1.2 Lone Parent Families

Question 1

Lone parent families make up what percent of all families?

Answer 1

24%

Question 2

What percent of single parent families are headed by a lone mother?

Answer 2

90%

Question 3

Until the 1990s who were the biggest group of lone mothers?

Answer 3

Divorced women

Question 4

From the 1990s who have become the biggest group of lone mothers?

Answer 4

Single women

Question 5

A child living with a lone parent is how much more likely to be in poverty?

Answer 5

2x

Question 6

The increase in lone parent families is partially due to the increase in what?

Answer 6

Divorce and increase in never married women having children

Question 7

Part of the increase in never married women having children is the declining what?

Answer 7

Stigma surrounding birth outside marriage

Question 8

Some would still criticise single mothers for not fitting the ideology of what?

Answer 8

The nuclear family

Question 9

Lone parents tend to be female due to the belief women are suited for what role?

Answer 9

Caring expressive role meaning divorce courts usually give custody to mothers

Question 10

Lone parents tend to be female as men are less willing to do what?

Answer 10

Give up work and look after children

Question 11

Cashmore - some working class mothers chose to live on benefits without a partner often because they experienced what?

Answer 11

Abuse

Question 12

Feminism - the greater opportunities for women have encouraged increase in what?

Answer 12

The number of never married lone mothers

Question 13

Murray sees the growth of lone parent families as a result of what?

Answer 13

Overgenerous benefits encouraging culture of dependency with lone mothers married to the state

Question 14

Murray - a perverse incentive has been created that rewards what?

Answer 14

Irresponsible behaviour such as having children without being able to provide for them

Question 15

Murray - in this dependency culture people assume the state will do what?

Answer 15

Support them and their children

Question 16

Murray advocated the abolition of what?

Answer 16

Welfare benefits to reduce dependency culture

Question 17

Welfare benefits are not generous as lone parent families are more likely to be what?

Answer 17

In poverty

Question 18

Why are lone parent families more likely to be in poverty?

Answer 18

Lack of childcare preventing lone parents from working
Inadequate benefits
Failure of fathers to pay