Single Parent Families: Changing Views Newspaper article

Single Parent Families: Changing Views Newspaper article
Single-parent families face many problems in their daily lives. These problems include parenting, child care, chores, drop in the level of income, social life, and also the use of time. As a result of these problems, leisure consumption, which is one of the indicators of quality of life, can be changed. The purpose of this study is to explore the changes in leisure consumption in single-parent families. Participants of this study consisted of single-parent employees at the Hacettepe University in Ankara, Turkey (n=119). The families in which the parent is female 76.5% made up a larger portion of the study than the families in which the parent is male 23.5%. The ages of the participants ranged from 25-65 years (M=40.91 years, SD=9.75). More than half had college degree 50.4% and 27.7% had an education level that consisted of secondary school or less. The overall monthly income level was between 2001 TL-3000 TL 41.2% and single-child families 64.7% were prominent. According the results, single-parent families experienced a decrease in consumption in activities such as going to the cinema, theatre, and concerst 62.2%, participating in ticketed sporting events 52.9%, and eating out 47.9% because of economic reasons. © Common Ground, M. Serhat Öztürk, Ayfer Aydiner Boylu, All Rights Reserved.
Transform family system from two-parent into a single-parent family system need a variety of adjustment, particularly when two parent divorce. There are several types of single-parent family system, but most are headed by women. Single parent system caused by parental divorce may affect children either short or long-term and positive or detrimental. Short-term effects include behavior difficulties at home and at school that occurs in association with the initial reaction to parental separation. Long-term effects may not appear until adolescence or adulthood when individuals become involved in intimate relationship and experience difficulties in establishing them. Need a strategy and intervention to children with single parent system