Children of Single Parent Families and Delinquency

Deviance can occur in any society or home but is mostly connected and associated with broken homes. Children with single parents are believed to be at high risk of being delinquent. The reason delienquency is very likely to occur is because the child is either "motherless" or "fatherless", and this may currupt the personality of the child in many ways. This is argued may lead to a destructive delinquent future. "Bad" neighborhoods, where single parents reside often leads to delinquency as the social society that single parents often live in are surrounded by deviant behaviour. The main reason single parents tend to reside in estates and currupted areas is they cant work because they have. Single parents tend not to punish their children for deviant behaviour as some parents feel guilty because the child only has one parent and they do not wnt thier child to resent them. Most citizens today believe It is very important for children to grow up in a nuclear family (two parents and children).

Although it is presumed that children need both a mother and a father, there is little evidence to support this idea. Sociologists from USC and NYU argued this theory. In a new Journal of Marriage and Family study, the team argues that (fatherless) children are not necessarily more disadvantaged than children with fathers. They argue that men do not provide a different set of parenting skills than women. "Timothy Biblarz and Judith Stacey analyzed relevant studies about parenting, including available research on single-mother and single-father households, gay male parents and lesbian parents. In their analysis, the researchers found no evidence of gender-based parenting abilities, with the "partial exception of lactation," there is little a...

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Works Cited

http://www.freedom2b.org/topic/666

http://www.tricitypsychology.com/two-parents-are-better-than-one-but-does-the-gender-of-parents-matter/

http://blog.psych.andress.com/blog/Development