Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui gambaran dan perkembangan anak usia 5-6 tahun dengan single father karena perceraian. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif metode deskriptif. Analisis data dilakukan melalui tiga tahapan: data reduction, data display, dan conclusions: drawing/verifying. Subjek dalam penelitian ini 1 anak usia 5-6 tahun. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa pengasuhan pada single father mengalami banyak hambatan pada perkembangan kognitif, perkembangan moral, perkembangan bahasa, perkembangan seni, perkembangan fisik-motorik, perkembangan sosial-emosional. Dalam pengasuhan, istri menyerahkan hak asuh anaknya kepada single father, single father ini bekerja sebagai nelayan, karena sibuk dengan pekerjaannya yang rentang waktu kurang leih tiga sampai empat hari baru pulang sehingga membuat single father jarang bertemu dengan anaknya, single father hanya dua sampai kali dalam satu minggu bertemu dengan ayahnya. Ketika single father bekerja anaknya di titipkan ke budenya. Anak tersebut jarang masuk sekolah karena tidak di antarkan ayahnya, di rumah budenya pun anak tersebut tidak di asuh dengan baik karena budenya sendiri sibuk dengan keluarganya. Karena jarang masuk sekolah dan belajar dirumah membuat anak single father tersebut terhambat dalam perkembangannya. Kata Kunci: Single Father, Perkembangan Anak Usia Dini, Usia 5-6 Tahun.

This research aims to find out the representation and the development child at 5-6 years old by the cases single father because divorcing. This research uses qualitative approach of descriptive methods. The data analysis is done through three steps: data reduction, data display, and conclusions: drawing/veryfying. The subject of this research is 1 child at 5-6 years old. The result of this research shows that the nurturing at single father experience many obstacles at the kognitive development, moral development, language development, and social emosional development. In nurturing, wife gives the law of care her child for the single father, single father works as fisherman, he is so busy from his work until he rarely to meet his child because the timing of his work at 3 until 4 days in the sea. Single father onlu 2 days in 1 week can meet his child. When single father working, his child is entrusting into his daughter. That child is rarely come to school because his father cannot accompany him to the school. In the house of child’s aunt, he is not nurtured well because his aunt also taking care her family. Therefore, the child is rarely come to the school until make his development is impeded. Keywords: Single father, early childhood development, children at 5-6 years old

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