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Feeling Poor: The Felt Experience Low-Income Lone Mothers

Lynn McIntyre

Faculty of Health Professions, Dalhousie University Lynn.McIntyre{at}dal.ca

Suzanne Officer

Faculty of Health Professions, Dalhousie University

Lynne M. Robinson

School of Health and Human Performance, Dalhousie University

This article describes what it means to feel poor from the perspective of low-income lone mothers. The construct of feeling poor is complex and multifaceted for these mothers, whose common behaviors include self-sacrifice and coping. The authors identify 10 feeling domains for these mothers: feeling deprived, righteous, the need for occupational choice, relatively better positioned than others, the need to manage the appearance of poverty, judged/degraded, guilty, isolated, dependent, and despondent.

Key Words: poverty • single mothers • coping

Affilia, Vol. 18, No. 3, 316-331 (2003)
DOI: 10.1177/0886109903254581
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