A8- The Campaign

The Single Family

Single –Parent families are with children under

the age of 18 headed by a parent who is

widowed or divorced and not remarried ,or

by a parent who has never been married .

One out of every two children in the United States will live in a single –Parent family at some time before they reach the age of 18 ,in 2002 more than 20 million children live in a single Mother household ,this is more than one –fourth of the children in the Untied States .

The most common type of single-parent family is a Mother and her biological children .

 Single –parent families face special

challenges

 Economic

 Lack of Support

 Child Care

Dealing with the other Parent

 Task Overload

 Job Hours

 School

 Low levels of Educational achievement

 Twice as likely to drop out of school

More likely to become teen parents

 Less supervised by adults

More conflict with their parents

More frequently to use drugs and alcohol

 Twice as likely to go to jail

 more likely to Join a gang

 more likely to Commit suicide

 The child grow up knowing both parents

 The income is greater

 The support of both parents

 Better health

Well being

More likely to go to college

 Less likely to be a teen parent

 Less likely to go to jail

Or join a gang

There are a lote of resource for Single parents

 Snap

Hud

Grants for school

 Agencies that help with lights ,water and gas bills

 Childcare programs

 Parenting groups

Medicaid

 Those are just some resource it can change depending on the State

AS time go on More and more children are

being raise in a Single parent home ,The

Mothers are taking charge and becoming

more educated getting better jobs and

moving in better areas for their family .In

the near future you will see more single

homes not only mothers but fathers as well

.The rise of divorce

 Encyclopedia of Children’s Health :Infancy through Adolescence (n.d)Retrieved February 07,2016 from http//www.healthofchildren.com/

 The effects of being a single mother (n.d)

 Retrieved February 07,2016 from http/www.effects .of.being.a.single.parent.online 4.date/effects of beingasinglemother.aspx

 FAMILY facts .org.(n.d)Retrieved February 07,2016 from http//www.familyfacts.org/charts/325/singlemo ther-families –make-up –half-all-households –in - poverty