Housing has broader implications for families. Single mother families face many difficulties that make them more susceptible when encountering housing problems. By analyzing the content of a single mother Facebook group, this article describes a variety of housing insecurity issues experienced by single mother families in Australia, including unaffordable housing, struggles in the private rental market, high mobility, and homelessness. We observed some risk factors and protective factors at both individual level and structural level that intersect and mediate single mother families’ experiences of these housing insecurity issues. A multidimensional framework is applied to analyze the complexity and fluidity of these factors. Psychosocial and group-based interventions can help single mother families manage stress and improve their adaptation to some housing insecurity issues. However, mountain-moving efforts to tackle structural problems are central and urgent to address these issues and to support single mothers and their children.

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澳大利亚单亲家庭的住房不安全经历和应对策略：一项以互联网为媒介的研究

住房对家庭有更广泛的影响。单身母亲家庭面临许多困难，使他们在遇到住房问题时更容易受到影响。本文通过分析单亲妈妈 Facebook 群的内容，描述了澳大利亚单亲妈妈家庭所经历的各种住房不安全问题，包括难以负担的住房、私人租赁市场的挣扎、高流动性和无家可归等问题。我们在个人层面和结构层面观察到一些风险因素和保护因素，它们与单亲母亲家庭在这些住房不安全问题上的经历相交和中介。应用多维框架来分析这些因素的复杂性和流动性。社会心理和基于群体的干预措施可以帮助单身母亲家庭管理压力并提高他们对某些住房不安全问题的适应能力。然而，解决结构性问题的搬山努力对于解决这些问题和支持单身母亲及其子女至关重要。