Change Of Perspective On Single Parent Mother

Looking back at history, women’s role in the family has remained unchanged till last century. In the early times, women’s most significant profession was that of wifehood and motherhood and a “little more than a slave of her husband”(1). They were viewed as a creative

In today’s society, most families consist of both parents working and with that comes the conflict of shared childcare, nurturing and shared household responsibility. Since the day of old, it was and always has been the mothers’ responsibility to care for the child and the home. To cook, clean, feed the children and attend to the husband's needs. Of course, this concept also depending on the culture of which the couple was brought up on (Kaakinen, Coehlo, Steele, Tabacco, & Harmon Hanson, 2015).

Society is patriarchal and male domination is a factor in everything, including the family setting. In the past, the father was seen as the authority figure and disciplinarian while the mother's job was to cook and clean. This is visible in advertising where the proper woman is wife and mother, cleaning house in heels and pearls while cooking a

The belief that men are not capable of taking care of a child is now being challenged. Fathers are now taking on a more active role in their child’s life by allowing their wives to peruse her career goals while they stay at home with the children. Women are now left with the task of being the family’s primary breadwinners. As both step outside their expected gender roles the challenge of gender stereotypes found in families have been questioned.

Through my research, I found that a single mom on average could not sustain herself for a year of the child’s life but an average single dad with could sustain himself through a year of the child’s life. I will talk about how the salary difference between men and women changes things. I will first show the calculations of the costs of having a baby and living for a year and deducting them from the salary, then an interview with my mother about how she had a stable job and couldn't support herself, then why women have a harder time supporting themselves compared to men. Overall you will see why single dads can support themselves and why single moms

“Single mothers face inexplicable social and religious challenges… due to the cultural stereotype and religious orientation” (Essien). Different religions and culture have their own set of beliefs and standards. However, this provides a reason behind the discrimination towards single parents, specifically, single mothers. “Motherhood is crucial to female identity, and women are perceived as natural reproducers, nurturers, mothers and wives… divorced and abandoned single mothers are sexually, economically and socially vulnerable” (Jordal). Diversion is seen as something is not an option for them. Therefore, single mothers are viewed as a disappointment to the society. Which created more opportunity for the discrimination to

In our society, we carry an ideological assumption that a “normal” family consists of the man working to provide for the family and the women takes on the role of stay-at-home mom (Dow 1992).

In many cases children of single parents were often left at orphanages or simply abandoned to the streets. Also, in child custody cases, women, rather than men, were given control of their children because women were considered natural child caregivers. In the 1800s there were benefits for single parents like we have today. Lone mothers and the elderly received some of the biggest handouts. If, before 1834, a single mother wanted to claim poor relief all she had to do was swear on the descendant of of her child’s father under oath. She would then receive the money and the officials would try and get money and resources from the

It was during this time that men began looking for work outside of the local area of farms, leaving women behind to manage the house. This brought about a change due to the roles men took as wage earners and women became the nurturer. Despite some vagueness of the Best Interests of the Child concept, it has been beneficial in respecting parents’ rights who may have be living in nontraditional parenting arrangements, are homosexual or have severe physical disabilities. Societal changes influenced legal custodial arrangements to increase greater contact between fathers and their children to decrease the negative psychological effects of divorce, such as feeling abandoned due to inadequate time with the noncustodial parent

In her essay, she informs us about how the extra work towards mothers is affecting them. She shows studies and her own observations of over 52 couples that prove this is becoming a problem in women and families leading to more workload, depression, divorce and less interest in sex. She compares the

More and more women are becoming single parents and raising their children on their own without the help of the father or of any man. Lately, and for several years, it is more common for women to be doing jobs for “men”. ( Kaiser, Spalding) Women who have been left by a male figure in their lives are very more likely to become independent and do as they need to survive. This was unheard of in the late 1800s and early 1900s, as said several times before, women do as men say and they are expected to do what they are told and live by a code. The morals of the realism and modernism era are unheard of in today's world. Women, and even men, either get married and have children, have children and don’t get married, or do neither and live their lives that way. Women have been acting this way for years, but is it really their fault? The leadership it takes for a woman to be on her own, and all the negativity that comes with being a woman who does what she feels is the right thing to do or what she wants to do, is absurd. (Bongiorno, Bain,

“Analysis suggests two main ways in which lone mothers were constructed and disciplined as Other:

Growing up is scary, life is hard, and nobody tells you how to make tough decisions. If you're lucky enough though you will be blessed with a person in your life that will never leave your side and will be there to give you a hug at the end of one of those days life puts you on your rear end. Amy Hanger, my mother, is that person in my life; and that is why she is the person who has influenced my life in so many ways the 18 years I have been alive.

Until now the discussion has taken into account factors that are not in a straight connection with the family, however, the family should not be forgotten. The structure of families and the values compined to it have a great impact on women's social position. As already stated, the decades after the war was a time of social and cultural transformation. The social structures changed, and so did the attitudes towards the traditional values. The social focus shifted from national survival to women, children and welfare. due to the medical adventages and better healthcare child mortality sank. The size of families decreased when people moved from the country side to the cities. These turns changes woman's position in the society and permitted a new way of social influencing and participation. In 1970s the amounth of divorces grew drastically and the traditional family model got competitors. The idea of a single-parent, though mostly formed of mother and children rather than of father and children, was not alien anymore. (Hobsbawm, 1995) The variety in the family models offered different positions for women. No longer they were only either girls, wifes or mothers, but also students, emplyees and

Children are supremely important asset and the nation’s future lives in their proper development. An investment in children is indeed an investment in nation’s future. A healthy and educated child of today is the active and intelligent citizen of tomorrow. A single child is a person with no siblings either biological or adopted. The single child faces more psychological and psycho social problems as compared to those have siblings. Generally says only child as spoilt and selfish kids. Due to less social interaction these children face problems in expressing themselves and have an introvert nature. This leads to an uncomfortable situation for the child emotional. The study aims to understand the psychosocial problems faced by single child. This study highlighted the psychological problems, social problems, educational problems, relationship with society, and life adjustment problems of single child. The descriptive design was used and the sampling method was convenience sampling. The frequency table and diagrams was used for analysis. The suggestions were given to the parents in order to make the single child free from psycho social problems and to improve the self esteem and self confidence.