Sentences with phrase «despite being a single parent»

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That's despite economic advantages and a single, widowed mother who, by available reports, was a devoted parent, if overwhelmed by her son's persistent and increasingly alarming behavioral problems.

Francis has been so single - minded in buildinghis career that during his sophomore year of high school in Scottsdale, Ariz., he made the decision — despite the misgivings of his parents, John and Bee — tobe homeschooled, giving him more flexibility in his travel and practiceschedules.

People aren't too happy with Highlights Magazine these days, mostly for their latest response as to why they don't include same - sex families in their publication, despite being inclusive of all other family types like single parents, interracial, and multi-generational.

Though statistics show that more black children are in single - parent homes than other groups, new research notes that their fathers — often young, low - income, unmarried African - American men — are more involved than one might conclude, despite comments from prominent black men such as Bill Cosby and Sen. Barack Obama.

I'm not a single parent despite the feeling on the bad days, but I do solo parent.

Gay men and women along with bisexuals are becoming more confident and single parents are, despite a certain amount of stigma, becoming more of a norm in British society.

In 1998 Harman headed up New Labour's controversial cut to single parent benefit despite the majority of those affected being women.

Personally, I'm not sure how accurate that is, despite doing a survey due to the fact there are so many glaring differences and hardships between dating as a single person, and dating as a single parent.

A profile with a picture of a perfect - looking girl attracted three times as much attention as that of a «normal» one, despite such additional attributes as the preference in dating exclusively single parents, being a Wiccan, collecting marbles, and having six cats one of which is called Satan.

The website is dedicated to single parents residing in the United Kingdom that are looking to find a compatible match, despite all odds.

This has been construed as the triumph of traditional family roles and the downfall of the feminist movement, despite the youthful sentiment of «free love» and the growing number of single - parent homes [3].

Despite these benefits for single parents, New York isn't the best state in our rankings because of the high cost of living here.

Moreover, despite commentary from some that marriage and family are not declining but merely changing, recent studies in both Europe and the United States still find that children raised in single - parent households suffer negative effects.

Whether that includes doing most of the disciplining, driving the children to events, or helping out with homework, when one person feels the pressure of doing most of the work, it can feel like single parenting despite being in a marriage.