Research On Parenting Social Support Construction Based On Social Media Use By Urban Migrant Mothers And Social Work Intervention Strategies

With the accelerated development of urbanization,more and more young migrants flow into cities in the form of family migration,and choose to give birth and raise children in cities.As a result,the number of urban migrant children and migrant mothers is on the rise.With the rapid development and popularization of the Internet,social media is providing more and more guidance for mothers and has become an important support for its parenting support construction.How to use social media for urban migrant mothers,instead of relying on traditional blood and geographical relationships to obtain social support for childcare,to be included in the modern communication path of social support,is an issue worthy of attention.This paper uses qualitative research methods,based on interviews with urban migrant mothers and observations of parenting We Chat groups,to explore their social media use needs and experiences to obtain parenting social support,and to understand and analyze why and how to use social media to build a parenting support network.The study found that urban migrant mothers can obtain information support,emotional care,companionship and realization of self-worth through the use of social media for self-disclosure and interaction,further expand social network and accumulate social capital,and obtain and reconstruct good and effective parenting social support.However,this kind of online social support also faces problems and challenges such as fragility and breakage,and supporting ecological unsustainability.Secondly,the social media usage process of urban migrant mothers’ parenting social support construction mainly includes several stages: contact and exploration,doubt and confirmation,interaction and communication,continuous use and immersion,and use reflection.At the same time,this paper discusses the action logic and use dilemma behind the use of social media by urban migrant mothers to obtain social support for parenting,and proposes multi-level and targeted social work intervention strategies to provide reference for the development of related services and policies.