Lone parents

Question 1

Crow and Hardy

Answer 1

Prefer definition of lone parent household instead-children can live in two separate lone parent households

Question 2

Types of lone parents

Answer 2

Divorce/separation 
Death
Desertion 
Adoption 
Child is product of rape

1/4 children live in lone parent family

Question 3

Why more single parents?

Answer 3

Increasing divorce rates 
Cohabitation break up
Increase in non-cohabiting, never married mothers 
Changing social attitudes 
Greater economic independence of women

Question 4

New Right

Answer 4

Lone parent families fail to provide adequate socialisation

Murray-rise of unmarried lone mothers partly been caused by over generous welfare state, provides excessive benefits for unmarried mothers, creates “dependency culture”

Question 5

Brenda Arnold

Answer 5

Divorce laws undermine long-term marriage, heterosexual marriage no longer superior (Same Sex Marriage Act) and married couples pay more tax than non-married dual-earners

Question 6

Ford and Millar

Critique

Answer 6

Perverse incentives argument flawed, given the quality of life of many lone parents

Question 7

Feminist View

Answer 7

Most lone parents are female, indicates women are increasingly feeling free to choose a different family form in which they are free from make domination

Question 8

Graham

Answer 8

Many single mothers welcome this independence and the opportunity to take control over their own lives