Single-Parent Families and Personality Development

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"This paper will review the literature related to the effect of single parent families on personality development. The paper will present a discussion of the important variables which need to be controlled in studies investigating the effect of single parent families, followed by issues of creativity and single parenting, and a summary.

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Every single parent family has sustained some loss to the system - one of the spouses is not present. In 89 percent of the single parent families in the U.S.. it is the husband/father who has been lost. The incidence of single parent child rearing has increased markedly from 11.9 percent in 1970 to 20.1 percent in 1981, and most of these cases are headed by women. Single parent families resulting from ... "

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