1. Perspectives on One Parent Families
A significant percentage of one parent families (with the majority of them being single mothers) have simply chosen never to marry. ... In an interesting journal article based on several studies done with one parent families, Paul Amato (2005) states that "Many of these deficits in parenting [less emotionally supportive, have fewer rules, inconsistent disciplining, less supervision and more conflict with children] presumably result from struggling to make ends meet with limited financial resources and trying to raise children without the help of the other biological parent" (Amato, 2...
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