Single-parent families and their children
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Â?¢ Explain the advantages and disadvantages for children of single-parent family, extended family â?¢ Add any factors that potentially affect the selected family configuration.
â?¢ Then reflect on how you as a potential educator will prepare yourself to interact with your chosen family configuration.
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Discussion of single-parent families, and the effects of this dynamic upon children, as considered from a teacher's role. Suggestions for a teacher to cope with the needs ot such children in the classroom.
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â?¢ Explain the advantages and disadvantages for children of single-parent family, extended family â?¢ Add any factors that potentially affect the selected family configuration.
I am assuming that this means children of a single parent family who also have extended family members, as is common.
As a one-time single parent myself, this subject is of interest to me. My first husband passed away quite unexpectedly at age 48, when our daughter was 11 years old, and our son was 8. There are, I have since discovered, advantages to having a parent pass away, as opposed to having a divorce, separation or abandonment. My children knew full well that their father did not CHOOSE to leave them - he had to leave for reasons completely beyond his, and their, control. That provided closure, and no feelings of rejection which are common when there is a divorce or separation, where the absent parent had a choice (more or less). Children whose parent had a choice often suffer feelings of rejection, which often express themselves as anger at school. Even children who are living with their parent who never knew their absent parent often feel rejected, because the absent parent must not have loved them enough to stay for them. Depending on the cause of single parenthood, children may be more or less "damaged" psychically by the loss of the absent parent. ...
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