Single Motherhood: College Student Views
Two-hundred-forty-eight university students completed an anonymous confidential questionnaire designed to assess their attitudes toward single motherhood. Almost eighty percent (79%) of the respondents agreed that "it is perfectly OK for a woman to decide to have and to raise a child without a husband" with significantly more women (85%) than men (73%) in agreement. Other significant findings included that women were more likely (56%) than men (40%) to agree that parents are interchangeable--that children can develop just as well with either a single mother or a single father. Finally women were less likely (26%) than men (48%) to believe that men are better disciplinarians of children than women. Implications of the findings for students faculty and administrators are suggested. (excerpt)