Educators are beginning to address the needs of children living in single-parent families and to recognize that the existing societal ideology of the family as a breadwinning husband and homemaking wife living with their children is problematic. However, single-parented children may suffer discrimination through school policies and teachers' attitudes. To determine teachers' psychosocial and academic expectations for children from one- and two-parent families, 100 teachers completed questionnaires. In addition, 102 parents were asked to respond to the same questionnaire in the way in which they believed a teacher would. Results indicated that the teachers had lower expectations for children from single-parent families. Parents perceived that teachers would have lower expectations for children from single-parent families. The findings suggest that teachers' negative expectations for single-parented children may have an impact on their students' performance. (Author/JAC)