ABSTRACT
KEYWORDS. Single parent families, Stereotypes, Greek Mytholo gy, Christianity, Judaism, Archetype
When I was a child growing up in a small community in Colorado, there were a number of families with one parent. One friend and her siblings were being reared by her father because her mother had died in childbirth. The father expected my eleven-year-old friend to assume the mother role in entirety; she soon became pregnant by him.
