Children and Families-Research Report of Interview

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Children and families report on single parent families In this report I will conduct a critical investigation on the experiences of families and children in lone parent households. Within this report I will also like to focus on the effect that a lone parent family has on children's school performance and peer relations. I chose this topic because I feel that this is very relevant topic as lone parent families are increasing as the years go by. As a result this is issues that young children face every day within lone parent families. Today we see all types of lone parent families; only a mother and children, only a father and children also grandparents raising their grandchildren. From this I want to investigate what life is like for a child living in a lone parent family and if this has effects on a young child’s development, relationships with their peers and also the amount of time a lone parent gets to spend with their child. This topic is relevant to early childhood studies, as the family a child grows up in is very important and being a single parent, this lone parent is the child’s first educator a source that leads to how a child develops and their well being. Within my report I will firstly carry out a relevant literature review on my chosen topic. For this report I conducted a interview with a 20 year old boy who experienced all of his early childhood in a lone parent family. From this interview I will explain the methods that I used for this investigation, also outlining the ethical issues involved in my critical investigation, and how I over come them. In addition I will give a summary of my findings and then have a discussion about the finding in relation to my review literature. Literature review Single parent families is no longer viewed as non traditional family., is type of family structure is all around us and occur all over the

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