Advantages And Disadvantages Of Single Parenting

“There's a cultural bias against single parents; an assumption that these households are less than, incomplete, and children suffer as a consequence.” says Patricia Leavy, PhD Author of Blue and Method Meets Art Second Edition (A Conversation about Single Parenting: Challenging the Stereotypes,2016)

Whom do you define as a single parent? A single parent is someone who is an individual without marriage or has separated from his/her partner due to many reasons and the one who shoulders almost all of the everyday responsibilities that relate also to raising a child. A mother, she is the primary source of love and affection in the family and she is the one who is usually the chief caregiver in any single-parent family structure that has arisen

She tries to overcome that part when the society just accepts the fact that she is an incompetent parent. She does nothing more than parenting and living up to the child’s expectations, after all that is what mothers are all about.

The study on comparing single mothers and married mothers shows that both of them have their own set of advantages and disadvantages. The major difference is that, the advantages of one are the disadvantages of the other.

The first differentiation basis is that a single mother does not have to wake up, full of rage every morning whereas the married mother may go through various fights, family pressure and other things in her marriage life that might disturb her and she may wake up with rage. A single mother is her own master as she can make her own rules and can be excited about the future again. This is not possible for any married mother. Second point is from the employment point of view. The share of single mothers who work outside home is more than the share of the married mothers who work outside