Sentences with phrase «single teen mothers»
The last thing our society needs another generation of single teen mothers.
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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?
Let the libertines fix the AIDS epidemic, the soaring teen pregnancy rate, the soaring divorce rate, slow down the abortion industry, help the many thousands of single mothers who had the courage to carry to term.
Before such folks criticize any religious take on s * x, they should fix the AIDS epidemic, fix the teen prgnancy rate, help the millions of struggling single mothers, fix the divorce rate, slow down the abortion industry.
Being raised by a single mother raises the risk of teen pregnancy, marrying with less than a high school degree, and forming a marriage where both partners have less than a high school degree.
I am a single mother of a teen.
I am a single Mother of a teen and tween, who help keep me young, but I also enjoy my adult time.
In a contemporary adaptation of Langston Hughes» celebrated play, the holiday musical drama BLACK NATIVITY follows Langston (Jacob Latimore), a street-wise teen from Baltimore raised by a single mother, as he journeys to New York City to spend the Christmas holiday with his estranged relatives Reverend Cornell and Aretha Cobbs (Forest Whitaker and Angela Bassett).
Linda Hamilton returns as Sarah Connor, now a single mother to rebellious teen John Connor (Edward Furlong), during the late nineties.
Lisa (Paquin) is a Manhattan teen living with her single mother Joan (Smith - Cameron), an actress starring in her breakout stage role while seeing a new man (Reno).
There, one macho teen proudly proclaims that all the gangstas he hangs with were raised by single - mothers because «fathers make niggers soft and prissy.»
Some of you may have seen his first two features — the teen - drama / time - travel film The Girl Who Leapt Through Time and the techno - apocalyptic dysfunctional family dramedy Summer Wars — but the director tops himself with his third and latest film Wolf Children, a stunningly beautiful, unabashedly sentimental, and surprisingly complex story that works as both a coming - of - age film and a study of the trials of being a single mother.
Also premiering at TIFF is «About Ray,» about how a single mother (Watts again) and a lesbian grandmother (Susan Sarandon) deal with the news that their teen daughter and granddaughter (Elle Fanning) wants to transition into becoming a male.
Based on the novel of the same name by Margaret Mazzantini, the film stars Penelope Cruz as a single mother who returns with her teen son...
On average, single - parent families had only half the income of two - parent families, and this difference accounted for about half the gap between the two sets of children in high school dropout and nonmarital teen birth rates (in regression models that also controlled for race, sex, mother's and father's education, number of siblings, and residence).31
When McLanahan and Sandefur entered parenting into the regressions (instead of income), they found that the poorer parenting skills and behaviors in single - parent families explained about half the gap in high school dropout rates, but only a fifth of the gap in teen birth rates (again controlling for race, sex, mother's and father's education, number of siblings, and residence).
Although teen mothers are an at - risk group due to their age, and they often face additional risk factors such as poverty, low education and single parenthood, we have not included them in this review.
While there have been dramatic changes in the lives of parents as welfare caseloads declined, more single mothers entered and remained in the labour force, and teen pregnancy and out - of - wedlock birth rates declined, the outcomes for children have changed very little.
Being a single parent and a teen mother am always in a rush to find the necessities my son requires.
They have an increased risk of dropping out of school, and teen mothers are more likely to be single parents — a condition associated with higher rates of poverty.
Recent research shows that boys raised in single - mother homes are at a higher risk of teen pregnancy.