Single Parent Families

Introduction A single parent is an uncoupled individual who shoulders most or all of the day-to-day responsibilities for raising a child or children. Single-parent families can be defined as families where a parent lives with dependent children, either alone or in a larger household, without a spouse or partner. A mother is more often the primary caregiver in a single-parent family structure. There are many factors that causes people become a single parent. First and foremost, death of a partner was a major cause of single parenting. For example, a husband who on duty in overseas may meet disaster like flood, earthquake and others that lead to death and cause his wife become a single parent to raise up their child or children …show more content…
This is because of the children from broken families are unlike the normal children who have both father and mother to support and guide them. Children from single-parent families are also easier to have low self-esteem. For instance, children being influenced easily by others, feeling themselves are weak and incompetent, feeling themselves are not valued by others and so on. Single parent families do not have security features. Therefore, it may cause indirect negative impacts on the children which could leading them to failure, disappointment, and violent action. This negative impact may result from economic problems. At last, the children may forced to drop out of school and search for jobs to support their families. Moreover, children from single-parent families will lack of time to hang out with friends or playing together. This is because, the child might be asked for help from their parent to do housework. If, the parents are hostile towards one another, this may cause child has feeling that they must ‘pick sides’. For example, when parents are in quarrel, parents might ask their child to choose one of them to be with …show more content…
Some organisation will provides single parents some information related to individual, family and work , which may help to improve their lifestyle. The external support system will also help single parents to select their own parenting style which is the best to fit their family and also improved their self-esteem and financial status. The government also will provide some financial to those single parents which have financial problems , such as government will give the single parent some financial every month or give the children some stationery for them can continue study and become a more responsible people to take care their family