Sociology 2235 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Normative Social Influence, Noncustodial Parent, Artificial Insemination
18 Jan 2017
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More than 25% of families with kids are currently lone parent families. About 50% of all kids born in the 90s will live in lone parent families sometime during their childhoods: could be temporary or an ongoing arrangement. (cid:862)o(cid:374)e pare(cid:374)t fa(cid:373)ilies(cid:863) appeared in official documentation in the 1960s. Historically stigmatized and pathological: (cid:862)u(cid:374)(cid:373)arried (cid:373)others(cid:863, (cid:862)fatherless fa(cid:373)ily(cid:863, stigmas: kids will do poorly in school, end up in jail, get into drugs/alcohol, more likely to be poor. Recent research shows that kids can be raised in one parent families and not suffer the consequences of poverty, as previously thought. Official definition: (cid:862)a (cid:373)other/father li(cid:448)i(cid:374)g (cid:449)ithout a part(cid:374)er (cid:894)either (cid:373)arried or (cid:272)oha(cid:271)iti(cid:374)g(cid:895), (cid:449)ith their dependent children. the child must be under 19 and in full-time edu(cid:272)atio(cid:374)(cid:863) Generally headed by women: father-headed single parent family tripled since 1980s. Became parents in marriage, as a single, through artificial insemination, or by adoption. No compromises able to be sole decision maker.
