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Summary:Documentary about single parenting,which examines how it affects the mental development and health of the child. Recent research is dramatically changing understanding about one-parent children. The programme makes use of five major studies on the subject carried out since the war,and concludes that being born out of wedlock and brought up by one parent has a markedly different effect from losing a parent through divorce.
Description:LOOKS AT LONG-TERM RESEARCH FOLLOWING THE PSYCHOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN IN ONE-PARENT FAMILIES