are people like Edin and Kefalas who bring out human element to single parents. When you bring more of a human element to a reader you tend to have more people towards your side. They may not have had all statistics for this argument but‚ the ethos and pathos were well written. The America we live in today has single parents 1 in 3. Single parents for the most part do not want to be single parents they would like to have another parent in the house in order to help their kids to grow up to be fine
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SINGLE PARENTS Being a parent also means being faced with huge responsibilities. Having a family is one of the unevitable stage in life which comes to anybody’s life and bearing a child is a gift. But‚ not all of these stuffs comes with a happy ending. According to the National Statistics Coordination Board‚ there are approximately 14 million (out of 92.34 million as of May 2010) single parents in the Philippines and still counting. These figures are growing not only in the Philippines but also
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paper on sigle parents and the web site lost it so now I have to start all over. I am so amazed at the amount of single parents out their today. I myself is a single parent and I have to put my daughter trough school‚ pay the rent and bills. I understand that it is hard and that we don’t get any help but we make it happen the best way we could. I marvel at kids that excel in school and graduate at the top of their classes knowing their situation at home. I congratulate the parents my pushing their
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balanced the task of being a single parent along with two jobs‚ giving up in order to ensure that her child would have a happy‚ healthy childhood. She is my role model‚ she was my first best friend‚ and I look up to her more than I have any other person in my lifetime. However‚ there was one night many months ago that we found ourselves talking over dinner‚ and the subject wandered onto that of our family‚ our background‚ and my upbringing. My mother -- as any other parent would -- had always tried
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Challenges of being a single parent No milk in the refrigerator! No peanut butter sandwich tonight! Can’t go to the movies this weekend! My thirteen year old son has a problem with everything including chores and I can’t get my 15 year old daughter to come out of her bedroom! As a single parent I can say that there are quite a number of challenges of being a single parent. One challenge that most single parents face is that of being able to support the family financially especially if that person
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Single Parent Essay My name is Melissa and I’m a single parent to a wonderful little boy. I call my son my miracle baby because I had half an ovary removed and a bunch of other problems and was told I may never have children. My son means everything to me and I would do anything for him. I decided to go back to school to make a better life for my son and show him that if you put your mind to it‚ anything is possible no matter what your age is. When I first seen my son on the monitor I know my
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Single Parent Problem For many years‚ children growing up in a single parent family have been viewed as different. With much speculation‚ this topic has become a very intriguing argument. What people must understand is that properly raising a child does not rely on the structure of a family but should be more focused on the process or values that are taught to these children as they learn to mature. Being raised by only one parent seems impossible to many yet over the decades it has become
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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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Why do adolescents and parents have such a tough time getting along? The reason that I asked that question at the beginning of the semester is because I went through a lot of conflict with my parents growing up. So‚ I just wondered if there was any research that would help answer some questions I had. It seemed like from about the time I turned twelve or thirteen until the time I turned twenty-one my parents and I never really got along. Now that I am getting older and look back on it all I see that
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Volume 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:
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