Official status
Full officially recognized family that live together and child-rearing both parents or persons in Loco parentis. This means that the whole family can safely be called the following types of families:
- families where the biological parents of children are married, living together and jointly raising children;
- families where the parents are married, but practiced "alternative" forms of family relationships, such as offering marriage, open marriage, etc.;
- families in which parents are not in formal relationship, but living together and rearing children;
- families in which the husband is not the biological father of one or more children but are living together with their mother and engaged in their education.
- families with adopted children or wards in which the status of the legal representative of both spouse.
Incomplete call a family consisting of a mother and her child (children). Moreover, if the father officially missing (in the birth certificate of the child is blank), the woman recognized as the mother. If the father has formally acknowledged his child (evidence of paternity), but do not live together with his mother, the woman does not have the status of a single mother, but raising children in an incomplete family.
Psychological differences
Despite the fact that single-parent families have now become quite common, psychologists do not consider such a family family complete.
For normal balanced personality development of the child it is necessary that his upbringing involved both the mother and the father. And, contrary to popular belief, it is important not only for boys but also for girls. Seeing how mother and father are building a relationship and how they interact with each other in different situations, the child gets a matrix of the relationships between men and women, spouses, parents and children.
Getting the heat and attention from the father and the mother, the child perceives the fullness of parental love. It is known that the mother loves her child unconditionally, just for the fact that it was born, and the father's love, judgment and demanding. He is ready to rejoice in the success of the child, be proud of them, but your requirements, tips, instruction stimulates further growth of the personality of his child.
If education is only a mother, she involuntarily has to take on both male and female family functions, including in relation to the child, and it distorts his emerging understanding of social roles of mother and father, housewife and breadwinner.
Of course, if the conditions in a full family was unacceptable, if the mother and the child was put under psychological pressure if they had experienced physical violence, a family climate is possible to call destructive to the psyche of the child. And, of course, in this case it is better to grow up in a single-parent family.
But to the woman it is important to understand that the successful education of the child, the proper formation of his psyche and the social representations it is necessary to exert a lot more effort than in full harmonious and happy family.