| Summary: | 碩士 === 高雄師範大學 === 成人教育研究所 === 97 === The purpose of this study is to explore the condition of single parent families of elementary school students using community resources, the researcher tries to understand the present status of the single parent families, such as what community resources do they often use, what difficulties will they face when using community resources, and the expectation of future life and community resources. This is a qualitative research, and researcher goes with a semi-construct questionnaire to interview the single parents with children studying in elementary schools. The study came to the following conclusions:
1. Single parents have a heavy economical burden; they can’t manage job and family well at the same time, even their own health.
2. Single parents show weakness on nurturing their children; especially male single parents have more trouble on this task.
3. Some divorced couples bring problems to each other on nurturing their children.
4. Single parent families don’t fully use the formal community resources.
5. The informal community resources that single parents often use are from relatives, friends and informal organizations.
6. The difficulties that single parent families face when using community resources:
(1) Single parents can’t get welfare information easily; they always need others’ assistances.
(2) The informal supporting system as the main support for single parent families is short to some families.
(3) The subsidy for single parent families, which every government gives, is different.
(4) The welfare organizations can’t fully evaluate the multi-weakness of single parent families.
(5) The personnel of verifying welfare can’t consider the feeling of single parents when they seek help.
7. The expectation of single parents is focused on their children.
8. The expectation of community resources that single parents focus is on school education. They hope their children can get better lessons from after-school class, and hope school could help direct the attitude and behavior of their children; otherwise, they hope social administration can lower the applying requirement and increase the amount of subsidy.
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