Sentences with phrase «being a single parent leave»

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And the great worry is that young people, who traditionally provide the bulk of demand for single - family homes, are taking longer to leave their parents» basement or bid goodbye to their roommates and buy a place of their own.

Funny, wallace, you mention science because the left consistently refuses to accept the decades of social science research that says single - and step - parent families are not in fact suitable alternatives to the the traditional 2 - parent family.

More than half of the families are single parent because the men leave (no honor, no courage, no values).

My mum has lived in the Swiss Alps since I left home (I'm the only child of a single parent, so she wanted a change of scene at the same time and we'd spent several winters there already)-- so I also spend a lot of time there.

I'm a single parent whose husband left 9 years ago and am raising two teenagers who take up much of my time.

At their offices and workspaces, the demand from parents for time off means single women without kids are routinely pressured into working late, scheduling vacations for off - seasons, and otherwise picking up the slack that the work / life balance leaves undone by their colleagues.»

It probably would have been easier for me to breastfeed exclusively if I'd gotten pregnant at 18 (resulting in an unsuccessful shotgun marriage, thanks to the fact that her parents have means, unlike most young single mothers» parents) as Elicia did, then had * another * baby right afterward without regard to the stability of my situation, and not worked, leaving it to the government or my parents to support my family.

Johnson says he doesn't know why Persephone's mother left, but that «We suspect postpartum depression played a part,» and that in his early days of parenting without a partner «I was so nervous and scared about being a father in general, but now I was a single father and had to fulfill two roles.

It can be very distressing, and it manifests itself as an attachment oftentimes to a single parent and great distress on the part of the child when that parent leaves.

By Natalie Bloomer and Samir Jeraj Single parent families could be left destitute and at risk of deportation following a secret anti-immigration initiative by the Home Office, Politics.co.uk can reveal.

Wilson said of Benn he i matures with age, everyone from Denis Healey to greald Kaufman said they'd have left labour had Benn won the deputy leadership, they wouldn't have joined the SDP though, my parents voted foot, didn't like Wilson, wouldn't gave voted Benn Wilson begged Shirley Williams to stay in the party, when she left in February 1981, 1 month before the SDP formed, Scargill he's thE bloke who single handedly let that her beat him in the miners strike, and Kinnock didn't want him in the party as far back as 1980

Between being a «single mama» for the last 5 and a half weeks, to moving in with my parent's place for a week, then back home, then to leave again for another 5 days due to more construction in our home, and back again this week to prep our house to sell — my head is spinning!

Between being a «single mama» for the last 5 and a half weeks, to moving in with my parent's place for a week, then back home, then to leave again for another 5 days due to more construction in our home, and back again this week... [Read more...]

Between getting up early in the morning to send kids to school and rushing to work, between attending PTAs and managing weekly car - pools, single parents are left exhausted.

The choice to be with the dating partner or children generally means the other is left waiting... Even before dating, single parents begin a series of conversations with their children that ask, «What if I began dating?»

Browse our personals and pictures, leave a personal of your own, and you'll have plenty of local single parents who will be eager to meet you.

Not even single parents looking to date, are not left out.

I'm a single parent and my son is awesome, but has left for college.

Here's a guide to the sites to check out — feel free to leave your own recommendations... previously ruled out anyone with children on a dating site are now happily dating (or married to) single parents they met in real life.

Stevie is a single parent, and when he's shot and killed on duty, his three daughters (Grace Johnston, Rhea Silver - Smith, and Blair Swanson) are left with nowhere to go.

Typical of other films where a child disappears, there's an immediate search with authorities involved but not even a single clue comes up, and the parents are left hanging.

Even the adept romantic comedy One Fine Day, which has a lot to say about the perils and complications of being a single parent, intermittently takes leave of its grown - up concerns and traffics in the contrivances and coincidences of its elected Hollywood genre.

The story line is deliberately, intensely claustrophobic, shot in the depths of catacomb - like rehearsal rooms and shadowy backstage corridors; it's almost unrelievedly plotted but for Paul Reiser as Andrew's well - meaning but hapless single parent, and one forlorn girlfriend, Nicole (Melissa Benoist) left by the wayside as our hero discards her on his way to becoming «one of the greats.»

