Sentences with phrase «unmarried mothers and their children»

The campaign for reinstatement onto band lists may have created some awareness of the discrimination against unmarried mothers and their children but I do not think that there has yet been an effort to understand the significance of the disabilities imposed on bastards, in Britain and in Canada, as regards Canadian immigration policy.

For this reason, efforts to create clear and meaningful policies around relationship violence and paternity establishment are a critical first step toward ensuring the safety of unmarried mothers and their children.

Following the birth, there remains a role for family courts to play in setting legal parameters that protect the safety of unmarried mothers and their children through supervised visitation arrangements and legal enforcement services.

How can we improve the lives of the growing numbers of unmarried mothers and their children?

Not exact matches

Wouldn't it be great if communities existed where ANY mother, married or unmarried, would feel welcomed and loved and known that her needs and the needs of her child would be attended to?

According to the most recent study by the National Center for Health Statistics, 70 % of black children nationwide are born to unmarried mothers, compared with 21 % for whites and 41 % for Hispanics.

Either denial of registration is effective, so not using it on mothers and married fathers is against the interests of the child; or it is not effective, so applying it to unmarried fathers adds nothing to the safety of the child.

There are 12 times as many cohabiting couples today as there were in the 1970s and 40 percent of first babies born to single mothers are born to cohabiting couples who rarely make it past five years; in fact some two - thirds of the unmarried moms split from the child's biological father and start a new relationship before the kid is 5 years old — how do we «save» those families?)

We published a discussion paper, Birth Registration and Parental Responsibility, in March 2007 when the Government was first considering the issue, and identified in it some of the costs and benefits to fathers, mothers, children and society of the Government's taking a more pro-active stance towards joint birth registration for unmarried fathers.

The survey lists seven trends, including «more unmarried couples raising children,» «more mothers of young children working outside the home,» and «more single women having children without a male partner to help raise them.»

In some states, like Oklahoma, it is presumed that the mother has sole custody in cases where the parents were unmarried at the time of the child's birth and no father is on the birth certificate.

In fact, according to a study in Breastfeeding Medicine, mothers with lower rates of breastfeeding «tend to be young, low - income, African American, unmarried, less educated, participants in the Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), overweight or obese before pregnancy, and more likely to report their pregnancy was unintended.»

To do so, an unmarried father would likely need to show that the mother is unfit to raise the child and / or that he has been the child's primary caregiver.

Mothers who are nonwhite, unmarried, or lack a college education are more likely to have children with health and developmental problems.

Sandy (Aniston) is a divorced mother of two with an ex who has remarried a much younger woman, and Miranda (Roberts) is a workaholic and accomplished celebrity who gave up her child at birth, Kristen (Robertson), who is an unmarried mother herself.

Since she has blonde hair and blue eyes, she is persuaded to have her baby at a home for unmarried mothers where her child will be given to a good German family.

What happens to children of unmarried mothers» by Sara McLanahan and Christopher Jencks, and «Moynihan and the Single Parent Family: The 1965 report and its backlash» by James T. Patterson will appear in the Spring 2015 issue of Education Next and are available now on http://educationnext.org.

What happens to children of unmarried mothers,» eminent scholars Sara McLanahan of Princeton University and Christopher Jencks of Harvard University look at changes in family structure for both blacks and whites over the past 50 years, and note its effect on the educational attainment and other life outcomes of the children raised in single parent families.

The problem first presented itself to Moynihan and his team in the form of a surprising divergence in the black community between unemployment rates and welfare application rates (which coincided with rates of single motherhood, since essentially only unmarried mothers could apply for the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program).

«Week after week, we have maladjusted children, unmarried mothers and so on.

In that case, your mother's birth name would presumably be less a part of public record, and a more secure option (that children of unmarried, non-adoptees don't have).

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«Disabled children of unmarried relationships, and their residential parents, most often mothers, face economic hardships and insecurity not visited upon those whose parents married.

While you have accepted the «fact that mothers of children born in Canada get to decide if those children will live or die up until the time that child is born» then you also accept that the law nullifies any rights a unmarried father (common law) may have to legally adopt and / or assume primary custody of his unborn child not wanted by the mother.

There are 12 times as many cohabiting couples today as there were in the 1970s and 40 percent of first babies born to single mothers are born to cohabiting couples who rarely make it past five years; in fact some two - thirds of the unmarried moms split from the child's biological father and start a new relationship before the kid is 5 years old — how do we «save» those families?)

