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17 Cards in this Set
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Intact |
Not broken, complete |
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Broken family |
Split or separation. Leads to children being raised by single parents, step or not related to biological parents |
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Lone parent family |
A mother father with no spouse or common law partner present, living in a dwelling with one or more children. Possibly no other parent in child's life |
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Trends in lone patent family |
80% are headed by a woman - one father parents are increasing to 21% Total number of lone patent families 16% and is slightly increasing |
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Why increase? |
Children viewed as separate from marriage Increase in divorce rate Increase in unmarried mothers |
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Quality of life |
Lone parent families have lowest incomes 2008: average female lone parent made 43,300. 70% lower than what the male lone parent made Females risk for poverty l |
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Video |
Black and Latino women with children impoverished - lack of available and affordable childcare, depending on family Housing single largest expense 30% income goes towards housing |
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Social supports |
How supportive society is as a whole Immediate sources of emotional and practical help Single parents reporting loneliness |
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Quality of life |
Lone parents higher rates of mood and substance use disorders than married According to US representative study : divorced mothers have higher rates of mental health problems than never married and married. Others |
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Children at risk |
Children in single parent families face greater academic challenges Those with greater income tho have more normative development - more likely to start work earlier |
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Single parents |
Less likely to be emotionally supportive. Harsher discipline and less supervision. - stress, demands, lower education level - Parental hostility linked w relationship and school problems |
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Children from single parent family likely to: |
Leave home earlier Enter romantic partnerships at an earlier age Experience divorce Have a child as teens |
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The teen mother |
A woman who has her first birth under age 20 2010: just 4% of all Canadian births - more common among aboriginal families than rest of Canadian pop. (2009 20% were teen births in nunavut) - number of single moms increasing |
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Predictors of teen pregnancy |
Growing up in poverty Growing up in lone parent or stepfamily Academic difficulties Sexual and physical abuse Family history of teen pregnancy - teenage girls. Exposed to sexual abuse are twice as likely to become. Pregnant - physical abuse = 1.5 times more likely |
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Teen mother disadvantages |
Not finished growing physically Have low levels of educational attainment Likely to live in poverty |
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The single father |
Increasing 2011: 1 in 5 single parents men. Mothers are less frequently being awarded custody - men becoming single parents in middle and late years of cycle, few are in teens or 20s. Children of lone fathers older |
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Single father |
Sole economic support Spend less time caring for children than single mothers Children have more externalizing behaviors Spend more time caring than Married fathers Single mothers are less involved in children's school activities than married mothers |
