Effective Parenting Models for Single Parent Mothers (Divorced)

Single parent mothers have a role as breadwinners while educating and directing children so that children in the development process are in accordance with the expectations and ideals of being a child that is useful for family, society, and country, as well as religion. Therefore, mothers need to have an effective parenting model to achieve expectations and ideals. The aim of the study was to study and obtain effective parenting models from single parent mothers(divorced).The study was conducted with a qualitative approach to obtain a single parent's mothering profile, the willingness or expectation of a single parent mother to care for her child, weaknesses and strengths of parenting models that would be carried out by single parent mothers to their children and findings in the form of effective parenting models from single parent mothers. Data collection methods are documentation, questionnaires, interviews, observation and Focus Group Discussion (FGD). Triangulation technique for collecting research data. Data analysis using interactive models. Activities in data analysis are data reduction, data display, and conclusion. The results of the study show that the parenting model used by single parent mothers includes models or patterns of democratic, authoritarian and permissive parenting, in accordance with aspects of child development.