From the life stories made by ten unemployed single fathers, the following questions are inquired by the narrative study method: 1. How are the vulnerable situations of unemployment and single parenthood being told by men? 2. What kinds of meanings in the texts which represent the masculine gender are constructed by social consciousness? 3. What kinds of reflective thinking that can be done in relation to the welfare system? The following situations throughout one's entire life become an important plot of narrative according to the findings of the study: the vulnerable experiences of childhood, early involvements of labor in the juvenile period, the ups and downs of career development in the adult age, and single parenthood in the middle age. Finally, the researcher suggests to the welfare system the reframing of the social identity of ”unemployment” to ”suppliers” as well as ”scapegoats” for those men working as parents at home.