This study explored the different circumstances that single, low-income women from Botswana had to navigate in childhood with their own mothers and how they experienced and negotiated motherhood as single mothers living in poverty. Grounded in a constructionist paradigm and in literature on motherhood as a practice, discourse, and social identity that is constructed in the intersecting contexts of culture, class, ethnicity, and gender, in-depth data were gathered in semi-structured interviews with 15 women living in a rural region in Botswana. Women felt unprepared for motherhood and struggled in this role, yet they also viewed motherhood as transforming.

这项研究探讨了来自博茨瓦纳的单身低收入女性在童年时期必须与自己的母亲一起度过的不同环境，以及她们作为生活在贫困中的单身母亲如何经历和协商成为母亲。以建构主义范式和关于母性作为一种实践、话语和社会认同的文学为基础，在文化、阶级、种族和性别的交叉背景下构建，在对 15 名女性的半结构化访谈中收集了深入的数据住在博茨瓦纳的一个农村地区。女性对做母亲感到毫无准备并在这个角色中挣扎，但她们也认为母亲身份正在转变。