Browsing by Author "Laakso, Taru"

Parenthood is very gendered, and it shows when we talk about lone parents. Lone fathers usually gets praises when they are taking care of their own children. Lone mothers on the other hand gets mainly judged about everything. In media lone mothers economical difficulty is very discussed topic. In this thesis I focus on lone mothers own experience about their parenthood. My material is lone mothers writings from their blogs and I have picked seven different writings that I will analyze. All these writings are written in 2018-2022. I will use in my analysis Erving Goffmans dramaturgical sosiology, which has an idea about roles that all individuals uses when they are interacting with others. I also use concept of identity from discourse analysis. In my analysis I noticed how in all those writings are used very similar roles. For example lone mothers wanted to tell how much work it requires to keep up with everything. They also writed about how much joy and happines they experience.