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As the number of children growing up in single-parent households has risen over the last one hundred years, [1] [2] the possible effects of living arrangements has become more impactful in children's schooling, as well as other aspects of their lives, including health and work.
A single parent is a person who has a child or children but does not have a spouse or live-in partner to assist in the upbringing or support of the child. Reasons for becoming a single parent include death, divorce, break-up, abandonment, becoming widowed, domestic violence, rape, childbirth by a single person or single-person adoption.
Single mothers are one of the poorest populations, many of them vulnerable to homelessness. In the United States, nearly half (45%) of single mothers and their children live below the poverty line, also referred to as the poverty threshold. [15] [21] They lack the financial resources to support their children when the birth father is unresponsive.
Monique Doughty, 36, was worried about being a single mother. Another pregnant single mom changed her perspective, and they coparented together.
As of 2020, there are 10.7 million single parent households in the U.S. and 80.5% of them are headed by single mothers. Single mothers have also seen a decrease in their income over the past ...
"To be able to become a mother, that's fulfilling in itself. I don't need anything else," one single mom by choice says.
The psychodynamic approach suggests that for a child to develop a "normal" gender identity, they will have to be raised in a conventional family where there is a father and a mother. Freud believed that being parented by a single mother could confuse the child's identity or lead them to become homosexual. [17]
When I watched "Gilmore Girls" as a single mom I felt inspired by Lorelai Gilmore's parenting.. In many ways, the show became my guide for being a young single parent. I admire Lorelai's close ...