Developmental Psychology

Comparison Essay # 6119

Psychology > Behaviorism
Psychology > Child and Adolescent
Psychology > Physiological

Comparitive child development of children from single or two-parent households.

3,090 words () | 12 sources | MLA | 2002 Pakistan

Paper Summary:

The paper details the effect of child development in a single-parent household and a two-parent home. It details the difference between the two on a socio and developmental levels - looking at emotions, aggressions and attachments as examples. It also looks at children of single-parent homes comparing those raised by only a father or only a mother.

From the Paper:

"Different researches and many physiologists have written on the child development of broken or single parent homes such as an analysis of the 1986 NAEP data indicated that those children who had third graders living with one parent scored considerably lower than third graders living with both parents. Likewise, in 1987, analysis data from High School and Beyond, Ekstrom et al. discovered a significant correlation and child development effects caused by the single-parent homes and dropout. Moreover, children from such households seemed to experience unpleasant and bad health, education and emotional related effects than children brought up in two-parent family and in addition, children suffer all such kinds of problems due to the stress of family break-up."