SINGLE PARENT FAMILY: SOME CONSIDERATIONS CONCERNING THE RESPONSE OF THE SERVICES FROM ARAD, TO ITS NEEDS

Abstract

Family faces a series of various issues
nowadays such as: poor stress management and enormous
pressure, poor communication with children,
shortcomings, juvenile delinquency issues, little time
spent with the family and disfunctionality brought about
by disability. Ranked as fundamental institution in a
society, family has constantly been on the agenda of social
policies, legislative regulations, trying to protect family on
various levels and dimensions: policies which encourage
child birth, benefits which support single-parent families,
ensure Guaranteed Minimum Income, etc. In this paper we
will refer to a special situation of vulnerability, namely
single-parenthood. We would like to highlight the
issues/pressure the single parent and the child is subjected
to. WE have also tried to identify the social services
available to single-parent families in Arad City.