Sentences with phrase «poor white mother»

It doesn't broadcast those ideas, but folds them into a story that's also a maternal melodrama about a poor white mother (Minnie Driver) and a black daughter (Gugu Mbatha - Raw) who's as talented as she is haunted by her place in the world.

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If they spent 1/10 the time, money and attention to unwed mothers, poor families, and the racial divide in adoptions (everyone wants a white baby, no one wants ethnic babies, ethnic toddlers, or white or ethnic teenagers), then maybe women would be less scared about having problem / unwanted pregnancies.

His family was dirt poor, and his mother was bitter because she'd married «down,» (her family included a governor of Texas), but there was no way in thunder she was going to let her standards slide so she paid more for white cornmeal.

He grew up angry and alienated and poor, the son of a single mother in the South Bronx, feeling completely cut off from mainstream white America.

For the first act, we are introduced to our main characters: a poor Latin - American mother and daughter (Carmen Ejogo and Zoe Soul, the real hearts of this film), an insufferable yuppie couple on the brink of divorce (Zach Gilford and Kiele Sanchez) from which we get the lion's share of our Crash - style white guilt narrative, and Frank Grillo as a grieving father / ex-soldier who feels the urge to Purge one particular soul on this night.

Bullock's role as white mother who takes in a poor black teen and helps propel him to success contains just the right cuts of juicy dramatic meat that the Academy loves to sink their teeth into.

We feel proud and cautiously optimistic when Carrie finally stands up to her mother, but Senior Prom, or «Love Among the Stars,» doesn't go as well as it might have for poor Carrie White or her classmates.

INEQUALITY Washington Post: D.C. is misspending millions of dollars intended to help the city's poorest students Pacific Standard: How White Women Kept Jim Crow Alive Washington Post: D.C. Public Schools residency fraud often committed by teachers Mother Jones: Parents Didn't Want Fracking Near Their School

Silas, the son of a poor, single black mother, and Larry, the child of white lower - middle - class parents, were both outsiders, Silas because of his color, Larry because he was quiet and a little odd, his nose always buried in horror novels.

Her family is desperately poor, but her life is full of simple pleasures, like raising her black - and - white speckled goat, and having her mother brush her hair by the light of an oil lamp.

These included characteristics on multiple levels of the child's biopsychosocial context: (1) child factors: race / ethnicity (white, black, Hispanic, and Asian / Pacific Islander / Alaska Native), age, gender, 9 - month Bayley Mental and Motor scores, birth weight (normal, moderately low, or very low), parent - rated child health (fair / poor vs good / very good / excellent), and hours per week in child care; (2) parent factors: maternal age, paternal age, SES (an ECLS - B — derived variable that includes maternal and paternal education, employment status, and income), maternal marital status (married, never married, separated / divorced / widowed), maternal general health (fair / poor versus good / very good / excellent), maternal depression (assessed by the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale at 9 months and the World Mental Health Composite International Diagnostic Interview at 2 years), prenatal use of tobacco and alcohol (any vs none), and violence against the mother; (3) household factors: single - parent household, number of siblings (0, 1, 2, or 3 +), language spoken at home (English vs non-English), neighborhood good for raising kids (excellent / very good, good, or fair / poor), household urbanicity (urban city, urban county, or rural), and modified Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment — Short Form (HOME - SF) score.

Second, we hypothesized that children of single or minority mothers would have poorer overall adjustment (i.e., greater internalizing and externalizing problems, lower quality of life, and worse glycemic control) than children of married or White mothers.

One explanation for this difference may be that non-White mothers and single mothers of children, especially those with chronic illness, experience more stress and poorer psychological and physical well - being, factors associated with negative parenting behaviors (Auslander, Thompson, Dreitzer, White, & Santiago, 1997; Eckshtain, Ellis, Kolmodin, & Naar - King, 2010; Forehand et al., 2012; Thompson et al., 2001).

When my mother was extremely poor, living in a small space (read: starving artist), she filled a big round vase with branches that she painted white and hung glittery white angels on them.