Academic Achievement of Children in Single Parent Homes

"Roberta, you will never enter Princeton!" My uncle said I laughed when I got out of the car. I did not expect these words to be heard from my favorite uncle. When he told me about it, my heart had a lot of emotions. At that moment, I got angry with him and myself. Where is confidence in me and my ability? This person is my uncle, it must be my support system. My uncle works for the government as a journalist.

For some time, researchers have been interested in the intellectual function and academic achievement of a single parent's child. Among them, there is a fairly consistent view that children living alone in their parents house have bad grades in various studies than children in their parent families. Children of a single parent family usually give a lower score in the standardized competency test than the parents of their parents' families. However, the extent of the difference is very small (1 to 7 IQ points, less than 1 year of achievement, and about three quarters of schools completed) (Lewis 1999). In a study by Guidubaldi, Perry, and Cleminshaw (1984) teachers reported that the dependence, destructiveness, and unwelcome degree of divorced children to colleagues have increased significantly. There is a high possibility of repeating school grades, IQ score is low.

Children who grew up in a single parent family face results that are not ideal compared to colleagues in traditional parent families. These results include a decline in academic performance and an increase in the incidence of behavioral problems. It is wrong, however, to conclude that this negative result is a direct result of the number of parents in the family, or from time to time, suggests that the child does not have a father's image. Conversely, children are adversely affected by coexistence with a single parent family organization (eg, economic disadvantage, housing instability, and parent conflict) or the consequences of such arrangements (eg parental education interruption) I will. This situation is not consistent in the life of all single parent families