3.7 Lone Parenthood Flashcards
What year did one parent families appear on official documents?
1960’s
‘resilience and inventiveness as well as unrelieved responsibilities and frustrations in the face of adverse economic and social processes of marginalisation’
Hardey and Crow 1991
What were the statistics for single parent families in 1971 and 2011?
1971 - 8%
2011 - 26%
What did Allan and Crow 2001 think about the reason for an increase in lone parent families?
Increase in marital breakdown and secondly a rise n births to unmarried women. - acceptance of family diversity.
Brown 1995 (decline of shotgun weddings)
- decline of shotgun weddings and growing social acceptance of cohabitation.
Morgan 1994 (changing relationship between men and women)
Gillies 2003 - explored the changing family relationships which stresses the changing dynamics of family intimacy through changing ethics of friendships, negotiation and disclosure.
New Right view on lone parent families
Murray 1990 argues that generous welfare benefits encourage women to have children they could not otherwise support.
They blame lone parent families for: juvenile crime, rising drug abuse, educational failure of children and general breakdown of society.
Policies introduced to reduce impact of lone parents
Child Support Act 1991 now known as Child Maintenance Service 2013
30hrs of free childcare
Feminists view of the New Right perspective on lone families
Silva 1996 - media fueled public rants are an attempt to force women back into the traditional roles of housewife and homemaker.
Suggests attacks are patriarchal.
Reasons why lone parents are usually headed by a mother
Societal norms- women are traditionally seen as the primary caregivers.
Legal factors- courts often favor mothers in custody battles, especially for younger children.
Economic factors- fathers maybe more financially capable of providing child support rather than taking on the full time responsibility of raising a child.
