A Solution-Focused Intervention With Recovering, Alcohol-Dependent, Single Parent Mothers and Their Children
✍ Scribed by Gerald A. Juhnke; J. Kelly Coker
- Publisher
- American Counseling Association
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 669 KB
- Volume
- 17
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1055-3835
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✦ Synopsis
A pproximately 10.5 million families headed by single parent mothers have children under the age of 18 (United States Department of Commerce, Economics and Statistics Administration, 1990). Many single parent mothers experience a greater number of family related problems than do married mothers (Compas & Williams, 1990). The demands of raising children alone may foster dysfunctional alliances between some single parent mothers and their children. For example, single parent mothers tend to "parentify" oldest children by placing sons in "man of the house" roles and daughters in "confidant and peer" roles (Morrison, 1995). Such dysfunctional roles promote unhealthy, pseudo-adult alliances that blur necessary parent-child boundaries and confound functional family hierarchical structures. Thus, these single parent mothers may experience increased levels of frustration, despair, and hopelessness, placing them at greater risk for alcohol dependency (Bowen, Desimone,