What positive affects have come from What positive affects have come from single parenting on the family single parenting on the family

institution?institution?

What positive affects have come from What positive affects have come from single parenting on the family single parenting on the family

institution?institution?•Because single parenting is so Because single parenting is so hard, the parent is forced to get hard, the parent is forced to get the job done! the job done!

•Single parents are more determined to raise their Single parents are more determined to raise their children than those in a nuclear family children than those in a nuclear family

- In the nuclear family sometimes one parent - In the nuclear family sometimes one parent may not pull their own weight causing a bad may not pull their own weight causing a bad influence on the kidsinfluence on the kids

•Single Parents are often more Single Parents are often more caring because there isn’t a second caring because there isn’t a second role modelrole model

What negative affects have come What negative affects have come from single parenting on the family from single parenting on the family

institution? institution?

What negative affects have come What negative affects have come from single parenting on the family from single parenting on the family

institution? institution? • Single parent children often lack Single parent children often lack respectable role modelsrespectable role models

•Single parent children often are Single parent children often are neglectedneglected

•Single parent children are often Single parent children are often faced with more stress, depression, faced with more stress, depression, and abuseand abuse •Those children with single parents are Those children with single parents are

more likely to do poorly in school and have more likely to do poorly in school and have peer relation problemspeer relation problems

•There is a direct correlation between There is a direct correlation between single parenting and children who do single parenting and children who do drugs, crime, and other illegal behaviordrugs, crime, and other illegal behavior

What changes have come from single What changes have come from single parenting in the family institution? parenting in the family institution?

What changes have come from single What changes have come from single parenting in the family institution? parenting in the family institution?

•The Nuclear Family with the The Nuclear Family with the breadwinner/homemaker scenario seems to breadwinner/homemaker scenario seems to have disappearedhave disappeared•Single families have become more and more Single families have become more and more common as more than 30% of families have a common as more than 30% of families have a single parent. single parent.

•A lot of public aide has been given to A lot of public aide has been given to families in poverty and many of those families in poverty and many of those families in poverty are single parentsfamilies in poverty are single parents•There has been an increase in government There has been an increase in government funded programs to help single parents get funded programs to help single parents get out of povertyout of poverty

-Such programs include:Welfare to Work, -Such programs include:Welfare to Work, Medicare, and Social Security Medicare, and Social Security

Predictions for single parenting and Predictions for single parenting and the future of the American Family the future of the American Family Predictions for single parenting and Predictions for single parenting and

the future of the American Family the future of the American Family

•Divorce rates are at a steady Divorce rates are at a steady rate so single parenting will stay rate so single parenting will stay at a steady rateat a steady rate•The attitude of family values The attitude of family values has changed and is always has changed and is always changing changing •Out of wedlock births has been on a rise and there Out of wedlock births has been on a rise and there is a strong correlation between single parents and is a strong correlation between single parents and out of wedlock birthsout of wedlock births

•Lately it has been a lot easier to get Lately it has been a lot easier to get a divorce than in past years a divorce than in past years