Attitude of Public towards Single Parenting

Abstract

This paper intends to study the social perspective on single parenting. Society plays a vital role in grooming the environment for a child from single parents. It’s said that different causes of single parents lead to different opinions in the society regarding that family. This may lead to various causes and problems for the child as well as the parent. Effects of single parenting are: psychological effects, educational effects, behavioural effects, economic effects and also effects of single parenting in adult life.  As a result this study is carried out to find which age groups have different perspectives towards single parenting and which age groups are likely to share similar perspectives. The data analysis was done using a questionnaire where the questionnaire consists of 19 sets of questions where the individuals need to answer all the questions. The obtained data was organized for statistical analysis. The result revealed that the age group shared similar opinions. The opinion and the response similarities were greatly dependent on questions asked and it was found that populations of the same age group have similar responses.