Single Parenting


 

Single parenting refers to a parent who brings up children without the assistance of a spouse/partner. There are varying reasons why a single parent may bring up a child alone without help from a partner. It could be that the marriage doesn't function as such by means of legal separation or just separation. Few parents may opt to become single parents, and in quite a few cases, a partner may have passed away. Single-parent families are more common than ever. In some countries, single parent families have become even more common than the so-called "nuclear family" consisting of a mother, father and children. Today we can see all sorts of single parent families: headed by mothers, fathers, and even by a grandparent raising their grandchildren.

Single parents were very common in the 17th and 18th centuries. The most common cause: death of a parent. Approximately 1/3 to 1/2 of all children in this era experienced the death of a parent during childhood. Since then, medical advances and improvements in sanitation and maternal care have significantly reduced mortality of people in reproductive age. Thankfully, the death of a parent is now a much less common cause of single parenting. Divorce, accidental pregnancies and single parenting by choice are now the leading reasons for the rising number of single parents.

·       17% of children aged 0-14 live in single parent households worldwide Women head approximately 88% of these households Contrary to popular belief, the majority of single parents are employed

·       Almost a quarter of U.S. children under the age of 18 live with one parent and no other adults (23%). 5% of children in India live in single-parent households.

·       Marital status of American single mothers: 49% were never married 30% are divorced 17% are separated 3.5% are widowed 42% have one child and 32% have two children.

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