Family has a crucial responsibility to give the basic and foremost educations that determine children’s moral in the future. This study aims to find out the moral problems of children from single parent families and mother's efforts to educate the children. This was qualitative research using case study design. Data were collected by carrying out in-depth interviews to ten selected informants using purposive sampling technique. Data analysis referred to Miles and Huberman’s. Overall, the study found eight children’s moral problems that were categorized into two aspects, they were obedience (ignoring parents) and personality problems such as gambling, fighting, stealing, being promiscuous, being badly affected by online game, lying, and dating. To overcome the moral problems, single mothers did three ways to educate their children, namely giving advice, exemplary, and punishment.

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui permasalahan akhlak anak dalam keluarga single parent. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode kualitatif melalui pendekatan studi kasus. Sumber data penelitian diambil melalui wawancara mendalam kepada sepuluh informan yang sudah terpilih dengan menggunakan teknik purposive sampling. Secara keseluruhan hasil penelitian mendapati delapan permasalahan akhak anak. Delapan permasalahan tersebut dikelompokkan kepada dua aspek yaitu 1) tidak patuh terhadap orang tua, 2) permasalahan kepribadian seperti, i) berjudi, ii) berkelahi, iii) mencuri, iv) bergaul bebas, v) terpengaruh game online. vi) cenderung berbohong, vii) pacaran