Bibliography.............

Bulcroft, Richard A. Family Structure… New York: Sage Publication, 1998


This article explores the relationship between family structure and control attempts of parents with regard to their adolescent children. Bulcroft analyzed many different family structures but more importantly for my research single parent households. This study focused on parental behaviors such as leaving the child home alone, variations in curfew, and application of household rules.

In my paper I will use his findings that revealed that there is very little difference between parental control attempts in lifelong two parent families versus single-parent families.