Problems of Female-headed households in Sistan Baluchistan province, Iran

Badkground: Family is the main unit for personality and member communities’ development. In psychology view some families are fragile .for example single parent families. The aim of this study was to determine Problems of single women headed in sis tan Baluchistan province in 2010. Material & methods: this study is descriptive and cross sectional design. Sample is single women headed referred to behzisti organization ,committee emdad and city health centers of sis tan Baluchistan province in April to august 2010.data collected by questionnaire and interview method. Validity and reliability of tool gained through content validity and used equivalent forms. The questionnaires distributed by Iranshahr basij women between mentioned centers in different parts of province. Data analyzed by spss16 and descriptive statics Results: indicated mean of age was 40.5±12.6 mean of marriage age was 17.4±4.5years .mean of children number was4±2.5.these families were 58.5% single headed, 38.3% bad headed and 3.2% self headed.83.1%had income less than 300thousand tomans monthly, 69.6%were under supervision of insurance organizations. Unfortunately the children in 57%of families had deprived from education and school and 98.2%of families had behavioral problems in children Conclusion: women headed families are very vulnerable and fragile. They encounter too many problems. Attention and look after to them is important task of government, everybody and organizations. Help to them have to been more than financial aids. It, s necessary education of skill in order been wealthy and prevention of being affiliation them