She worries that such schools are «draining funds from the traditional public schools,» even though there is not a single state that takes money away from public schools unless a child leaves them for a school the parent prefers.

In a powerful summary article, Sara McClanahan and Christopher Jencks tell us that today 40 percent of the families who are headed by a single mother earn incomes that leave them below the poverty line, while only 8 percent of dual - parent families are in a similar predicament.

The government should change the rules for, for example, single parents so that RRSP money can be left to children in a will instead of a spouse without the huge tax implications.

I am Angela Mordy from USA a single parent, before my husband died he left us with so much DEBT that we could not cope with life, I was totally confused on what to do.

As just one example, if you're a single parent, have three children and earn $ 60,000 a year (in this case more than the $ 50,000 average), the new OSAP calculator will reveal that you are eligible for more than $ 16,000 of non-repayable aid, making the average university tuition in a year free with money left over for books and fees.

«At least 80 % of the more than 35,000 BC children on welfare are growing up in single - parent families, the vast majority of them headed by women,» says Alana Prochuk, Manager of Public Legal Education at West Coast LEAF and also a participant in the Welfare Food Challenge.

A single top up benefit that is provided «equally» to all employees each time they become a parent should be carefully evaluated to ensure it is not «effectively» discriminatory to employees who take both pregnancy and parental leave.

Another area is family status where, for example, a single parent needs to pick up a child at 4 p.m. but working hours end at 5 p.m. and the mother is asking to leave early three days a week.

Now, if you are the primary bread winner, or a single parent, your family still has to figure out how it is going to come up with income replacement to pay all the other bills you left behind.

This coverage is a great comfort to parents — especially single parents — traveling with children who would be left unattended if the insured is hospitalized on their trip.

And Ajay's wife, who as a homemaker and a single parent was left in an emotional trauma and financial crunches.

Baseline characteristics of the 87 patients were as follows: mean age 38.6 (SD 11.0) years; 69 men; 64 single; 24 lived alone, 17 lived with a partner, 31 lived with parents, and the remainder with others; 61 left school at 16 years; 76 were unemployed, five were in paid employment, six were in voluntary employment or similar, two had never worked; 64 were unskilled and 21 were skilled or professional; 78 had a diagnosis of schizophrenia, eight had schizoaffective psychosis, and two had delusional disorder; the median (range) duration of illness was 11 (1 - 42) years; median (range) number of admissions to hospital was 3 (0 - 20); 10 had a forensic psychiatric history; and 12 had a history of substance abuse.

«It is an unexpected, uncontrollable and unwelcome event where one parent leaves the home and the other is overwhelmed with the demands of single parenthood and a lowered standard of living.»

Children of step - parent families and single parent families are more likely to leave home at an earlier age and not return.

To help recipients — most of them single parents — prepare for, find, and keep jobs, it also offered an array of services and incentives, including: mandatory employment - related, social, and health services; intensive case management; a modest financial work incentive that increased the portion of recipients» earnings that could be disregarded in calculating cash benefits; extended transitional child care assistance for recipients who left welfare for work; and a parental responsibility mandate that, among other things, required recipients to make sure their children attended school.

Finally, in the unlikely event that the United States took a hard turn to the left, and adopted a Swedish - style welfare state, there is good reason to believe that the success divide documented by Reeves and Howard between children from married and single parents would continue to separate children from these two types of families.

However, only 31.7 % of these parents without social class data left education at 18 or older compared with 48.4 % of parents overall in the sample; 23.1 % of them were single parents compared with an overall figure of 13.7 % single parents in the sample.

By contrast, the children of women who are on their own as parents, and LEFT alone — those who have no divorce stress or custody hassles undermining authority, and no financial problems or social pariah status or social worker meddling (compare widowed mothers versus welfare mothers versus struggling working single mother with young children)-- do just fine.

Gen X homebuyers were largely latch - key kids, she says, left alone while both parents or the single parent worked.