Rising Number Of Single Fathers Essay
Rising Number of Single Fathers
Psych 540
July 29, 2013
Nancy Lees
Rising Number of Single Fathers
In the past the way of society and the way of the judicial system was that when parents split up the children would always stay with their mother. Unless there was something seriously mentally wrong with the mother and the mother could be proven to be abusive or an all-around bad parent. In today’s time it is actually being the exact opposite of this taking place because mothers are being proven unfit and the fathers are more responsible. The psychological impact only the families are definitely enough to start a whole new era of psychological research and new experiments to be hatched.
Past Three Years
In the past three years the number of single parent homes in which the father is the single parent has risen 25 percent (W.P., 1988). This definitely shows and proves that society and the judicial system has come to the conclusion that not only is …show more content…
This also affects the families that are around the single parent and the children. This is also an issue that has to deal with society and how society feels about the situation at hand. How is the reversed role supposed to be dealt with? How do the individuals around the father and the children help them to cope and deal with everything that comes along with being in a single parent home and dealing with all the actions and the reactions of others around them about the role reversal and the father actually being the primary care giver of the children? Some individuals are still stuck in the past and will have problems with the situation simply because it is not of the norm and it is not how things have always been done. But in the end I would think that as long as the best interest of the children is what is being done and all the people involved strive for the best then the issue should be accepted by all in family, and also in
Psych 540
July 29, 2013
Nancy Lees
Rising Number of Single Fathers
In the past the way of society and the way of the judicial system was that when parents split up the children would always stay with their mother. Unless there was something seriously mentally wrong with the mother and the mother could be proven to be abusive or an all-around bad parent. In today’s time it is actually being the exact opposite of this taking place because mothers are being proven unfit and the fathers are more responsible. The psychological impact only the families are definitely enough to start a whole new era of psychological research and new experiments to be hatched.
Past Three Years
In the past three years the number of single parent homes in which the father is the single parent has risen 25 percent (W.P., 1988). This definitely shows and proves that society and the judicial system has come to the conclusion that not only is …show more content…
This also affects the families that are around the single parent and the children. This is also an issue that has to deal with society and how society feels about the situation at hand. How is the reversed role supposed to be dealt with? How do the individuals around the father and the children help them to cope and deal with everything that comes along with being in a single parent home and dealing with all the actions and the reactions of others around them about the role reversal and the father actually being the primary care giver of the children? Some individuals are still stuck in the past and will have problems with the situation simply because it is not of the norm and it is not how things have always been done. But in the end I would think that as long as the best interest of the children is what is being done and all the people involved strive for the best then the issue should be accepted by all in family, and also in