Ticheu Beatrice Challenges Faced by Single Mothers Being a single mother is not easy but it’s also very challenging. Nowadays, there are about hundreds of single mothers who have to work hard to take care of their families. For some it is a painful experience, but for others it is different. Perhaps some challenges that many single mothers face today include responsibility, and finance. To begin with, responsibility plays a big role in single mother’s life.
The sole provider in a single parent home often does not have the ability to work a full time job or rather obtain a job with a high paying salary. Risman states, “Women who become single mothers are especially likely to have inadequate wages… because the shortage of publicly subsidized child care makes it difficult for them to work full time.” Although single parent households with the provider working full time has a much higher chance of not living in poverty, working full-time, as Thompson states in her article, leaves less time to spend with your child. This leads to my next point. Financial stress can also lead to improper child development, education, and social exposure. To give a hypothetical example,
everest college | Accounts of Being A Single Parent | Struggles and Hardships to Being A Single parent | | Adelina Vega | 6/8/2013 | This essay is describing how life as a single parent is a struggle and it has its ups and downs and many sacrifices that have to be made when you’re doing it alone. This essay is to talk about the hardships I have gone through with being a single parent. | I never expected to become a single parent so early in my son’s life. I guess things happen in your life for a reason. You just aren’t prepared for it when the rug gets pulled from beneath your feet.
Negative Effects of Low-SES Parenting Children are at a disadvantage when they are parented by individuals of low-socioeconomic status. Low-socioeconomic parents of today are preoccupied with what resources they lack such as food, clothing and shelter that they do not pay close enough attention to their children's academic and behavioral welfare. In a nationwide study of American kindergarten children, 36% of parents in the lowest-income quintile read to their children on a daily basis, compared with 62% of parents from the highest-income quintile (Coley, 2002).These hardships create stress for the parents and are in turn reflected in their parenting. Socially many of the children who are residents of a lower income area seem to be categorized as unfit for greater academic achievement. This pessimistic view on the abilities of low socioeconomic income youth continues to influence their lack of academic performance.
Abstract Research and Census indicates that single parents experience more stress due to economic, social and financial burdens, compared to traditional parents which included both parents. Many reviews indicate that stress has a major impact on the development of the single parent’s children. However, there are mixed views on the impact of single parent families and child development, coupled with the ability to effectively be a positive or negative role model. The purpose of writing this paper is to see whether single parent families provide adequate support and education, in spite of the stress linked to their households. Whether or not a parent is a positive or negative role model in a child’s life, often depends on the nurturing and nurturing of the individual.
A married couple could divide those responsibilities and schedule their work hours so that the kids hardly spend time alone. It will be easier to guide them in a positive direction. Poverty is a major factor that negatively affects the households. Both the parents and the kids will have a much more stressful life and that stress will reflect upon their performance at work and at school. An education costs money and a single parent with only one source of income plus all the other payments will definitely cause problems.
If a police officer is married and has children this could cause problems within the family because he or she will not be able to promise to be at every one of their child's sporting events or school plays (Gil 1). Organizational stress can also result from the bias of one's ethnic, racial, or gender background. Many officers that were surveyed admitted to this being the most stressful. Women in particular have more of this type of stress than a male because becoming a police officer
Single parent families have always had it harder than regular unbroken families. They don’t have the advantage of a better income or lifestyle, more opportunities, and the emotional and psychological comfort and stability normal, two parent families have. In fact, the damage that can be done to a child of a single parent family can be very serious and have a long-term effect on the child. It can lead to downfalls for the child, or it can be the very opposite. Either way, the psychological effects can be different in single parent families than in two parent families.
(Wolf) There are many factors attributed to single parent households including divorce, death of a parent or spouse, or incarceration. All of these factors can impact the psychological and development well being of the children in these families especially when compared to children from a two parent household. Do children adjust better when two parents are present? Single parents often play the role of both parents in many ways. They often work multiple jobs leaving little or no time to spend with their family.
Questions started racing through my mind as to what I did wrong: should I have stayed married, gotten remarried so my son could live in a two-parent household, along with many other questions. This resulted in a very scary and trying time for me. I feel there are things that need to be offered to single parents. Starting with several important elements: first being the different ways one becomes a single parent and a brief definition, second being a list of effects single-parenting has on children, functioning in a single-parent family, and lastly what truly matters to children when being raised by a single-parent. After researching the ways one becomes a single-parent it became very clear this is common knowledge; however, it needs to be expressed in order for those to understand the effects of single-parenting on children.