... 1990's. His research concluded that it is most common that the heads of lone parent families are women. It is the women that look after the children in most cases when there is a divorce. It was found that there are 1.6 million children in this position at the moment. Much of his research was done using covert observations. He also then narrowed his research down to a few families and using what he referred to it as "snap shot" methods he watched and noted the hours these children spend with their fathers. He also found that many of these children lived in poverty as a result of the divorce. This helps me to provide a context for my research because it provides information that recognises that lone parent families are still seen as undesirable due to the figures of children in poverty as a result of marital breakdowns My ...

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