Sentences with phrase «single with grown children»

I'm single with grown children and just ready to do me and enjoy life.

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The groundbreaking work that Daniel Patrick Moynihan did in 1965, on the black family, is an example — along with the critical research of psychologist Judith Wallerstein over several decades on the impact of divorce on children; Barbara Dafoe Whitehead's well - known work on the outcomes of single parenthood for children; Sara McLanahan and Gary Sandefur's seminal book, Growing Up with a Single Parent; and David Blankenhorn's Fatherless America, another lengthy summarization of the bad empirical news about family brsingle parenthood for children; Sara McLanahan and Gary Sandefur's seminal book, Growing Up with a Single Parent; and David Blankenhorn's Fatherless America, another lengthy summarization of the bad empirical news about family brSingle Parent; and David Blankenhorn's Fatherless America, another lengthy summarization of the bad empirical news about family breakup.

Woman is concerned about how having a baby could change her life 16 % Woman can't afford baby now 21 % Woman has problems with relationship or wants to avoid single parenthood 12 % Woman is unready for responsibility 21 % Woman doesn't want others to know she has had se x or is pregnant 1 % Woman is not mature enough, or is too young to have a child 11 % Woman has all the children she wanted, or has all grown - up children 8 % Husband or partner wants woman to have an abortion 1 % Fetus has possible health problem 3 % Woman has health problem 3 % Woman's parents want her to have abortion < 1 % Woman was victim of ra pe or inc est 1 %

Some Protestant leaders are striving to broaden the church's ministry to include the growing plurality of family forms — to include as coequals with the intact nuclear family all single - parent families, the divorced and remarried, blended families, childless couples, unmarried couples living together, and gay and lesbian couples with or without children.

And the single fastest growing demographic group is men over 65 with neither spouse or children close to him.

Those growing up in a single parent household are over twice as likely to be severely materially deprived as those who lived with both parents; the odds of severe material deprivation are also twice as high for those who grew up in households with four or more children, compared to being an only child.

In their book Growing Up with a Single Parent: What Hurts, What Helps, sociologists Sara McLanahan and Gary Sandefur found that 31 % of adolescents with divorced parents dropped out of high school, compared to 13 % of children from intact families.

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Being a single mom with no money I would never even think to buy something this expensive as each birthday the child grows to want more and more until you are drained to nothing.

Valco Baby strollers have become well known for their accommodation of growing families, with single and double strollers to choose from, and even options that can fit three or four children.

The results added to a growing body of evidence showing that all modern Native Americans share ancestry with the Anzick child, and that the majority of all indigenous people in the Americas can trace their lineages back to a single migration that took place about 15,000 years ago.

Enck blames the decline on more and more young people growing up in urban cultures removed from hunting, an increasing proportion of ethnic minorities (who are less likely to hunt) in the population and — surprise, surprise — the rise in single - parent families «with fewer opportunities for children to learn about hunting from their fathers».

And, while this preference for togetherness is strongest for those with little children (97 % of those with kids under 5 want to have family - bonding dates), even those with adult children want in: 87 % of singles with grown - up kids would like to do activities as one big family.

My name is Dave single with two grown children's work in the financial industry / mortgage servicing.

hi my name is Mike I am a single father in the state of Ohio with full custody of my child I have my own truck my own place and my career I work as an architectural designer 40 hours a week looking for someone to settle down and have a long serious committed relationship with to grow old with I...

I am an RN, former hippie, now with my child grown and out of the house, I am single and looking for a long term commitment / true love.

I am a single female with two grown children free and clear no baby sitter needed I have taken very good care of myself and looks around thirty years old.

Being a single parent can be challenging sometimes, especially when you have to handle the pressure with work, home, financials, and growing children, etc..

A child of the eighties, I grew up with two main fictional images of single women in their thirties — Bridget Jones, the miserable singleton, desperately seeking love and dissecting every aspect of her life, whilst constantly asking herself why she was still single.

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Most African American children, especially those in low - income or single - parent families, enter 1st grade with already large cognitive disadvantages, which then grow in the higher grades.

Children growing up with a single mother are exposed to more family instability and complexity, have more behavior problems, and are less likely to finish high school or attend college.

Perhaps the greatest single outcome is the growing evidence that the whole systems approach connects very deeply with the intuitive systems thinking capabilities of all children.

And the academic wall of silence seemed to be cracking just a little, perhaps especially after William Julius Wilson's The Truly Disadvantaged (1987) was released and sociologists Sara McLanahan and Gary Sandefur's book Growing Up with a Single Parent (1994) powerfully documented the detrimental effects of family breakdown on children.

Small cars, or superminis as they're also known, used to be bought by single people or couples with no children — but the likes of the Ford Fiesta, Seat Ibiza and VW Polo have grown to the point where they can be considered all - round family transport, albeit with the odd compromise.

