These scenarios cause different behavioral aspects on the child's moral attitudes, mentally and socially, let alone all the affects on the parents themselves who most significantly deal with situations such as their income, benefits, employment, housing and day care.
Women have tended to have higher expectations towards marriage and are less satisfied (Thornes and Collard 1979), this causes them to access a fast and cheap process of divorce with such act being the ‘norm’ in society.
Other lone parents are widowed (6%), comparing to the 53% divorced.
New Right thinkers such as Murray suggest that single parenting being labelled as ‘Under-class’ are allegedly socializing their children into the dependency culture based around being unemployed and claiming benefits.
However this isn't true and causes Labeling which then may result in self fulfilling prophecy which then causes more troubles with their housing and communicating with them because of the negative stereotypes.
Single parenting may be seen with an open view such as an escape from Domestic Violence which would have had other severe disadvantages to an empty shell marriage.
This ideology is supported by Phoenix and Cashmore that it’s often preferable for a child to live with one caring parent than having a nuclear family who are in conflict with each other and may scapegoat the child, eventually in their view ‘Lone Parenting’ is not seen as a negative aspect in all situations.
This stops the child from having such understanding that conflict, misbehavior and abuse is acceptable and normal.
The economy in the other hand believes that lone parent families are dysfunctional and blame the poverty on them.
Spencer Swalm a republican state legislator from Colorado states that families can stay out of poverty by avoiding having kids outside of marriage.
‘Those children are almost guaranteed to be in poverty’ Swalm remarked. He then stated the following ‘You don't want kids in poverty? Don't have kids out of wedlock’.
These statements are from someone with high level of respect, however nothing about the welfare of a lone parent is suggested.
By trying to repair a dysfunctional family as Swalm suggests its better for lone parents to marry again.
This is then again criticized by Professor Kamp Dush, who stated "we can't say for sure that marriage will be a good thing for the children of single mothers, particularly if that marriage is unhealthy and does not last." So much for Swalm's idea that two parents are always better than one.
Taking into evaluation a Lone parent family has the potential to become dysfunctional; these include the chances of the parent having to work and putting time with child care which isn't realistic for young children.
However if the lone parent is financially supported, by whomever which could be the father who does not show any sign of prudence for the family or is not emotionally ready for a child but can financially support them, then this type of family is as norm as a nuclear family in society.
