Single-parent Households

Single-parent Households

Introduction

An unprecedented but unequivocal increase in single parenting homes presents a growing challenge for the American nation as recent studies have associated the trend with a horde of social and familial problems. This paper explains the significance of the issue of single parenting households, the primary factors that have led to their increase, and its adverse effects on families, communities and generations.

Discussion

The term 'single parent families' covers all those homes in which either the mother or the father looks after the children rather than both of them caring for them together while living under one roof (Yarber & Sharp, ...