The Parent-Child relationship of new resident mother：A Narrative Analysis

• Main Authors: Hsin-Hsuan Wu, 吳欣璇
• Other Authors: 金瑞芝
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2009
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/60943584779840303903

碩士 === 臺北市立教育大學 === 幼兒教育學系碩士班 === 97 === Abstract The purpose of this research was to understand the development of parent-child relationship of a new resident mother and its context. The participant mother was a Vietnam-born Cambodian lady who married to a Taiwanese man with mildly impairment and lived with parents in law. The study used narrative method and life story to explore the new resident mother’s parent-child relationship. The researcher interviewed the mother and observed parent-child interaction in outing occasions. Through the mother’s narration of her autobiographic memory of childhood and her story about marriage, the researcher structured her life story into her childhood in Vietnam, teenage years in Cambodia, marrying to Taiwanese family, becoming a Taiwanese wife and mother. She related her childrearing perspectives to her childhood experiences and felt disappointed at her husband’s parenting involvement. She started to learn the role of motherhood in the terms of economic independence and her immigrant background. After her life story is represented, theme analysis and frame analysis were applied to structure the development of parent-child relationship of the mother. The results indicated that the conflicts between her and family members and her concept for parent-children relationship made her undergo a reform. The theme analysis revealed the undesirable family role, the favorable status of the son as compared to daughter, and the differential parent-child relationships between son and daughter. These themes reflected that she was distressed and deprived in Taiwanese family structure. Frame analysis exhibited that she realized the influential factors of the conflicts with family members and her mother role. She strived to change her attitude and work hard to deal with her family issue. She tried to reframe her concept about family via retrospecting her marriage, parent-child relationship and her role in family. She wanted to have a better life and relationship with children in the future. The case study exemplifies the struggle that a new resident mother has encountered and the process of her empowerment.