The Role Of The Single Parent Family

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Both parents are critical for a child’s growth and development. Not having a parent may impact both child and parent adversely. “Children with one parent are at higher risk of delinquency, then, because there is one less person capable of supervision” (Anderson, 576). It seems only logical that a child raised by one parent would have a harder time trying to stay out of trouble. Individual and Contextual Influences on Delinquency: The Role of the Single-parent Family an article written by Amy Anderson focuses on the single-parent family role. The data used to examine this role was taken from an evaluation type of research called the Gang Resistance Education and Training (GREAT). The sample population was 5,935 eighth-grade students, aged thirteen to fifteen from forty-two schools at eleven sites. They used three measures of self-reported delinquency, status, property, and person offenses. The results of this study seemed to be that the specific family structure did not affect weather an adolescent participated in delinquent activity. …show more content…

Father only and mother only households may affect child different due to different parenting methods. Prevalent article Parental gender, single-parent families, and delinquency: Exploring the moderating in influence of race/ethnicity by David Elite, focuses on whether the gender of the parent is related to delinquent behavior and illicit drug use. It also sets out to determine if the relationship between parental gender and delinquency is controlled by race/ethnicity. The results from an over dispersed Poisson HLM regression model suggest both individual and aggregate effects, with a potential buffering effect of intact families regardless of any adolescents’ specific family

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