Of the traditional economic resources and welfare, focusing on physical and mental health, pressure of parenthood and interpersonal adaptation, through a questionnaire survey of 500 intact families and 440 single parent families, this research found that the overall level of SWB of single parent is significantly lower than that of intact family. Further findings revealed that single parent's level of SWB was much lower not in satisfaction for material life but in parenthood pressure and negative emotions and moods. Analysis of regression model showed that the side (person) applying for a divorce had a higher level of SWB than the side unwilling to divorce or widowed single parent did. As expected, life events (xiagang or unemployment, frustration in career) had a major effect on SWB for both single parent families and intact families. There was a positive correlation between income and SWB level. These single parents who saw frustration as life experience were more likely to have higher level of satisfaction and adjustment. There was negative correlation between social prejudice against single parents and their SWB. In contrast, there was positive correlation between social support and single parent's SWB. In contract with the findings in eastern countries, there was no significant difference between single fathers and single mothers.