[3] The authorizing legislation for the property tax includes the following uses [RSMo 210.861.4]: (1) Up to thirty days of temporary shelter for abused, neglected, runaway, homeless or emotionally disturbed youth; respite care services; and services to unwed mothers; (2) Outpatient chemical dependency and psychiatric treatment programs; counseling and related services as a part of transitional living programs; home - based and community - based family intervention programs; unmarried parent services; crisis intervention services, inclusive of telephone hotlines; and prevention programs which promote healthy lifestyles among children and youth and strengthen families; (3) Individual, group, or family professional counseling and therapy services; psychological evaluations; and mental health screenings.

Courts presume that the unmarried mother has the primary or natural right to custody of children born when she is not married, and she has the legal right to custody, care, and control of the child.

An unmarried mother is automatically the sole guardian of a child born outside of marriage and has sole custody.

The magnitude of the association of family instability and multipartner fertility coefficients are similar for children born to mothers who were married or mothers who were unmarried, with the exception of the relationship between multipartner fertility and child - reported delinquency.

In Elmira, children of low - income, unmarried mothers in the treatment group had fewer emergency room visits than controls.68 Similarly, in Memphis, fewer accidents and injuries required treatment.

The observed effect of home - visitation programs seems to be greatest in high - risk populations, such as mothers who are teenagers, unmarried, poor, or have been abused themselves, and in children who are preterm or low birth weight.

A fifteen - year follow - up of the Prenatal / Early Infancy Project in Elmira, New York, showed that the nurse home visits significantly reduced child abuse and neglect in participating families, as well as arrest rates for the children and mothers.35 The women who received the program also spent much less time on welfare; those who were poor and unmarried had significantly fewer subsequent births.

Shirley Liu and Frank Heiland find that among couples unmarried at the time of the child's birth, marriage improved cognitive scores for children whose parents later married.41 Terry - Ann Craigie distinguishes among stable cohabiting unions, stable single - mother homes, and stable married - couple families, as well as unstable cohabiting families and unstable married - couple families.

The Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study The Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study is a new data set that follows a cohort of approximately 5,000 children born between 1998 and 2000 in medium to large U.S. cities.37 Approximately 3,700 of the children were born to unmarried mothers and 1,200 to married mothers.38 The study initiated interviews with parents at a time when both were in the hospital for the birth of their child and therefore available for interviews.39 As a consequence, FFCWS is able to comprehensively detail the characteristics of both parents and the nature of their relationship at the time of the child's bChild Wellbeing Study The Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study is a new data set that follows a cohort of approximately 5,000 children born between 1998 and 2000 in medium to large U.S. cities.37 Approximately 3,700 of the children were born to unmarried mothers and 1,200 to married mothers.38 The study initiated interviews with parents at a time when both were in the hospital for the birth of their child and therefore available for interviews.39 As a consequence, FFCWS is able to comprehensively detail the characteristics of both parents and the nature of their relationship at the time of the child's bChild Wellbeing Study is a new data set that follows a cohort of approximately 5,000 children born between 1998 and 2000 in medium to large U.S. cities.37 Approximately 3,700 of the children were born to unmarried mothers and 1,200 to married mothers.38 The study initiated interviews with parents at a time when both were in the hospital for the birth of their child and therefore available for interviews.39 As a consequence, FFCWS is able to comprehensively detail the characteristics of both parents and the nature of their relationship at the time of the child's bchild and therefore available for interviews.39 As a consequence, FFCWS is able to comprehensively detail the characteristics of both parents and the nature of their relationship at the time of the child's bchild's birth.

Rapid changes in the characteristics of parents over time also could result in different selection biases in terms of which parents (both mothers and fathers) have children when married or when unmarried (for example, as the pool of parents having mediators), instability appears to be most important (with the worst outcomes found for children of unstable single or unstable cohabiting mothers).

A subgroup analysis of high risk women who were unmarried and from low SES households (40 %) showed that home visits reduced the number of subsequent births (mean difference [MD] 0.5, p = 0.02), months that women received welfare (MD 29.9, p = 0.005), reports of behavioural impairment due to substance abuse (incidence 0.41 v 0.73, p = 0.005), records of arrests (incidence 0.16 v 0.90, p < 0.001), convictions (incidence 0.13 v 0.69, p < 0.001), and verified reports of child abuse and neglect involving the mother as perpetrator (incidence 0.11 v 0.53, p < 0.01).

