摘要：Keyword: key words: coping, single mother, divorceAbstrack:ABSTRACT :Parenting is not easy. Childcare responsibilities on both parents. This responsibility will feel lighter when both parents are working together and sharing in the face of any existing problems in parenting. Whether its economic problems, emotions, or education of his children. Expenses will be felt more heavily burdened when child-care responsibilities are borne alone. This was experienced by sole parents. In women who are raising children alone or a single mother, must be a double play, either a father or mother for her children. In addition to more attention to their children, mothers should be able to work for economic and educational needs childrens. Weight of the responsibilities and difficulties faced by it, can make individuals become stressed. Then how the coping single mother who experience stress. This study aimed to image the stress experienced by the divorced single mother, find the cause of stress experienced by a single mother, and know the description of the single mother coping to overcome the stress. With the aim, the appropriate research approach is qualitative case study approach. Data collected by observation and depth interview methods. Subjects in this study was a 35-year-old woman acting as a single mother to two children from the data analysis, it is known that the subjects experienced mood symptoms (crying, anger, daydreaming) and symptoms of organ in the body (dizziness, conditions weakens the body, fainting). Stress comes from the subject himself, family, community, and disruption of daily life.
