ngle parent families (Chandler, 1996).
Lack of a parent also effects children. Freud posits that by eliminating one of the parental figures and not replacing them with someone of equal stature, the developmental stages that a child must go through to mature are disrupted. Then the child has trouble learning how to function in society and how to interact with either adults of the opposite or same sex (depending upon which parent is "missing")("Single-Parenting", 2001).
Single parenting can also cause disruptions in the family such as conflict with a former spouse and lack of communication and involvement with children, lack of parental investment in and attachment to chi
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