Sentences with phrase «unmarried women with children»

My own statements about the way in which the decline of marriage contributes to the difficulties facing the working class were singled out as suggesting that unmarried women with children were somehow responsible — blaming the victim.

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Instead, advocates for adoption by unmarried women believe that an individual's character, strength, and potential parenting capacity are better considered in providing a child with an adoptive home.

In fact, if one considered just three factors (maternal education, maternal prenatal alcohol or tobacco, and marital status) one could predict to a high degree postneonatal mortality: children born to unmarried women with lower education and evidence of prenatal drug use had a postneonatal mortality of about 30 per 1000 live births (similar to Ivory Coast); children born to women with none of these risk factors had a postneonatal mortality of about 2 per 1000 live births (similar to Norway); that is, children in this latter category almost never die despite evidence from PRAMS surveys that they are as likely to co-sleep with their parents.

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.»

The study found that women who gave birth while unmarried reported poorer health later in life even if they eventually married or entered a stable relationship with someone other than the father of their child.

The Russian cultural paradigm is that a woman should be married, with children, and an unmarried woman is declined a respectable social status.

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.

Code 1.6, The child of an unmarried woman may be registered with any surname requested by the mother.

The opposite is true for women with children, married or unmarried.

The child of an unmarried woman may be registered with any surname requested by the mother.

Married and unmarried men and women, with or without children are eligible.

Married women generally enjoy the following (as compared with unmarried peers): * More satisfying relationships with their spouse / partner and children * Greater emotional happiness with less depression * More financial resources / less likely to end up in poverty * Decreased risk of domestic violence, sexual assault, or other violent crimes * Decreased risk of drug and alcohol abuse * Better physical health * Longer life

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

Encounters With the Criminal Justice System.Table 3 shows that adolescents born to nurse - visited women (treatment group 4) reported more frequent stops by police (P <.001) but fewer arrests and convictions and violations of probation (P =.005 and.001, respectively); the arrest and convictions and probation violation effects were concentrated among children born to women who were unmarried and from low - SES families (P =.03 and <.001, respectively).

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.

An unmarried woman who has a child with a partner must establish parentage if she wishes to seek child support.