Sentences with phrase «struggling as single parents»

Raising a family, perhaps carrying a mortgage and often struggling as single parents, their investment in their education just didn't pay off.

Struggling as a single parent?

Working for others was still a struggle as a single parent.

Dustin has helped me with my struggles as a single parent and his counsel has resulted in improvement in many other areas of daily life struggles.

Not exact matches

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.

There are plenty of religious people that have struggles and are sad, just as there are single parents that are happy and successful.

As a single parent, you might struggle while earning your degree.

Having learned the hard way about the shortfalls of single parent families he is careful not to criticise single mothers who struggle desperately, as his own did, to raise children in tough circumstances.

Single parents, however, may struggle more to keep things together, and this may be impacting children in ways that later manifest as adult onset diseases.»

To dramatise this struggle, Loach typically features a single protagonist with a simple goal: Cathy (Carol White) of Cathy Come Home fights to keep her family intact once they become homeless; in Kes, Billy (David Bradley) adopts and trains a hawk to avoid the influence of his failing family and school; Janice (Sandy Ratcliff) of Family Life (1971) tries to preserve a personal identity amid domineering parents and psychiatrists; Stevie (Robert Carlyle) leaves behind a petty criminal past and adopts an assumed name to get hired as a labourer in Riff - Raff; Bob desperately scrambles for the funds to buy his daughter's communion dress in Raining Stones; Liam (Martin Compston) of Sweet Sixteen sells drugs to earn enough money to rent his mother an apartment upon her release from jail.

His gutted parents (Emmanuelle Seigner and Tahar Rahim) struggle to understand why he has to go as a single mother (Anne Dorval) looks forward to new life with the boy's heart.

Even as single parents struggle to make the rent, these kids dream big in a movie that vibrates with compassion and energy.

Many of our students (known here as «scholars») come from complicated family systems with myriad obstacles: single parenting, immigration struggles, foster placements, homelessness, and unemployment.

During my ten years as a single parent, I struggled with divorce, single and co-parenting, community expectations and pressure, work, dating (don't get me started!)

Topics include identifying individual parenting styles, how offering choices enhances self - esteem, suggestions for non-violent discipline, communicating with children in a positive way that strengthens relationships while solving problems, avoiding backing children into corners that result in power struggles, using family meetings to implement parenting strategies as well as teach values, and the often - over-looked importance of playing with children... The information is current and relevant to today's families and will be a terrific help for parents from single, dual, blended, or multi-generational families.

Another study of the entire population of Swedish children found that Swedish children from single - parent families were about twice as likely to have psychological problems, attempt suicide, or struggle with substance abuse, compared to their peers from two - parent families, even after controlling for socioeconomic differences and parents» history of psychological problems (see figure below).

By contrast, the children of women who are on their own as parents, and LEFT alone — those who have no divorce stress or custody hassles undermining authority, and no financial problems or social pariah status or social worker meddling (compare widowed mothers versus welfare mothers versus struggling working single mother with young children)-- do just fine.

In making his case to lead HUD, Carson pointed to his personal experience rising from a struggling, single - parent household and professional experience as the head of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins University and as a board member of Kellogg Co. and Costco Wholesale Corp..