If moms are accepting that gender-expected role (and this is, indeed, a pretty hetero-parent debate, and a gender role issue that single parents experience very differently), then is Bruce right?
DS: I grew up in a single parent home, experiencing it first hand.
Children of single parents may experience less parental support for engaging in PA or lack access to observational learning situations than children of two-parent families, but may compensate for the lack of parental involvement and stimuli and seek other sources of information and role models that assist in shaping their PA level.
The family, important for raising children, is gradually being sidetracked; single parent children have less experience of living together with other people.
I don't know a single parent that hasn't experienced weeks like this.
In 1995 his wife of some 20 years was killed in an automobile crash, leaving Niinistö the single parent of two sons, an experience he wrote about movingly in the book Viiden vuoden yksinäisyys (2005; "Five Years of Solitude").
5 Our impression is that those parents with complex family and social circumstances (eg, single parent; unemployment; debt; substance abuse) experience the most difficulties.
That marriage ended in divorce, and Silverstein became a single parent of a young daughter — an experience, he says, that has given him an appreciation for the lives of women.
Personally, I really related to JK Rowling's experience as a single parent and she was a massive inspiration to me when I was starting out because I too was in a very difficult situation when I started to write.
Households of racial/ethnic minorities (i.e., black or Hispanic/Latino), households with incomes near or below the federal poverty line ($23,000 for a family of four), and households headed by a single parent are significantly more likely to experience food insecurity (2).
