Does a Baby Help Young Women Transition out of Homelessness? Motivation, Coping, and Parenting

Autor/inn/en	Ruttan, Lia; Laboucane-Benson, Patricia; Munro, Brenda
Titel	Does a Baby Help Young Women Transition out of Homelessness? Motivation, Coping, and Parenting
Quelle	In: Journal of Family Social Work, 15 (2012) 1, S.34-49 (16 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1052-2158
DOI	10.1080/10522158.2012.642671
Schlagwörter	Homeless People; Females; Adolescents; Coping; Housing; Birth; Motivation; Early Parenthood; Stress Variables; Mental Health; Substance Abuse; Longitudinal Studies; Pregnancy; Mothers; Toddlers; Drug Use; Parents; Foreign Countries; Interviews; Young Adults; Canada + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Homeless person; Homeless persons; Obdachloser; Weibliches Geschlecht; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Bewältigung; Unterkunft; Geburt; psychologische; Motivation (psychologisch); Psychohygiene; Drug use; Drug consomption; Drogenkonsum; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Schwangerschaft; Mother; Mutter; Infant; Infants; Toddler; Kleinkind; Drug consumption; Substance abuse; Eltern; Ausland; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Young adult; Junger Erwachsener; Kanada
Abstract	Homeless young women experience high levels of stress, challenges to mental health, substance use and abuse, and a lack of housing or of secure housing. This article explores one of the findings from a longitudinal qualitative study designed to follow homeless young women for a 2-year period as they make efforts to transition out of homelessness. Our objective was to determine the assets used by these young women as they survived on the street and to transition out of homelessness. The authors found that one of the primary reasons discussed for leaving homelessness was becoming pregnant and having a baby. However, most of the mothers reported increasing levels of stress as the baby became a toddler. They described themselves as using "soft drugs" as a mode of coping with this stress. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10