Unaccompanied Children in Churches: Low-Income Urban Single Mothers, Religion, and Parenting
Social scientists know relatively little about how low-income urban single mothers engage religion in parenting, particularly their rationales for involving children in religious practices and the strategies they use for doing so. This article develops a theoretical model of religion as a resource t...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2008
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Review of religious research
Year: 2008, Volume: 50, Issue: 2, Pages: 157-175 |
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| Summary: | Social scientists know relatively little about how low-income urban single mothers engage religion in parenting, particularly their rationales for involving children in religious practices and the strategies they use for doing so. This article develops a theoretical model of religion as a resource that poor urban mothers access in negotiating the many demands of parenting. I analyze both personal religious faith and organized religion as parenting resources. Given the stressors that low-income mothers confront, the studies showing religion as a resource across a wide range of situations, existing scholarship on poor mothers that neglects religion, and evidence linking religion to better child outcomes, this research addresses a substantial and important gap in knowledge. Based on forty-four in-depth interviews with low-income urban mothers, it draws implications for theoretical and pastoral consideration. |
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| ISSN: | 2211-4866 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Review of religious research
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