Single Parent Family Types

There are three basic different types of fathers in the world. The focus of this paper is to look at the fathers in the world who are more than just a child support check they help to where the child does not suffer any sociological or psychology damage because the father is not living in the household. This father would be in the Involved Father category. They are part of their children’s lives in every aspect. According to Dyer, Day, Harper (2014), there are three different parts that a father needs to be involved in, warmth and responsiveness, positive engagement activities, and lastly control (pp.516). While many fathers are being labeled as absent, they actually are an active part of their children lives and contribute to their children …show more content…
Downey the author of The School Performance of Children From Single-Mother and Single-Father Families: Economic and Interpersonal Deprivation?, says that children who are in single parent families where the father is head of the house does poorer than a student who has a two-parent household. Downey also states that while this trend is starting to grow, an interest in education, a single father household the father focus more on the adjustment not …show more content…
The dictionary 's meaning of Co-parenting is sharing the duties of parenting (a child). Another meaning of co-parenting is from Terry Arendell the author of Co-Parenting: A Review of the Literature, "father presence in the lives of children and their mothers, no matter how limited the parental involvement." So they will have to make the decision on fashion on how they are suppose dress and what type of discipline are going to use and everything that will go on with that so the child will not get over on one