Young motherhood in Singapore : strategies for managing stigma and maintaining positive self-esteem.

• Main Author: Gomes, Gillian Anne.
• Other Authors: Sulfikar Amir
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/51653
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The young mother identity is a stigmatized identity in Singapore, and this research illustrates how such negative perceptions that others hold of these individuals affect their sense of self and self-esteem. In this paper, I argue that young mothers do not passively accept such a negative label, but...