Christie-Seely, Janet, and Yves Talbot. "Assessing The Single-Parent Family." Pubmed, 31 Sept. 1985, p. 1633–1639., www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21274172. Accessed 19 Oct. 2018.
The article critically reviews the single-parent family issues by ideally linking psychosocial problems and illness associated with stress to single parenthood. The authors have explained to us that divorces and separation is a major cause to single-families parenthood when compared to those single-parent families that result as death of a single spouse. This article uses a non-judgemental approach to critically understand and access the issues that single-families undergo, it has ideally givens statistical data on the stresses that this families under go to cope up with this society. This is by ideally giving us clear facts on the impact this families may have on children. To understand the problem and solve it the authors have suggested use of appropriate assessment tools for the areas that are problematic in single- parent families.-
Demuth, Stephen, and Susan L. Brown. "Family Structure, Family Processes, and Adolescent Delinquency: The Significance of Parental Absence Versus Parental Gender." Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, vol. 41, no. 1, 2004, pp. 58-81.
This article tries to investigate the effects of growing up in a two-parent family hood versus single-mother families by examining adolescent delinquency issue that are likely to be experienced with this kind of families. By using data from the national longitudinal survey of Adolescent of 1995 the article found out that about one third of children are born to unmarried couples and over half of children born will spend most of their childhood in a single-parenthood family. This then ideally indicates that any issues that single-parenthood families undergo may impact a lot of children. One main issue the authors examine is the relationship between adolescent delinquencies with single-parenthood families. This is done by comparing adolescent delinquencies in single parenthood families with two parent families. There by explaining to us that family processes may greatly determine on the level of delinquency exhibited by adolescents.
Works Cited
Christie-Seely, Janet, and Yves Talbot. "Assessing The Single-Parent Family." Pubmed, 31 Sept. 1985, p. 1633–1639., www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21274172. Accessed 19 Oct. 2018.
Demuth, Stephen, and Susan L. Brown. "Family Structure, Family Processes, and Adolescent Delinquency: The Significance of Parental Absence Versus Parental Gender." Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, vol. 41, no. 1, 2004, pp. 58-81.
