Single parent household with an emphasis on fathers as the primary caregiver

Introduction

Several circumstances in family life changes nowadays , from the traditional kind to independent way of relationship . Despite the upward trend of single-parenthood , the proportion of single-parent families varies from country to country . Single parent type of living having the father as the primary caregiver would be conventional mother figure type of independent family . In lieu of this phenomenon , does the role of a typical father-mother arrangement have been properly depicted by a single parent ? How efficient a father could be in rearing alone his children It was exemplified that the

fatherly love and affection was as extravagant as it may seem . There was a strong connection that binds the father and its children . A father and child relationship is a unique bond and attachment (Mackey , 2001 . As the child becomes mature , it is important that there were established values that he can use as he travels the journey of life and having this foundation from a father is a great advantage . Father 's love and care for its children can never be compared to any other love even that of a mother . Even if the father was a bit discreet towards his affection with his children , it has been studied that fatherly love was a different kind of love . The lack of attention to fathers and the overwhelming acknowledgement of maternal influence are due to the generalized societal view that mother love is of superior importance . This view is due largely to traditional gender roles and identity , with mothers viewed as the main parental figure in child rearing (Rohner and Veneziano , 2001 To grasp the different factors that contribute to the concept of father being the primary caregiver would be the top priority of this Indeed , there were plausible rationales why this enormous change in family set up occurs logically . The resident parent may be single due to widowhood , divorce , separation , non-marriage , and more recently single parent adoption (Orthner ,Brown Ferguson , 1976 . Unavoidable circumstances like these can strengthen the relationship of the father and child . Perhaps , it was hard to be a single parent most especially if this involves rearing of the children , but these were something parents should get through because that 's how life deals with people . It is important to understand the extent of fathers ' involvement in their children 's lives today and in the recent past and how father involvement is linked to social characteristics of fathers and families (Tamis-Lemonda Cabrera , 2002 ,

.63 . The measure of father 's ability to interact with their children by being knowledgeable to what is beneficial for their child is an imperative task . This involvement also can weigh how strong their relationship has gone and how far the father monitors the behavior of his children as well as the degree of parenting responsibility he takes for the welfare of the children . All of these will reflect to what the children instate to its environment on how they address other people that surrounds them regardless of people 's...