Effect of Single Parenting on Stress of Adolescent Students

Abstract

In the present study it is found that Children who are living in single-parent households have increased risks of psychiatric diseases at various life stages. Growing up in a single-parent family may have adverse effect on the health of the child also. They may also face the condition of lack of resources which may lead to poor academic performance of the children. Studies conducted in this area indicated that in a single parent family child suffer from different types of problems. Rodgers and Pryor concluded from a comparative study of children of separated parents and children whose parents remain together that children of separated parents are at increased risk of the lower level of educational achievement, high drop out of school, become teenage parents, more conflicts with their parent, less supervised by adults.