Single Parent Households

Toys everywhere, clothes piling up, bill stacking, attention seeking children, homework and studying, are just few to many things single parents deal with. While the only concern on their mind is closing their eyes. Being a single mother, living alone, and attending school is strenuous work, especially without any help. However, that is the difference between single parents living alone and moving in with their parents. Single mothers will receive the luxury of having extra help with the kids, splitting the household chores, laying down for a nap, fewer bills, and obtaining a valuable amount of study time for school. Without a doubt, single parents moving into

Although the ideology of single moms have progressively gotten better over the years, they are still stigmatized as being plight in today’s society. Whereas, in reality, they are exceptional role models and self reliant; ultimately, revealing that single moms can prevail two parental figures.

Did you know that more than one fourth of all children in the United States live with only one parent? Single parenting has become more common today than in the 1800s, when it was sometimes frowned upon. As the years have gone by, it has become easier and easier for women to become single parents. In the 1800’s if husbands died or abandoned their families, women had no choice but to work for extremely low and unfair wages. Today, most men and women are treated equal and receive equal wages making it easier for women to be single parents. This concept is shown in Twain’s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer through Aunt Polly in the 19th century, single parenting is also common today.

Credibility: I am a single parent of two daughter and I must say that I can relate to a lot of single parents. It is hard. I can say that there are good days and bad days. Every day will not be perfect. At the age of 20, I became a single parent and caring for my daughter alone was the most difficult experience ever for me. Single parenting to me is work on top of work and it is never ending.

The trend of single-parent households are drastically increasing every year. The United States Census Bureau reported in 2013 that about 27.8 percent of children lived in a household with only a mother or only a father. In 2013, 23.7 percent of all children were living with their single mother and is

Nowadays there are many different types of single parent families: single mother, single father, single grandparent raising their grandchildren and this has become more common than the nuclear family consisting of a mother, father and children over the past 20 years.

I have grown up in a single parent household since I was just three years old. My parents got divorced, and my brother and I were with my mom the majority of the time. We spent every

Being the only child of a single parent was never as much fun for us as other kids. My dad had a really bad drinking problem and was kicked out by my mom, who has to work all day and night to

Many children in today’s society have grown to become successful and mentally stable whether they had two parents, or one parent raise them. With everything in life it is never about quantity, but quality. This could apply to single parenting as well. As long as a parent create a stable and nurturing home their child will grow up to be a mature, hard working, independent, and loving adult. Family structure should not be the main focus when it comes to raising children, the focus should be on the values and life lessons that are taught to the child as they mature in life. Family structure in the last decade have change drastically. Children are being raised by same sex parents, grandparents, extended family, a single father, or a single

“A single parent family is a family living together in a home atmosphere where only one parent is present with one or more children. This is in opposition to a family with two parents living in the home. A married couple can also live in a single family setting for extended periods of time if one of the spouses travels for long periods of time or is imprisoned for instance. In brief, it is any family with one or more children where one of the parents has to serve a double parental role of mother and father for an extended or permanent period.” (Facts about single parenting, 2008-2009). 25.8 percent of children living in the United States only have one parent present (Rampell, 2010).

A single parent is an individual who shoulders most or all of the day-to-day responsibilities for raising a child or children (Wikipedia). A single parent not only has to care for their children but also has to have a way to provide for them. Single parents have double the duty because they have to work in order to provide for their children and have to be their parents and raise them, all by themselves without the help of a partner. Balancing work and life is a challenge for a single parent.

As social workers we come in contact with a variety of communities, who may be experiencing any number of problems. Part of our responsibility to our clients is to develop skills or possible solutions to these problems. Often times, we must development plans for entire communities in order to address the problems at hand. Once such community is single mothers raising children.

Some people think that children can only grow to their full potential by being raised by both a mother and a father. For one parent to raise a child by themselves, it can be difficult for several reasons. A single-parent must work full time or with today’s job market, work numerous part time jobs

As a young child, I grew up in a single parent household. My mother who worked hard to make sure I was always in private school and had a good education. My mother never missed a school concert, PTA meetings, back to school night, or chapel presentations. Growing up in a single parent household also had its challenges as well. Some challenges were having limited money for fun activities, or not being able to go on vacations. However, there are some effects it can have on children such as emotionally and academically.

First, single parents face hard time providing their children activities and parenting which have long term effects on children as compared to married couples. "With a single parent, there 's only one earner.... When it comes to ferrying children to lessons or sports, they just can 't do it," she says. "We found that parenting differs mostly because of resources - more so than by family structure." says Sandra Hofferth, professor of family science at the University of Maryland School of Public Health (Stephanie). Parenting is more disturbed by lack of resources not by family structure. More than quarter of children under age of 6 are living in families with income level below the poverty line and this number is increasing in single parent