Sentences with phrase «single mothers and children»

Avison Young's Vancouver staff (above) constructed a fence and vegetable garden boxes and weeded and power - washed at the YWCA Alder Gardens housing project for single mothers and their children as part of Avison Young's Global Day of Giving.

The sales rep, who is with Royal LePage Real Estate Services in Oakville, raised funds for Home Suite Hope, a Halton - based charity that helps re-establish single mothers and their children.

She focused her campaign on family homelessness, which frequently means single mothers and children escaping from abusive relationships.

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International comparisons indicate that single mothers and their children fare substantially better in countries with supportive social and economic family policies.

Policy debates about child poverty and welfare reform, which once focused almost exclusively on single mothers and their children, have in recent years begun to train the spotlight on fathers.

, and demonstrates that promoting marriage has been an ineffective way of reducing poverty among single mothers and their children.

Our recent research adds to the growing body of evidence that promoting marriage is not the answer to the problems facing single mothers and their children.

National Council of Single Mothers and their Children This organisation aims to empower single mothers — particularly those living in hardship — by giving them access to information and support.

Some studies of American families find no differences at all between the children of single mothers and the children from other household types.

National Council of Single Mothers and their Children A self - help group that provides information, advocacy and referral services

So it's no surprise that, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, about one - third of single mothers and their children live below the poverty line.

The show, face à nous, is a poignant portrayal of the bonds shared by single mothers and their children.

Derogatory remarks are made about single mothers and their children.

ABC NEWS — Aug 23 — A growing number of sexual predators and pedophiles are taking advantage of online anonymity and dating sites to prey on single mothers and their children.

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.

All too many «pro-lifers» also have no problem being pro-war, for which our pockets seem to be bottomless, yet complain about every dime spent on programs for family planning, support for single mothers such as day care assistance, Head Start, WIC, education — things that help young single mothers and their children.

What are we personally doing to alleviate the plight of single mothers and children with absent fathers?

Single mothers and their children make up the new poor of our society.

The sales rep, who is with Royal LePage Real Estate Services in Oakville, raised funds for Home Suite Hope, a Halton - based charity that helps re-establish single mothers and their children.

There is no reason for women not to follow a similar path and create the society they claim to want, including the promotion of beneficial actions on behalf of the impoverished single mother and her children.

The Colonial Lodge Motel has been home for a week to the single mother and her children, including three sets of fraternal twins under age 4.

WIC, which provides extra nutrition to low - income pregnant women and infants who may not be able to afford the food they need, enrolls women and children who live at or below 185 percent of the federal poverty level, or below $ 27,214 per year for a single mother and her child.

A violent Santa Rosa, CA apartment fire that decimated a Santa Rosa apartment inhabited by a single mother and her children has tentatively been assigned cause by the local fire inspector.

Not exact matches

She grew up poor on New York's Lower East Side, the middle child of a single mother who washed and ironed clothes for money.

2016.01.28 RBC employees and retirees raise record funds for Canadian communities With the assistance of community organizations, a child receives health - related services, a single mother is able to provide regular meals for her family and an elderly person can live independently in their own home...

With the assistance of community organizations, a child receives health - related services, a single mother is able to provide regular meals for her family and an elderly person can live independently in their own home...

Seana Meek, an Alberta native and a single mother, was working for Futurekids, which taught children computer basics, when Yahoo hired her to organize the Canadian sites in its directory.

Both the defenders and critics of medical transfer payments inevitably focus on poor, unemployed, single mothers or their children when making their cases for reform.

by Lori Gottlieb — a single mother who conceived her only child with donor sperm rather than miss out on motherhood as she has on marriage — is a frank and excruciatingly personal look into some of the sexual revolution's lonelier venues, including the creation of children by anonymous or absent sperm donors, the utter corrosiveness of taking a consumerist approach to romance, and the miserable effects of advancing age on one's sexual marketability.

In that sense, the church institution may still succeed if they change their emphasis from attendance and building projects, being «in the spot light» and hating other people's «sins», and avoidance of the locally wounded, downtown poor, the widows among us, the children of single mothers, and so forth.

Look how giving more money to people for each child caused the black community to have generations of single mothers with multiple children and no father.

Unless you support government a-ssistence for impoverished single mothers, affordable health care, planned parenthood, and teaching children proper birth control, you are hypocrites who are actually encouraging abortion.

But in the six years the young, single mother worked and worshipped at the evangelical megachurch, Arden didn't take her child to get a single shot.

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.

Murray comes up with a very useful measure of community dysfunction: the percentage of «problematic people,» which he arrives at by combining prime - age males not making a living, single mothers raising children, a guesstimate of prime - age adults who are living alone, and those uninvolved in any community activity.

(The average welfare family size is 2.6; some families have two children and a single mother, others only one child.)

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.

Home conditions become difficult: many mothers have to bring up children, as single parents due to divorce, labour migration and deaths in civil conflict.

When we follow Jesus, He leads us to addicts and criminals, to the homeless and prostitutes, to abandoned children and single mothers.

We urgently need to design pastoral strategies (and even select the times for our meetings and worship services) according to the needs of that great mass of excluded people who form part of non-traditional families: single mothers, families divided by divorce, grandmothers who raise their grandchildren, widows, orphans, street children, etc..

Each scarf, headband, and pillow cover is handcrafted by single mothers, enabling them to provide food, shelter and clothing for their children through empowered employment.

The defense of religious freedom, and the encouragement marriage provides to fathers and mothers to have their own children, and not leave them to single mothers.

Two - thirds of the minimum wage workers, who are earning an average across this country of five dollars and fifty cents an hour (they're in this hotel today, and you'll pass them in the hall over and over again), are single mothers with three children.

Thus, if a single mother works to support her family and must leave her children unattended for a few hours after school, it could be construed as neglect and must be reported.

Listen I keep seeing bumper stickers like «you can't be both Catholic and pro-choice» these are not reflective of my faith, theser are slogans made for propaganda, I have 2 beautiful children and I have never been on a position where abortion could even play a part, but it is a legal option to the public at large; this being said even the bible calls for us to be good citizens, and to obey the law, I believe that this is a matter that belongs with the family and not the state; no matter how we criminalize abortion, they will not stop, but people will go under - ground and more fatalities will occur, I rather see the government placing incentives on more conseling for these expectant mothers and more outreach done at church levels, to reduce the debate to a single slogan is dangerous and will not accomplish the ultimately goal of preventing abortions my two humble cents

But it is not an option for those who, for various reasons, are not in a position to work full - time - the elderly, single mothers with small children, and others.

In the upside down Rawlsian universe, a single mother who managed to improve her lot and that of her children through hard work, thrift, and discipline would find her somewhat greater resources subject to redistribution to another single mother who, say, was addicted to drugs, neglected her children, and refused to work.

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.

The isolation of single persons or childless couples from adults who are married and have children perpetuates the Victorian way of ordering relationships in a congregation; they organized all church activities to give optimal support to their vision of the ideal Christian family: a father, a mother, and several children.4