Document Type : Research Paper
Authors
1 STUDENT
2 Associate Professor, Department of Social Work, Faculty of Social Sciences, Allameh Tabatabaei University
3 Associate Professor, Faculty of Law and Political Science, Shiraz University
Abstract
The absence of a father and the formation of single-parent families with women heads of household as a social issue have many consequences for children, and this article aims to understand the developmental process of these children and provide a strategy to improve their situation. The present study is qualitative and grounded theory type, conducted through Semi-structured interviews with 25 women heads of household using a purposive and theoretical sampling method. After analyzing, in the causal domain, the following categories were extracted: Compound poverty, broken support umbrella, fear of the future, unstable health, and feelings of helplessness, in the background conditions: social inequality, inefficiency of the social welfare system, social stigma, gender discrimination, traumatic environment, generational thinking, and in relation to intervening factors: lack of leisure time, deprivation, suppressed desires, virtual addiction, peer influence, and feelings of insecurity. The common experience of women heads of household in relation to children can be described in the central category of "concern for the child's growth and conformity" and the use of adaptive strategies also has positive and negative consequences. Accordingly, from the perspective of developmental prevention, the economic and social pressures on women heads of household are risk factors in the development of children and can cause them to deviate from the norm. As a result, for the social protection of these children, it is necessary to pay attention to developmental prevention interventions on the one hand and try to reduce the economic and social pressures on women on the other.
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