The Two-Parent Family Is Not The Best
Book Description
In "The Two-Parent Family Is Not The Best," women who as children were "seen and not heard" are heard.
How they were treated as children is revealed in this research study of women raised by single fathers, single mothers, both biological parents, and step parents.
Can women who had no mothers be good mothers? What advantages do single-parent families have over two-parent fa...
MoreIn "The Two-Parent Family Is Not The Best," women who as children were "seen and not heard" are heard.
How they were treated as children is revealed in this research study of women raised by single fathers, single mothers, both biological parents, and step parents.
Can women who had no mothers be good mothers? What advantages do single-parent families have over two-parent families? The answers will surprise you.
A myth-breaker, this book will affect your perception of family and parenting.
This is a book about parenting and the human relationships involved in the process of raising children. It evaluates how well parents did in raising their children by what the children, now grown, say about their childhood. It will indicate some do's and don'ts for today's parents.
Children often hide their hurts, either fearful of telling their parents how they feel, or not knowing how injured they are until they're grown. If we listen to the adults in this book, we hear of the joys and the anguish lingering from childhood, either praising or condemning the way their parents treated them.
How do we really know what children feel? What could be a hidden anguish may burgeon to a full blown breakdown in adulthood. What better way to learn the effects of family composition and customs than to listen to yesterday's children?
The children in this book, now grown to adulthood, speak out from four different family groups. These groups are composed of 368 women who were raised by single fathers, or by single mothers, or by both biological parents, or by a step parent. Their answers to a lengthy questionnaire asking a multitude of questions were compared from group to group. The results indicated that where there is one strong and loving parent, the children were often better off than where there were two parents. Fathers, in the two parent families, barely participated in child raising. There were fathers in three of the groups studied, but the only group as a whole, where fathers did a credible job of parenting was where they were the only parent.
This book is about young girls, how they were raised and how they are now as adults. The initial quest was to learn about girls raised by single fathers, but the study was then expanded for comparison purposes. The next book will be about boys growing up in different family situations.
Other things were learned in this research. One is that there is no family composition that by its structure, is better than another family structure. All family groups had good family relationships and all family groups had disastrous family relationships. What matters in families is not whether there is a father or a mother, two biological parents, or a step parent, or even if any of the people are related. What matters is how the people treat each other. This study should dampen the assumption that the two biological parent family is the best for all children, because that did not prove to be true.
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Binding | Kindle Edition (2 editions) |
Reading Level | Uncategorized
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# of Pages | 446 |
ISBN-10 | B007E560BM |
Publication Date | 02/26/2012 |
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