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Assess the argument that lone parent families have become a matter for public concern and even alarm.
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Assess the argument that lone parent families have become a matter for public concern and even alarm. A lone parent is seen as a teenage single mother in today's society but only a very small and decreasing number of lone parents are. A lone parent is can be one of a group of people; the death of a parent might cause only one parent, people who are separated or people who are not co-habiting with children cause lone parents. The parent of a lone parent family has either separated or divorced from the other parent, been widowed or are just single. There are an estimated 1.7 million one-parent families in Britain today that is nearly a quarter of all families. One-parent families reflect changing family patterns throughout western society. The social stigma that is still sometimes attached to loan parents may be the cause of the functionalist view, which...
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