An Anthropology Study : Why Single Mothers Have to Face Differences?

Family is a factory producing human personalities and it is a unit with the married couple and their children. In modern society, the family faces a large number of changes. In the current special setup, one of the major problems that a family encounters is disorganization. Through it, the single-parent family has been created. A single-parent family is a family where only one of the parents, either mother or father, has to fulfill the children's financial, material and emotional needs, without the help of someone else. The main objective of this research was to Study the economic problems faced by mothers in single-parent families. As the field of research were used Wennappuwa, Puttalam District, North Western Province, Sri Lanka. 150 single-parent households and 52 households are being chosen at 30% of a sample under the systematic sample method. The research is fundamentally based on Primary sources and secondary sources. Out of the total sample, 63% of single mothers were found age group 35-40. From the subjects considered, 3/4th was Sinhalese. Tamils & Muslims were 9% and 15% respectively. From the women who participated in the research, 1/3rd of them were widowed due to their husband’s death. 30% were divorced and 20% were separated, but 17% of women were not legally separated. Interestingly, 98% of women were married under 24, while 41% were married under 18. 63% of these women are employed, the majority (56%) are employed in the private sector. The average monthly income was less than 20,000. 59% of these families reported that they suffer from the debt burden. Finally, it could be concluded authorities should be conduct uplift programs for single mothers in Sri Lanka