Sentences with phrase «single working parent»

Early care and education is a necessity in today's society, as families increasingly include dual earners or a single working parent.

Even if schools are near one another geographically, if there is not reliable public transportation to take students to and from schools efficiently, going even one mile further to get to school can be a deal breaker, particularly for a single working parent.

She's doing well as a new mom and single working parent.

Single working parents or families in which both parents work may be able to sign up for flexible spending accounts through their employers to help pay for next year's child care expenses — including most summer day camps.

Single Working Parents Group (Niagara Falls, NY).

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There's a lot more to Dweck's work, but I was very happy to see her results cited by Robbins when he had time in the interview to share only one single, most important piece of parenting advice.

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.

Angelou's second autobiography, Gather Together in My Name, recounts the struggles of being a single parent and the slide into poverty, which forced her to work as a Madame, restaurant cook and prostitute.

BTW I work with families where 99 percent are from single parents... it is nOT working!

Emma had witnessed first - hand the unintended consequence of this policy: single parents going off to work and, in the absence of affordable child care, leaving eight - year - olds to watch three - year - old siblings.

On the one extreme there are poor single parents who work too much to have time for their children, and on the other the affluent parents who are too self «absorbed to take an interest in the life they brought into the world.

As Harvard's David Ellwood notes, some two - parent working families are worse off than single persons on welfare.

But, as Vale shows, this success and popularity rested on sustaining the projects as the home to a very narrow spectrum of the Boston poor, those deemed both deserving and respectable: two - parent, mostly white, single - earner, low - income, working - class families of good character in need of a temporary leg up — a stratum «below the bulk of blue - collar employees but above that of the unemployed, the irregularly employed, and the welfare - dependent.»

@DragonSlayer — I am working on it, we do work with single parents.

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

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.

I'm a single parent and I can barely make myself a cup of tea right now, let alone return to work as a midwife Do you have any tips to help move through that initial period of poor health to a point where I could feasibly go shopping / stand up long enough to cook / even do an online shopping order?

«Some are single - parent households; in others, both parents work.

As a single parent to a rambunctious 3 - year - old it often just seems like so much work to cook.

IRI GIRA Foodservice believes that increasingly fluid families — in particular fewer families with children and more single parent or single occupant homes — and more people working away from home has led to greater demand for convenient meal solutions.

Since each parent and each baby are different, there is no single method works well for all parents and their babies.

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

Amy loves working with families from all walks of life — including LGBTQI families, single - parent families, two - parent families, families with more than two parents, adoptive parents, surrogates, and beyond.

Some parents choose to work on creating a single group gift to avoid all the wrapping and packaging waste.

«So many of the single moms and dads I have worked with feel completely alone, and unfortunately, being a single parent is a role that our culture just does not do enough to honor and uphold.

It's going to be available to families with children under 12 where both parents are working (and working single parents) and are not already claiming tax credits to help with childcare costs.

For example, single parents will need to learn the delicate art of balancing their work and family life so they can still end up with a little extra time for themselves.

Working mothers face similar issues as single parents.

At their offices and workspaces, the demand from parents for time off means single women without kids are routinely pressured into working late, scheduling vacations for off - seasons, and otherwise picking up the slack that the work / life balance leaves undone by their colleagues.»

There is no single «right» way to parent, and new moms should be told to do whatever works best for their baby — but also that they shouldn't neglect their own needs or punish themselves.

I am a single parent and it is hard with my work schedule to be consistant «at home.»

Many women also face additional stresses of work and home responsibilities, single parenthood and caring for children and aging parents, abuse, poverty, and relationship strains.

But most working mothers have little choice but to hold down a paying job, especially in single - parent families.

It is acknowledged that in some situations, like a working single parent, a child may need to be put in preschool, but that the optimal environment is a home where the child feels secure and is free to develop at his own pace.

The emphasis on the father's role in another concept has also met with challenges, as we work with and accredit Leaders from other types of families: those with two mothers or two fathers, those with a single parent, and those with other situations and different types of support systems.

Choosing a child visitation schedule that works for you, your children, and your ex is one of the most important decisions you'll make as a single parent.

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It is difficult to balance working and caring for your family, so often a single parent doesn't have time and energy for additional obligations such as going to college.

So what I'm calling my Single Parent Reality Check, AKA Monday, went like this: I worked from home, picked the girls up after school, rushed them home, force - fed them a snack and supervised homework like a drill sergeant.

Their aim is to simply solve the everyday problems parents face in a smart, safe, simple and beautiful way and they have a single promise that baby products should take some of the work out of being new parents, so you can enjoy the experience and everything that parenthood has to offer.

The freedom to have your mother, partner or friend look after your baby while you work, or go on a night out, or while you just try to keep some semblance of your social life intact (single parents under 21 can become socially isolated and depressed easily).

The fact that some adoption agencies and networking websites refuse to work with hopeful single adoptive parents doesn't make things any easier for you.

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.

-- The U.S. Labor Department reports that the number of families where both parents work or are headed by single parents is skyrocketing.

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The truth is, if your relationship is probably not going to work, and single parenting isn't going to be the best choice, adoption is an amazing option.

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.

I only wish I'd had time to feature many more parents (single moms, moms working in offices, stay - at - home moms, dads, etc.); but like I mentioned last week, this time, I wanted to feature moms who are in similar work situations, so we could see how they've each created very different schedules that work for their families.

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Dave has always singled out being an involved parent as his most important life's work while managing the job responsibilities of being managing partner of his CPA firm, RBZ, LLP in West Los Angeles.