In this next section of this paper we will be addressing the ways of a single parent household where the mother is the head of the household. It is a lot more common to see a single mother than it is to see a single father. While it is a lot harder to find information on single fathers households according to Douglas B. Downey the author of The School Performance of Children From Single-Mother and Single-Father Families: Economic and Interpersonal Deprivation?, "In 1980 there was just about 616,000 households where the father was the single parent and the mother was not living in the residence with children under the age of 18". This then jumped up to 1,068,000 by the end of that same year. In the 1960 's it was grantee that if a woman
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While there is not much studies out in the world about how father headed households and it is not all positive things. Featherman and Hauser research has showed in there study Opportunity and change, has showed that fathers are less competent than the single mothers and that children who live with their father complete one year less than children with their mothers (Downey, 1994). This was compared to a single mother parent household. It is also said that a father has a more harmful effect on child than the mother will. While Featherman and Hauser are looking at this data in a whole for all fathers and since there is not a lot of information I could only imagine that while the sample of the large enough it still was not that large. Another issue with this study is that it was done in 1978 while a father being the single parent was being normal during this time taking care of children still always depended on the women so a men would not know what to take care of a …show more content…
For a child to have healthy growth they need the social skills and involvement in their life. For a child in a two parent household the child will look to both parents but in a single parent household the parent is the only one to make sure the child learns the social involvement that they need. According to the authors of Stress, Social support and depression in Single and Married mother, single parent are a serious disadvantage because after many of healthy studies have shown that single parents are loners and have been associated with health consequences. With that being said a mother that really involved with her children but does not live in the same house hold could beat these outs. She would have to have to stay involved with going to events with her child, like school functions like plays or even doing Parent- Teacher Organization (PTOs) or other school functions, religious functions, social events like dances if the child is on the dance be involved with. This would be I big involvement for a parent, because most of the time when the child is old enough than the common thing to do is drop that child off and come back after the lesson but when there is only one parent and the other parent is trying to be involved to make a difference in that child life than staying at the activity and being there will not only create a beyond but it will help the child understand that a non-residential parent
While there is not much studies out in the world about how father headed households and it is not all positive things. Featherman and Hauser research has showed in there study Opportunity and change, has showed that fathers are less competent than the single mothers and that children who live with their father complete one year less than children with their mothers (Downey, 1994). This was compared to a single mother parent household. It is also said that a father has a more harmful effect on child than the mother will. While Featherman and Hauser are looking at this data in a whole for all fathers and since there is not a lot of information I could only imagine that while the sample of the large enough it still was not that large. Another issue with this study is that it was done in 1978 while a father being the single parent was being normal during this time taking care of children still always depended on the women so a men would not know what to take care of a …show more content…
For a child to have healthy growth they need the social skills and involvement in their life. For a child in a two parent household the child will look to both parents but in a single parent household the parent is the only one to make sure the child learns the social involvement that they need. According to the authors of Stress, Social support and depression in Single and Married mother, single parent are a serious disadvantage because after many of healthy studies have shown that single parents are loners and have been associated with health consequences. With that being said a mother that really involved with her children but does not live in the same house hold could beat these outs. She would have to have to stay involved with going to events with her child, like school functions like plays or even doing Parent- Teacher Organization (PTOs) or other school functions, religious functions, social events like dances if the child is on the dance be involved with. This would be I big involvement for a parent, because most of the time when the child is old enough than the common thing to do is drop that child off and come back after the lesson but when there is only one parent and the other parent is trying to be involved to make a difference in that child life than staying at the activity and being there will not only create a beyond but it will help the child understand that a non-residential parent