Among the works here were Yan Xing's video monologue Daddy Project (2011), a work about growing up a single child in a single - parent family, and a painting by Song Kun, Woman in Pinetree (2010), which combines an anime character with traditional scroll - painting techniques.

You need to think of where they're living — it's easy for a single grown person to downsize to more affordable living accommodations, but it's harder to do that with a child.

As a general rule, the family with several young children would require a higher insurance policy for both parents than a family with teens, a single individual or a retired couple who have grown children.

A fairer distribution of adoption support needs to be put in place for single adopters to enable us time with our children so they can grow up to be the best they can be.»

The FFCWS studies add to a large body of earlier work that suggested that children who live with single or cohabiting parents fare worse as adolescents and young adults in terms of their educational outcomes, risk of teen birth, and attachment to school and the labor market than do children who grow up in married - couple families.

The discovery that concordance (similarity between siblings) for divorce among adults is higher among identical than fraternal twins suggests that genes may predispose some people to engage in behaviors that increase the risk of divorce.58 If parents» personality traits and other genetically transmitted predispositions are causes of single parenthood as well as childhood problems, then the apparent effects on children of growing up with a single parent are spurious.

Therefore, although growing up with single or cohabiting parents rather than with married parents is linked with less desirable outcomes for children and youth, comparisons of the size of such effects, across outcomes, ages, and cohorts, is not possible.

For example, some have found significant differences between children with divorced and continuously married parents even after controlling for personality traits such as depression and antisocial behavior in parents.59 Others have found higher rates of problems among children with single parents, using statistical methods that adjust for unmeasured variables that, in principle, should include parents» personality traits as well as many genetic influences.60 And a few studies have found that the link between parental divorce and children's problems is similar for adopted and biological children — a finding that can not be explained by genetic transmission.61 Another study, based on a large sample of twins, found that growing up in a single - parent family predicted depression in adulthood even with genetic resemblance controlled statistically.62 Although some degree of selection still may be operating, the weight of the evidence strongly suggests that growing up without two biological parents in the home increases children's risk of a variety of cognitive, emotional, and social problems.

Some research suggests that the academic deficits associated with living with a single mother are less pronounced for black than for white children.37 One study found that growing up in a single - parent family predicted lower socioeconomic attainment among white women, white men, and black women, but not among black men.38 McLanahan and Sandefur found that white offspring from single - parent families were more likely to drop out of high school than were African American offspring from single - parent families.39 African American children may thus adjust better than white children to life in single - parent families, although the explanation for this difference is not clear.

Nevertheless, like children with divorced parents, children who grow up with a single parent because they were born out of wedlock are more likely than children living with continuously married parents to experience a variety of cognitive, emotional, and behavioral problems.

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Researchers have several theories to explain why children growing up with single parents have an elevated risk of experiencing cognitive, social, and emotional problems.

«Many of the studies that show an advantage for children who grow up in married households versus those who grow up with single parents don't distinguish between family structure and family stability,» said Claire Kamp Dush, author of the study and assistant professor of human development and family science at Ohio State University.

First, children who grow up in an intact, two - parent family with both biological parents present do better on a wide range of outcomes than children who grow up in a single - parent family.

There are studies from scientists and researchers on both sides of this issue arguing whether it's better for children to grow up with married parents or single parents.

Moreover, research shows that even after one controls for a range of family background differences, children who grow up living in an intact household with both biological parents present seem to do better, on average, on a wide range of social indicators than do children who grow up in a single - parent household (McLanahan and Sandefur, 1994).

Nearly 80 percent of long term child poverty occurs in broken or never - married families.Each year government spends over $ 200 billion on means - tested aid to families with children; three quarters of this aid flows to single parent families.Children raised without a father in the home are more likely to experience: emotional and behavioral problems, school failure; drug and alcohol abuse, crime, and incarceration.The beneficial effects of marriage on individuals and society are beyond reasonable dispute, and there is a broad and growing consensus that government policy should promote rather than discourage healthy marriage.

There is a small but growing body of literature demonstrating the effectiveness of IYP programmes in New Zealand, for example with Maori participants [9, 20 — 22], single parents with children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder [23], and within the Ministry of Education [22, 24, 25].

In their book Growing Up with a Single Parent: What Hurts, What Helps, sociologists Sara McLanahan and Gary Sandefur found that 31 % of adolescents with divorced parents dropped out of high school, compared to 13 % of children from intact families.

[T] he number of children living with a single parent who has never married grew from 243,000 in 1960 to 3.7 million in 1983, and then to 6.3 million in 1993.

Chapter Three: The children grow up, continuing to share a single bathroom with their parents.