Single Parenting

Growing a parent and one child by a single parent constitutes a rapidly growing population. In the past, one parenting was considered a broken system, and today these units provide a viable alternative to nuclear families (Kleist, 1999, p. 1). In researching the characteristics of a single parent who raises a healthy child, I will explain some of the problems unique to child rearing and review effective positive parenting skills. Social development is not an individual person alone.

The number of single parent families led by single mother and single father is increasing. In 1970 there was a single parent of 3 million, 393,000 people, and in 2006 there were 10 million single parents and 2.3 million single parents (US Census Bureau, 2005). More than 60% of children in America are living their lives in their own parent families (Simmons and O'Connell, 2003). These families have many of the same problems with various families, such as the demand for high quality daycare, but there are some unique problems in a single parent household. Parents usually share responsibility and supervision for their children and encourage and train as necessary. If there is only one parent, that parent must be the only economical and child - rearing resource and must be expanded to cover both areas.

Compared to 40 to 50 years ago, a single parent family is common in today's world. A single parent is the parent of one or more children who are not living with any other parent of any child. The proportion of children living with their parents has declined for many ethnic groups and ethnic groups over the years. Children of a single parent family generally know that they are worse than those of their parents who have two parents. Today's single parent