Sentences with phrase «mother is the single parent»

My mother was a single parent, and she worked in a Chinese restaurant, throwing a wok over flames to fill orders.

My mother was a single parent of 6 children I was the youngest.

My mother is a single parent.

The fact he was born during the World War II had no direct impact on the Hammons family since David's mother was a single parent and there was no father to go overseas and fight the Germans.

Not exact matches

Like increasing numbers of low - income mothers and fathers, Ms. Navarro is at the center of a new collision that pits sophisticated workplace technology against some fundamental requirements of parenting, with particularly harsh consequences for poor single mothers.

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.

Doesn't this virtually guarantee a bunch of teen mothers, since pregnant teens are likely to come from single - parent households and not even know their other parent?

Family breakdown and poverty The breakdown of stable family life, and the consequent rise in single - parent families, usually run by the mother, is one of the greatest contributors to poverty.

Shall he be an adulterer within the community, spreading this behavior amongst the brothers until we have what we have today, a colossal divorce rate, broken homes and countless single parent homes to children deprived of a mother and a father.

Tracy (played by Evan Rachel Wood) is angry at her well - meaning mother, Mel (played by Holly Hunter), whose harried life as a single parent makes her resort too often to responses like, «We'll discuss this later.»

Our point is that on the whole the nuclear mother - father team in intact first marriages does a better job of raising children than do single parents, stepparents or unmarried couples.

So today we see single parent families with four or five children not two of which have the same father and the mother has never been married.

Tracy (played by Evan Rachel Wood) is angry at her well - meaning mother, Mel (played by Holly Hunter), whose harried life as a single parent makes her resort too often to responses like,...

There was a significant increase in the number of homes with only one parent, and particularly in the number of homes with single mothers.

The folks start groaning and complaining: «I bet his parents were rich and paid no taxes» «He did not have to grow up in the ghetto with a single mother» «I heard a minority had a better time but they picked the white guy instead»

as for those who believe that all blacks are raised in families with multiple fathers and single mothers... i have had both of my parents in the same house together my entire life.

Boethius... you didn't mention a Mother... I'm curious whether (like myself), you've been both a mother and father to yr children... I have a feeling that it's the maternal ties (iin my case, overly compensated) that are most difficult to break, especially seen in single parent (male) famMother... I'm curious whether (like myself), you've been both a mother and father to yr children... I have a feeling that it's the maternal ties (iin my case, overly compensated) that are most difficult to break, especially seen in single parent (male) fammother and father to yr children... I have a feeling that it's the maternal ties (iin my case, overly compensated) that are most difficult to break, especially seen in single parent (male) families.

This is different from the authors» approach to single - parent families; they urge the church to support single - parent families in every way possible, even while continuing to articulate the view that the mother - father family is the ideal.

There are too many single - parent families, too many working mothers and distracted fathers, too many assaults on family rhythms from without, and there is too much parental incompetence for Christianity to count on the family alone.

As a Single Parent / Mother of a high school student at Detroit Cass Tech (Donovan People - Jones) here in the City of Detroit I am initiating this Petition on behalf of all students and parents around the country and even Canada.

To be an African - American kid and grow up in the inner - city with a single parent mother and not being financially stable and to be where I am today, I think I've defeated the odds.

The policies persued post the New Deal destroyed the black family not Slavery in 1915 a Black child had a 70 % probability of beinf born into a two parent home, in 2015 the same child had a 70 % chance of being born tp a single mother.

«Today, with more single - parent households, more working mothers and more children in poverty, school lunches are more important than ever, «the commission said.

As a single mother, I don't care what your situation is, who is or isn't helping you, or what your beliefs are as a parent.

According to Custodial Mothers and Fathers and Their Child Support: 2009, a report released by the U.S. Census Bureau every two years (and most recently in December 2011), there are approximately 13.7 million single parents in the United States today, and those parents are responsible for raising 22 million children.

Ana Slocum, Articles Editor and Author of Panda & Ananaso Ana is a single mother who stumbled into Attachment Parenting after the birth of her only son, Niko, in 2010.

According to the Census Bureau, in 2012 the poverty rate among children living with only their mother was 47.2 %; by contrast, the poverty rate among children living with their married parents was 11.1 %, meaning that a child living with a single mother was almost five times as likely to be poor as a child living with married parents.

Daughters raised by single mothers are more likely to engage in early sexual activity and become pregnant; their brothers are twice as likely to spend time in jail as their peers raised by married parents.

May 5: Reflections On Mother's Day By An Adoptive Mom - In - Waiting As a single, Asian, hopeful adoptive parent in the domestic adoption pool, Melinda knows it may be a while before she finds a match.

While subsidized housing assistance isn't limited to single parent families, it's one of the most common rental assistance programs available to single mothers and their children.

In addition, some states presume that in the case of unmarried parents, the mother automatically has custody, while others expect single mothers to file for custody, even if the father is not involved.

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.

Many of the women who appear in the film discuss issues that, while not gone entirely, were more widespread 30 years ago — the denial of assisted reproduction to lesbians or single women; the lack of legal recognition for non-biological parents; creating then - untested contracts between a known donor and a female couple; a mother being denied entrance to the hospital where her partner has just given birth to their severely premature child.

Single parents deserve loads of respect — so don't let days like Mother's Day be forgotten!

While some may conclude that Single Parents» Day is just a variation of Mother's Day and Father's Day, it's much more than that.

Modern single parent, Loretta Merritt says, «These days when you say I choose to become a single mother, people understand; they often even know someone else who's done it.»

Instead there are single parent families, teenage pregnancies and rebellious children not to mention working mothers, stay - at - home dads and homes were both parents are breadwinners.

It doesn't matter if the mother has an active parenting partner or is a single mother, we all need help.

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.

Single fathers are much less likely to be black — 15 % are — as compared with single mothers (28 %), but more likely to be black than fathers in married two - parent households Single fathers are much less likely to be black — 15 % are — as compared with single mothers (28 %), but more likely to be black than fathers in married two - parent households single mothers (28 %), but more likely to be black than fathers in married two - parent households (7 %).

What is better a SAH mom who is basically a single mother or two dedicated parents?

In what is perhaps the most comprehensive investigation of the implications of different kinds of family structures for the well - being of teenagers, Thomas Deleire and Ariel Kalil studied more than 11,000 adolescents raised in ten different kinds of households, including, for example, households with married parents, biological cohabiting parents, single mothers (divorced, always - single, and cohabiting considered separately), divorced single mothers in multi-generational households, and always - single mothers in multigenerational households.

Let's make one thing clear, there is nothing wrong with being a single mother or raising children as a single parent.

Enough of the funny stuff, I am a single mother and thought that it was just me but the more I interact with other parents I'm in good company.

Additionally, adolescents in single - mother and single - father families are at higher risk of risky behaviors, victimization, and mental distress compared to those in two - parent families.

This means that even if a single mother is stressed or overwhelmed in her role as a parent, it does not predict how much time she will spend with her child.

«There is a feeling of supremacy or superiority of two parent families that is pervasive in this society, regardless the numbers that clearly illustrate single - parent households are plentiful,» says Kelli Kirk, a Seattle writer and mother of two who recently remarried after four years of solo parenting.

To all the mothers, fathers, guardians and single parents, our service is specifically designed for you.

Completely lost in the media coverage was the fact that the Pew Research study wasn't asking about «single mothers» in general — meaning any woman currently parenting without a partner.

The study appears to be good news for single mothers and stay - at - home dads, two marked parenting shifts that are defining this generation.