Lone Mothers Sociology

Demographically, over 90% of the participants strongly agreed that fatherhood is crucial in our society. A little over 47% of fathers, that encouragement from the mothers of their children matters because of the obstacles they faced with finance, and their duties on the job. The final results of marital status statistics is over 80% married fathers, nine percent divorced, and six percent never married. One surprising statistic was 90% cohabitate with the mother and focal child (Glenn & Popenoe, 2006).

Western society’s heterosexism may be a means of class control; nuclear family lead to population growth through reproduction, which creates more workers available in the social safety net that allows the capitalist society to exist and the rich to thrive. This also creates more consumers in the market place. This goal perpetuates the idea that a women's purpose is primarily maternal; to be child bearing nurturers. It's not the idea that a lesbian couple cannot have families but that they can't produce humans without sperm that causes higher institutions to curb the acceptance of lesbianism

Due to problems arising out of bitter divorces, custody, and support battles fathers are ostracize out of their children’s life. Fathers are often looked at as the bad person when things go wrong and being the blame. Fathers are just as responsible for the child being born as the mother. Over the years fathers continue to fight for equal rights, mothers are looked at as the victims and often make false statements about the fathers to suit their own selfish needs. Accusations of sexual and child abuse by mothers of the noncustodial fathers are often found to be untrue.

Although single parenthood is on the rise in homes today, children still often have a father role in their life. It does not matter who the part is filled by: a father, uncle, older brother, grandfather, etc...; in almost all cases, those relationships between the father (figure) and child have lasting impacts on the youth the rest of their lives. In “I Wanted to Share My Father’s World,” Jimmy Carter tells the audience no matter the situation with a father, hold onto every moment.

Interestingly, statistics show that the mothers’ side of the family has a greater influence on gender orientation rather than the fathers. Also noted that over 65% of the candidates who identified as homosexual, their mothers either had none or only one live brother. (4) Comparing myself to this, my mother only has one brother!

Morin, Amanda. "Fathers Raising Daughters: The Unique Challenges of Single Fatherhood." Education.com | An Education & Child Development Site for Parents | Parenting & Educational Resource. N.p., n.d. Web. 5 May 2013.

Natalie interpolates that the accusations are false.  “The Age of Independence: Interracial Unions, Same-sex Unions, and the Changing American Family, the children of same-sex parents are academically and emotionally indistinguishable from those of heterosexual parents.” This support can make the biggest change for American families. Support can create a future where same sex families are able to start a life without discrimination and prejudice every step of the way. Therefore the family dynamic of a same sex couple is often the same as a nuclear family’s dynamic.

Lesbian mothers showed more intense desire to have a child and less traditional child-rearing goals compared to heterosexual parents. Moreover, lesbian social mother showed more affection and commitment in parenting than heterosexual fathers. This might be because of social stigma on lesbian parenting, lesbian parents invest more times and efforts on their parenting. The authors also suggested possible gender differences since lesbian biological mothers, lesbian social mothers, heterosexual mothers, who are all females, showed more commitment in parenting compared to heterosexual fathers, who are males. The authors also stated that lesbian biological mothers showed more structure setting and limit setting compared to lesbian social mothers possibly because of their responsibility from biological bonding with children.

Due to the discussion of the amendment of marriage equality in recent days, the issue whether lesbian and gay parenting (hereinafter lesbigay parenting) is allowed attracts the awareness again. People may support the same-sex marriage, but oppose lesbigay parenting. They worry that homosexual family structure has a negative impact on the children. Although there are some arguments against lesbigay parenting, there is some evidence that the family structure produces positive results.

Researchers MacCallum and Golombok (2004) argued that results from previous studies focusing on the loss of a father could not be generalized to children who grew up in households without a father from birth. This is where lesbian mothers and single mothers come into their research, because these families did not necessarily have an absentee father due to family disruption or realignment. For example, lesbians have used assisted conception and/or adoption. In earlier times, lesbian mothers weren’t always allowed these options. Many often lost their children due to the belief that children of homosexuals would have psychological and developmental problems, and at the time, many believed the children of homosexuals would be ostracized,

The article Divorced Mothers is based on a research done on divorced women and married women. The research was done to determine who has a higher sense of coherence. Which essentially means, who can cope with stress better between the married and divorced women. The research determined that women who were married had a higher sense of coherence, then their counterpart (divorced women). The research was done with a handful of women. Hence, the research was broad and did not factor in economic statues, age, location, and other crucial factors that may influence the study.

The report concludes that while the causes of poverty vary, there is evidence that discrimination and racism continue to play a critical role in contributing to ethnic minority poverty. On the other hand, there are other factors which are related to child poverty in ethnic groups like internal as well as external ones. Ethnic people in Britain have strong younger age profiles. Lone parenthood is very pivotal in black Caribbean families, which is one of the main reasons for child poverty. Other factors such as low level of female activities in financial sectors, concentration in low paid sectors, and the lowest level of qualifications are very crucial problems

Many people had many questions about gay parenting. For example if two males adopt a girl, how would they explain puberty to her? Keep in mind, that it’s two adult males adopting a girl, it’s not two children adopting a girl. They are adults, and most guys do know how a girls body works, hence most of them are educated. If they have trouble explaining puberty to their girl child, they do have friends that are girls that can help explain.They could get help from an aunt too, or anyone that’s a girl in the family. It’s not like its just the couple that has to help out their child. A child can get help from anyone. It’s not just gay couples that would have trouble explaining girl puberty to a girl child, there are also single parent guys that have a girl child.

This stress can sometimes lead to an increase in risky behaviors, such as drug and alcohol use. Not uncommon, the newly single parent may find that they are more easily depressed or experience an increase in anxiety. When parental abilities begin to break down the opportunity arises for the children to also dabble in risky behaviors. As stated in the International Encyclopedia of Marriage and Family, “children in single parent homes tend to have higher absentee reports and higher dropout rates”.

Deviance can occur in any society or home but is mostly connected and associated with broken homes. Children with single parents are believed to be at high risk of being delinquent. The reason delienquency is very likely to occur is because the child is either "motherless" or "fatherless", and this may currupt the personality of the child in many ways. This is argued may lead to a destructive delinquent future. "Bad" neighborhoods, where single parents reside often leads to delinquency as the social society that single parents often live in are surrounded by deviant behaviour. The main reason single parents tend to reside in estates and currupted areas is they cant work because they have. Single parents tend not to punish their children