Single Parenting

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Parenting is the practice of supporting and encouraging the physical, emotional, social and academic development of a child from birth to adult. Society says children should be raised in a two-parent family. Although, in most cases raising a child or children in a two-parent family is best, there are situations where children are better off living and being raised by one parent.
It has been said, children from two-parent families are better off. The setting is also a factor to take into consideration. The increase in single- parent homes has had an extensive and negative effect on children’s development. 50% of marriages end in divorce. We have young people with young minds having children, they can hardly take care of themselves at the age of 21, yet they have decided to bring four children into this world to be raised by one parent. In some communities, majority of the children are being raised by a single parent. Statistics have shown that children raised in a healthy single parent home have more problems emotionally, psychologically, in school, and with the law than those raised in healthy two-parent homes. No matter how good a single parent is, that a single parent can NEVER do for the child how two present, committed, parent partners share and work together; communicate together and solve problems together as equals.
Some problems children of single-parent families may have:
Less emotional support for the children
1. Harsher discipline
2. Inconsistent discipline
3. Fewer rules
4. Less supervision
5. More conflict with parent and child
6. Lower achieved levels of education
7. Twice the dropout rate
8. Twice the incarceration rate
9. Violent crime involvement
10. Gang involvement
11. More likely to be a teen parent
12. Nee...

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...sitive attitude toward parenting and life in general, this seems to be the more successful approach: They see positive aspects in stressful situations and feel that they have succeeded despite many doubts. It's common for single parents to take a negative view of the challenges they face. However, if single-parent families are willing to work hard and get help when they need it, they can benefit from their situation in a number of ways.

Works Cited

ites:
Wolf, Jennifer. "Positive Effects of Single Parenting" StudyMode.com. 04 2011. 2011. 04 2011 .

Stevens, Larry. “Single vs Two-Parent Families, Child Development and Society”
Examiner.com 1 April 2001

Books:
Thomson, Gale. “Family, Opposing Viewpoints”. Nasso, Christine, Publisher 2008

Waldfogel, Jane. “What Children Need”. 2006

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