Identifying stressors experienced by single fathers and its effect on quality child care
This study aims to identify the experiences of single fathers and their roles as primary caregiver to their children as men in society adopting traditionally feminine roles. Existing research does not address issues concerning single fathers and the stressors they experience in raising their childre...
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| Format: | Final Year Project Report |
| Language: | English English |
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Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, (UNIMAS)
2018
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| Online Access: | http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/32328/3/Maizul.pdf http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/32328/6/Maizul%20full.pdf http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/32328/ |
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| Summary: | This study aims to identify the experiences of single fathers and their roles as primary caregiver to their children as men in society adopting traditionally feminine roles. Existing research does not address issues concerning single fathers and the stressors they experience in raising their children. This study addresses these issues and helps researchers understand single fathers by using a qualitative approach to understand their perception of parenting. Three single father from
Kedah participated in semi-structured interviews to elicit information about this phenomenon. This study focused on experiences the men have while being a single parent, that have care for their children alone. By exploring how these fathers, maneuver childrearing as a male in society I assist in gaining insight and understanding to this population that has been previously overlooked in academic research. Results of this study found that there are four (4) types of challenges faced by single father. The types of challenges faced by single father is (1) childcare, (2) family conflict, (3) finances, and (5) the challenge of stigma dan support. Overal, this study
provided additional information into the stressor fathers experience and the effect to the quality childcare. There are relationship between stressor experience faced by single father and their quality childcare. |
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