Challenges and clinical values of two parents’ family

Generally, it is a well-accepted understanding that two parent families perform

better in all aspects of health indicators, such as psychological, physical,
economic and social components of health.

Less adjustment problems are observed in two parent families than those
divorced. (Explaining the higher differnces of)

Children of divorce parents are more likely to have early sexual activity, use of
illicit substances, suffer depression, and tends to commit criminal acts than
two parents or nuclear families. (Explaining the higher differnces of)

Compared to two parent families, single parent families especially single

mother families are associated with a poorer physical, mental and higher rates
of child mortality (1).

Children from single parents in Sub-Saharan Africa especially from single

mothers were significantly more likely to be stunted (a chronic form of
malnutrition) than two parent families except widows. (Health effects of single
mother on children in sub-Saharan Africa). Children under five years of age
are 41 %, 58 %, 28 % more likely to die in Cameron, Nigeria, DRC
respectively if they are from single mothers except widows compared to two
parent families. (Health effects of single mother on children in sub-Saharan
Africa).

Children from two parent families have a 79 %, 69 % less likelihood to

develop child sunting than single parents especially single mothers except
widows in Cameron, and DRC respectively.(Health effects of single mother on
children in subsaharan Africa)

The conclusion is that children raised by their biological, married parents do

better, by almost every measure, has been proven in hundreds of studies over
the last several decades.[5]

Again, we find that children reared in intact homes do best on educational

achievement, emotional health, familial and sexual development, and
delinquency and incarceration.[17]

Children living with a mother’s boyfriend are about eleven times more likely to
be sexually, physically, or emotionally abused than children living with their
married biological parents.[18]

And children separated from one or both of their biological parents are 1.5
times as likely to experience financial difficulty, six times as likely to have
witnessed neighborhood violence, fifteen times as likely to have witnessed
caregiver or parent violence, eleven times as likely to have lived with a
caregiver or parent with a drug or alcohol problem, and seventeen times as
likely to have had a caregiver or parent in jail.[19]