The purpose of this study was to understand the experience of single mothers about caring for children in disaster situations such as the COVID-19 through the voices of the single mothers. To this end, five single mothers who took care of their childr...
The purpose of this study was to understand the experience of single mothers about caring for children in disaster situations such as the COVID-19 through the voices of the single mothers. To this end, five single mothers who took care of their children in the COVID-19 were selected. Individual in-depth interviews and a qualitative study method were conducted. As a result of analyzing the contents, four categories such as ‘uneasy but calm daily life even with COVID-19’, ‘educational gap widening due to COVID-19’, ‘more difficult solo care due to the disaster’ and ‘last limit reached to the end by overlapping disasters’ and 10 sub-categories were derived. Single mothers and children who had to be trapped in narrow spaces due to social distancing were found to be in a double disaster situation. This disaster situation was found to have penetrated deeper into single mothers, who were vulnerable, and the burden of care was heavier. Based on these results, practice and policy suggestions were proposed to reduce the burden of caring among single mothers in disaster situations such as COVID-19.