SOCI 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Nuclear Family, Single Parent
Week 6- parenting
Caring for sick children
• Coping with a severely ill child is extremely stressful
o Faily’s aility to ope is orrelated ith its preious leel of futioig
o Caring for sick child deprives others in the family of care and attention they crave
o Illness may cause dysfunction, but it can also strengthen family ties
• Helpful resources
o Level of relationship quality
o Online help
o Other family members
o Homogamy
• Having a sick child drains these resources
Single parenting
• Single parent families can provide children with a significant decrease in conflict anxiety
and depression
• Single parents can have a harder time providing a higher quality of life
o Low income for many single mothers is a direct outcome of divorce
Parenting in poverty
• Families living in poverty face special challenges
o Parents unable to provide for basic needs, suffer low self-esteem and poor
mental health
o Children in low income families at higher risk for behaviour and cognitive
problems
o Disadvantages being passed from one generation to another
• Positive effects
o Stronger bond between parent and child
o Learning life skills
o Larger network of support
▪ Step parent
o Escaping conflict
• Negative effects
o Children more likely to face mental and psychological problems
o Knowledge of relationship can be negative
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