ody have to make the difficult decision whether to have a father figure for the child or to remain single until the child leaves. Two thirds of women who divorce remarry within the first five years. Many children have a secondary father figure, which may be seen as good in the eyes of the mother in most cases it is difficult on the child (Kessler, 1975). Twenty-seven percent of sexually abused children live with a stepfather or a mother's boyfriend (Rosenburg, 1992). Many mothers who are in custodial proceedings accuse the father of molesting their child so that they may obtain custodial rights. This is !
             common enough that judges rarely take any stalk in it (Mason, 1988).
             There is a definite double standard when dealing with single parents. Single mothers are generally looked down on, as if they were never married and it is a sin to raise children by her self. At the same time single fathers are revered (Raporport, Strelitz, Kew, 1987). The
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