lone-parent families
- Created by: emilyhuffordx
- Created on: 31-12-17 10:38
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- Lone parent households
- Statistics and Facts
- 22% of families in the UK are lone parent households
- 90% of lone parent households are headed by a woman
- Children in lone parents households are twice as likely to experience poverty than children with two parents
- Research in focus
- A study by the charity 'gingerbread'- suggests that 67% of lone parent families struggle constantly with their finances
- 56% reported that they cannot get work at all and others are unable to work the hours needed to meet their living costs
- The survey of 2486 lone mothers and fathers found that 75% had been hit by welfare cuts and 39% were in low paid jobs
- The average employment income for single-parent households was £110 per week, compared with £390 for all UK households (2011-2012)
- Theorists
- New Right
- Argue that children need a mother and a father
- Feminists
- one happy parent is by far more preferable to than two parents who are unhappy or dysfunctional
- New Right
- Difficult to operationalise or measure the numbers single-parent families
- Increase in number of co-parenting after divorce - this means that the parents still take joint responsibility for their children despite not being together as a couple
- Statistics and Facts
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