Deconstructing Mother Guilt: Single Mothers Can Effectively Raise an Emotionally Healthy and Well-Developed Male Child

Single mothers raising children on their own can be the result of a family breakdown, separation, divorce, or the result of a decision to have a baby without a partner. The family structure occurs in lower, middle, and upper class socioeconomic backgrounds and the number of children raised by single mothers has increased dramatically in recent years (Whitehead, 1993).