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

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...

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Main Author: Gomes, Gillian Anne.
Other Authors: Sulfikar Amir
Format: Final Year Project (FYP)
Language:English
Published: 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10356/51653

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