Essay: Who are Most Effective Single Fathers or Mothers

Sample Essay

Literature Review

Argument of the study

The study under review, Can Men ‘Mother’? Life as a Single Father by Barbara J. Risman, takes  issue of the effectiveness of single fathers as it announces in the very first line that the ‘present study addresses’ the question of focus on single fathers (Risman, 1986, p.95). It argues that ‘mothering’ is not an exclusively female task (Risman, 1986, p.95) and states the argument for conducting the study because ‘more children than ever before are living- at least part of the time- with divorced fathers’ (Risman, 1986, p.95).

Previous Research

The study includes previous research to help support the importance of the study as the research on the roles of single fathers had started in the 1960s and, as Risman states, in Canada, Australia, England and the United States researches were conducted but the limitation of the previous studies was that they were ‘descriptive’ owing to the reason that the ‘methods, samples and therefore results differ dramatically by geographical region’ (Risman, 1986, p.96).

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