Since the 1970's, the number of children living in singie father households has jumped from 333,000 to 1,351,000 according to the U.S. Department of Commerce in 1990. The diffrerences between women and men as single parents are largely exaggerated. Both men and vomen state parental satisfaction as having a good relationship with the children, and the desire to fulfill their responsibilities as reasons for seeking custody. Single mothers and fathers spend approximateiy the same amount of time with their children as well as performing household chores. Child wellbeing is also the same for both households.
Children are no more or less delinquent in one situation than the other.
Children of both genders do more work than children of mother-father households when it comes to household chores, in the area of academic achievement, children do equally well from both households. The ability of people to adjust to single parenthood after a divorce can be determined by their state before the divorce. If men and women are generally happy in the other aspects of their life outside of marriage, they tend to adjust better. Although community resources are more visible for women than men, both tend to look towards kin networks for support transitioning to singleparenthood. Indeed the evidence seems to point to single father households being as good as single mother households.