5 Issue 1 Fall 2011 Article 4 2-24-2012 Academic Achievement of Children in Single Parent Homes: A Critical Review Mark S. Barajas Western Michigan University‚ mark.s.barajas@wmich.edu Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarworks.wmich.edu/hilltopreview Part of the Education Commons Recommended Citation Barajas‚ Mark S. (2011) "Academic Achievement of Children in Single Parent Homes: A Critical Review‚" The Hilltop Review: Vol. 5: Iss. 1‚ Article 4. Available at: http://scholarworks
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Single parent homes: How are they affecting our youth? The cause of behavioral and/or emotional problems among our youth could come from being raised in a single parent home. Many children resort to negative acts of behavior because of limited parental supervision within the single parent household. Children are two to three times more likely to have emotional and behavioral problems in single parent homes (Maginnis‚ 1997). Research and etiology on the problem behaviors in childhood and adolescence
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Living in a single parent home was a struggle‚no we’re not crack babies or abused but grew up in the struggle and faced obstacles every day. As twin brothers growing up in the hood we learned how to make the most of not having a lot‚ momma taught us to be thankful for what we had and to become leaders not followers. Mom would get us up every morning for school with the smell of breakfast in the air‚ most mornings we didn’t always get what we wanted but momma always provided us with what we needed
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Single Parent Home vs. Two Parent Home Kendria Threatt COM 170/ Elements of University Composition and Communication I December 7‚ 2011 Monique Derr Single Parent Home vs. Two Parent Home How do you feel about raising children in a single parent home or in a home where both parents are present? It is very shocking to know that most people do not think about these situations before starting a family. In today’s
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Patrick Ingram English 120-17 Obese but it’s not my fault Here is your brand new baby boy! You were born twenty inches long‚ about seven pounds; the doctors tell your parents everything is great with you. Life is good but that only lasts for so long; your parents are young always arguing eventually your father feels like he cannot take it anymore and becomes fed up‚ gets his stuff and disappears. You are young and naïve‚ you begin to think that you were the reason that your father leaves; that
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Differences In Single- and Two-Parent Household Scores Differences In Single- and Two-Parent Households Criterion Referenced Competency Test Scores Kristy Griffin‚ Cassie Furlow‚ and Jondrea Randall Columbus State University‚ Valdosta State University‚ and Georgia Southern University Our group decided to research the impact of single parent versus two parent homes on student
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| Single-Parent Homes | The Effect of Single-Parent Homes on Academic Achievement | | | Abstract Children from single parent homes are not as negatively impacted academically as some in the popular media suggest. The number of children living in single-parent homes has risen dramatically over the last 10 years. Despite prior research stating that single-parenting itself has a negative impact on academic achievement‚ new findings show that it is other social and environmental factors that
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children will spend all or part of their lives in a single parent home.”(Dowd)The family structure has changed significantly in the last fifty years with higher percentages of marriages ending in divorce‚ and higher rates of childbearing out of wedlock. In this study the writer will show that the children of these families are affected dramatically both negatively and positively. Problem Statement Children being raised in single parent homes have a higher chance of poverty‚ delinquency and high
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of single parent homes. As compared to over forty to fifty years ago‚ single-parent families are common in today’s world. A single parent is a parent with one or more children‚ who is not living with any of the children’s other parents. The percentage of children who live with two parents has been declining among all racial and ethnic groups throughout the years. It has been found that children in single-parent homes generally fare worse than those in homes with two parents. In today’s single parent
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2/20/2011 One Parent Homes Versus Two Parent Homes Traditionally‚ the family unit was made up of father‚ mother‚ and children. Today‚ one out of every two children in the United States will live in a single-parent family at some time before they reach age 18. According the United States Census Bureau‚ in 2002 about 20 million children lived in a household with only their mother or their father. This is more than one-fourth of all children in the United States. Most single-parent situations
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