Annotated Bibliography: Single Parenting


Annotated Bibliography: Single Parenting
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Annotated Bibliography: Single Parenting
Divorce and single-parenting have become part of the modern society and have dramatically altered the lives of children as well as effecting the society at large. It has become an alarming reality that most children in the modern society spend their childhood living with a single parent. There is also an increasing trend of non residential parents being detached over time and paying no or minimal child support. The costs on the affected children as well as the society of such disengagement have proved to be far from trivial. The connections relating custody arrangements, child support, child well being and parental involvement are still not well covered by the previous studies. Most of the research on single parenting are based on unrepresentative, small samples or on divorcing couples experiences in a particular area. Such studies do not truly reflect the real experiences of most of the affected children and the custodial parents as well as the consequences of such family set up to the parents, children and society. More studies need to be conducted on issues related to the rise of divorce cases, the difference between the dual patents and single parents with more focus being directed towards the impacts of these families on children, parents and the society at large. This paper presents an annotated bibliography on selected sources on single parenting and the difference and effects of single and dual parenting on society, children and parents. The annotation takes a look at expertise of the authors in this field, the relevance of the sources to this topic and the functionality of the sources.
Amato, P. R., (2011). Parents' marital distress, divorce, and remarriage: Links with daughters' early family formation transitions. Journal of Family Issues, 32, 1073-1103.
Author: Paul R, Amato, the author of this article is a Professor of Family Sociology and Demography with a PhD in Behavioral Science from James Cook University. His current research and teaching interests are on causes and consequences of divorce and separation, marital and marriage quality, psychological distress, child-parent relationship and well-being over life course. His education background, experience and current research interest shows how he is deeply interested on separation and divorce
Publication: The article was published by Journal of Family Issues which provides information on research, analyses and theory on family life and marriage makes it a relevant source when it comes to single parenting.
The Writing: The study is on the effect of the marital status of parents and relationships distress on the early family formation transitions. The findings showed that both remarriage and divorce increase the chances that a child will have non-marital or cohabitation indicating that married parents serve as barriers to non-marital cohabitation and non-marital births.
Use: The findings are relevant to the topic and can be used to show that single parenting results to stress among the children leading to their daughters being more vulnerable to non-marital and cohabit births. This supports the topic of discussion on the effect of single parenting on children.
Olweus, D. (2006). Adolescent's adjustment in four post-divorce family structures: Single mother, stepfather, joint physical custody and single father families. Journal of Divorce & Remarriage, 44(3/4), 99-124.
The Authors: Dan Olweus, the co-author of this article is a psychologist and professor in Personality...