Single Father Parenting
FABELLA, Jerzelle Mae Ann O. – BS AECO December 4, 2014
ENG 2 Y-2R Final LRP
Single Father Parents:
According to Horton and Hunt (1964), the family is a kinship grouping which provides for the rearing of children and for certain other human needs. The setting of the most intense human emotional experiences is centered upon the occurrence of changes in the family. Due to the tremendous influence that the family imposes upon the individual and society, its dissolution could bring about certain strains might even be strong enough to lead to the evolution of a new set of roles for the individuals affected by the dissolution, as a means of coping with the situation.
Researches about parenting view mostly on mothers as the primary parent being the caretaker or caregiver, homemaker, and nurturer while fathers are viewed to be the provider specifically being the breadwinner, disciplinarian, and playmates.
Parenting or otherwise known as child rearing is the way and demonstration of raising a kid from the day he/she was conceived up to the day he/she chooses to have his/her own family. It may either be a two-parent kind of parenting wherein a child is nurtured by a mother and a father, or a single-parent, in which the only difference is that a child is raised by only one parent. Single parenting these days is not another wonder and has not been viewed as deviant any longer due to expanding number in such case consistently. The explanations behind single-parent families are believed to be due to divorce, widowhood, separation, single parent adoption, non-marriage, and abandonment. The status of single parents has been seen a transitional and temporary state of life which belongs to the difficult part after the separation and ending when the single parents remarry. Single parents as heads of households could create changes in today’s society.
Margaret Mead once wrote that “motherhood is a biological necessity, but fatherhood is a social invention.” Although
ENG 2 Y-2R Final LRP
Single Father Parents:
According to Horton and Hunt (1964), the family is a kinship grouping which provides for the rearing of children and for certain other human needs. The setting of the most intense human emotional experiences is centered upon the occurrence of changes in the family. Due to the tremendous influence that the family imposes upon the individual and society, its dissolution could bring about certain strains might even be strong enough to lead to the evolution of a new set of roles for the individuals affected by the dissolution, as a means of coping with the situation.
Researches about parenting view mostly on mothers as the primary parent being the caretaker or caregiver, homemaker, and nurturer while fathers are viewed to be the provider specifically being the breadwinner, disciplinarian, and playmates.
Parenting or otherwise known as child rearing is the way and demonstration of raising a kid from the day he/she was conceived up to the day he/she chooses to have his/her own family. It may either be a two-parent kind of parenting wherein a child is nurtured by a mother and a father, or a single-parent, in which the only difference is that a child is raised by only one parent. Single parenting these days is not another wonder and has not been viewed as deviant any longer due to expanding number in such case consistently. The explanations behind single-parent families are believed to be due to divorce, widowhood, separation, single parent adoption, non-marriage, and abandonment. The status of single parents has been seen a transitional and temporary state of life which belongs to the difficult part after the separation and ending when the single parents remarry. Single parents as heads of households could create changes in today’s society.
Margaret Mead once wrote that “motherhood is a biological necessity, but fatherhood is a social invention.” Although
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