Stepfamilies and lone parent households

Question 1

What are the stats for lone parent families?

Answer 1

MAke up 24% of all families
90% mothers
Never married women take up the population
2x to be in poverty

Question 2

Reasons for increase in lone parent households?

Answer 2

Increases in separation, divroce, nevermarried women

decline in stigma to birth outside marriage

Question 3

Why are they female headed?

Answer 3

“unrutin” - men are less willing to give up work for childcare
Mothers single by choice
Renvoize - professional women could spport children without fathers
Cashmore - women able to rely on benefits

Question 4

Describe welfare state and poverty

Answer 4

Charles Murray believes the risk in lone parenthood is due to overgenouse welfare state
“perverse incentive” and “dependency culture”
advocates abolition of welfare

Question 5

What are the criticisms of Murray?

Answer 5

60% lone parent unemployed
lac of affordable childcare
women earn less than men
fathers fail to pay maintenance

Question 6

Describe step famliies

Answer 6

account for over 10% of all gfamilies

86% has child from womens previous, 11% men, % both

Question 7

What did Ferrin and Smith say about stepfamilies?

Answer 7

similar to first families just greater poverty

What

Question 8

What did Allan and Crow say about stepfamilies?

Answer 8

conflict regarding divided loyalities and contact with non residential parent

Question 9

What did Ribbens McCarhty et al say abobut stepfamilies?

Answer 9

theres no model for stepfamily - stepfamilies

tensions that exist aren’t too dissimilar to first families

Question 10

Describe the patterns in stepfamilies

Answer 10

Increase in number of single parents increases opportunitires
Children more likely to be with mother
Fathers have to pay matintenance from previous relationships
Lack of norms with how to act in types of families