SINGLE PARENT AND CHILD

The Effect of Stress on Single Parent and Child



Abstract

This paper forces on the effect of stress on relationship between the single parent and a child. Here the focus is on the quality of the parenting a child receives when the single parent are under stress and what effect children established and discover. Moreover, the single parent children are at a higher risk of poverty and on average single mothers have poorer health. Beside this stress also generate health and illness among single parent. Single parents undergo with emotions such as being alone and isolation.

The Effect of Stress on Single Parent and Child

Introduction

Children are the source of joy, love and gifts to our lives; and the strongest bond in the world no deeper than mother and child relationship. This relationship suffer when a matrimony disagreement between a husband and wife take place and problems start creating which end with the great stress on the single parent.

Stress is basically what we experience through a complex relationship between external forces in the environment (stressors) and our perceived ability to adapt to them (Stowell, R. 2007). It is stressful no wonder to being a single parent. It is a difficult task which results in terrible headache. However, it is hard but rewarding to being a single parent. Excessive stress is experienced by the single mothers. Single parents suffer with emotions such as being alone and segregation. Stress and nervousness is created of being frustrated single parent that can be harmful to you and your children. There is a strong relationship between single parent depression and negative child outcomes. Mothers under the enormous stress, their children exposed to cognitions, behaviors, and affect associated with depression. The greatest challenge single parent faced which adversely ruin a mother-child relationship is economical.

This research focuses on the relationship of a single parent and a child whose relationship is the effect when a single parent faces stress caused by the financial and social needs. Stress also create health and illness problem among single-parent household. Lack of spouses has an adverse effect on the child development and difficulty in providing appropriate disciplines and manner. The live of a single mother is challenging with priorities of making money and at the same time providing caring services for their children (Craig, 2005).

Literature Review

Stress, Social Support and Depression an Single and Married Mothers

This article reflects stress and social support effect on the relationship between single-parent depression and status. This leads to single parenthood that comprises of divorce, widowhood children through matrimony and partition. According to many researchers propose that single mothers undergo excessively higher rates of psychiatric illness and physical illness than the married mothers. There are certain problems arising in understanding the factors that arbitrate the relationship between stingle-parent status and psychological. However, life circumstances of single mothers are more into elevated rates of depression compared to the married women. The possible factors on stressors such as childhood abuse, child traumas and chronic strains which associated with scarcity ...