-- This program of prenatal and early childhood home visitation by nurses can reduce the number of subsequent pregnancies, the use of welfare, child abuse and neglect, and criminal behavior on the part of low - income, unmarried mothers for up to 15 years after the birth of the first child.

Most unmarried mothers want the father of their child to be an involved and active parent.

The effect of home visiting programs on mothers» life - course (subsequent pregnancies, education, employment, and use of welfare) is disappointing overall.10 In the trial of the nurse home visitor program described above, there were enduring effects of the program 15 years after birth of the first child on maternal life - course outcomes (e.g., interpregnancy intervals, use of welfare, behavioural problems due to women's use of drugs and alcohol, and arrests among women who were low - income and unmarried at registration).21 The effects of this program on maternal life - course have been replicated in separate trials with urban African - Americans20, 23,24 and with Hispanics.18

Among the 20 percent of unmarried fathers who are emotionally or physically abusive toward the mother of their child, half attend the hospital for the birth and half do not [Figure 1].

The program of prenatal and infancy home visiting by nurses, tested with a primarily white sample, produced a 48 percent treatment - control difference in the overall rates of substantiated rates of child abuse and neglect (irrespective of risk) and an 80 percent difference for families in which the mothers were low - income and unmarried at registration.21 Corresponding rates of child maltreatment were too low to serve as a viable outcome in a subsequent trial of the program in a large sample of urban African - Americans, 20 but program effects on children's health - care encounters for serious injuries and ingestions at child age 2 and reductions in childhood mortality from preventable causes at child age 9 were consistent with the prevention of abuse and neglect.20, 22

Unmarried parents are encouraged to establish paternity for their children by signing a form in the hospital at the time of birth; however, for families experiencing relationship violence, the preferred method of paternity establishment is through the court system, where legal parameters can be placed on a father's access to mother and child.

The Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, which followed a cohort of nearly 5,000 children born in large U.S. cities between 1998 and 2000 (roughly three - quarters of whom were born to unmarried parents), sheds light on the relationships of low - income, unmarried parents.11 The vast majority of unmarried fathers in the study indicated they were romantically involved with their child's mother at the time of the child's bChild Wellbeing Study, which followed a cohort of nearly 5,000 children born in large U.S. cities between 1998 and 2000 (roughly three - quarters of whom were born to unmarried parents), sheds light on the relationships of low - income, unmarried parents.11 The vast majority of unmarried fathers in the study indicated they were romantically involved with their child's mother at the time of the child's bchild's mother at the time of the child's bchild's birth.

The concentration of beneficial effects among children born to unmarried women of low SES is consistent with the results of other preventive interventions that have shown greater effects for children of families at greater social risk.20 This suggests that these kinds of services ought to be focused on families in greater need by virtue of the mothers» being unmarried and poor.

Individual identifiers were not returned in the abstraction of these data, although the children's treatment group, sex, and risk status (ie, whether they were born to an unmarried mother from low SES) were returned.

Nurse - visited children whose mothers were unmarried and from low - SES families were reported by their parents to have been arrested less frequently than were their counterparts in the comparison group (P =.05).

The absence of program effect with the official arrest data may be explained by a significant, 9-fold higher rate of official arrest records prior to randomization (0.44 vs 0.05) found for treatment group 4 mothers who were unmarried and of low SES and whose children remained in Chemung County compared with their treatment group 1 and 2 counterparts.

Firstly, an unmarried mother should understand the specific child custody and visitation laws of her state.

Child Abuse: While children living with their unmarried biological mother and her live - in boyfriend face a higher risk of suffering child abuse than kids in any other type of family, children who live with their own cohabiting parents are more likely to be abused than children of married parChild Abuse: While children living with their unmarried biological mother and her live - in boyfriend face a higher risk of suffering child abuse than kids in any other type of family, children who live with their own cohabiting parents are more likely to be abused than children of married parchild abuse than kids in any other type of family, children who live with their own cohabiting parents are more likely to be abused than children of married parents.

According to the FFCW study, nearly 40 percent of unmarried mothers will cohabit with a new partner after their relationship with their child's father ends, and 14 percent will have another child with a new partner.