Single-Parent Families

http://family.jrank.org/pages/1577/Single-Parent-Families-Effects-on-Children.html

I found this article about the effects of single parent families, and found some things to be quite interesting. They attributed the child's adjustment to divorce to four factors: the passage of time, the quality of the relationship with the child's residential parent, conflict between parents, and the economic standing of the child's residential family.

Interestingly, it seems that fathers become disinterested in their seperated children a majority of the time. Also, while the loss of a father can have implications stretching beyond childhood, it seems that the larger issue is simply the loss of the male income to the family.