child interaction is important to induce the strength contents including empowerment, resilience, membership, healing and wholeness. This parent-child relationship can offer support in addition to the social welfare.
Keyword: single-mother, parent-child relationship, strength, recovery process