Sentences with phrase «were single parent families»

This figure (which covers families with children age 2 — 8 years only) compares well with 1991 census data for England, in which 18.0 % of households containing children aged under 16 years were single parent families.

Of that number, one - third were single parent families.

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.

Not exact matches

«Obviously there are kids of single moms and dads who do phenomenally well, and there are some kids in two - parent families that don't.

But my point is we should be empowering families to make the choices they think are best for their kids, and that should entail ending discrimination in the tax code against single - income, two - parent families.»

And the great worry is that young people, who traditionally provide the bulk of demand for single - family homes, are taking longer to leave their parents» basement or bid goodbye to their roommates and buy a place of their own.

These reductions for the lowest - income groups were so large because President Reagan doubled the personal exemption, increased the standard deduction, and tripled the earned income tax credit (EITC), which provides net cash for single - parent families with children at the lowest income levels.

There's the fact that the tax giveaway stands to exclude single parent families that need the most help.

But it does not recognize the amazing diversity of ways that Canadian families come together to raise their children - the grandparents who spend their retirements pushing strollers, the parents who juggle shifts so that someone is always home for the kids, the single parents and blended families and other complexities of modern life.

Coverage is available for singles, couples, single parents and families.

There is no benefit at all from income splitting for single parents, or for two parent families in which both earners are in the same tax bracket, including the middle and bottom income tax brackets; these families with children under 18 represent over half of all families that are the apparent target of the scheme, according to the Broadbent Institute study, The Big Split.

«This report proves that children are living in poverty because the B.C. Liberal government is clawing back child support from single parent families living on income assistance and disability,» said Mungall.

This follows an easing of the policy in late 2013, when Beijing said that certain parents, such as those that were of single - child families themselves, could have two children.

Funny, wallace, you mention science because the left consistently refuses to accept the decades of social science research that says single - and step - parent families are not in fact suitable alternatives to the the traditional 2 - parent family.

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.

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

Because there are blended families, group families, and single - parent families — all of them constituted by people whose needs the churches aim to serve — one may become increasingly reluctant to hold up an ideal.

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

«Family clusters,» composed of three or four families plus several singles, can provide mutual caring, enrichment, learning and communication among several families and between adolescents and adults who are not their parents.

(There is a similar decrease for single - parent families.)

In fact, this norm of caring for the generations can apply to persons who are single, divorced, in single - parent or blended families and, to paraphrase one of the historic prayers, «to all sorts and conditions of human beings.»

Furthermore, while an intact family composed of two parents of the opposite sex and their biological child or children may provide the best standard family unit in society (and should, therefore, be given support), we would be naive and cruel to dismiss the possibility that differently configured families (e.g., families with single parents or homosexual parents or adopted children) may produce family situations that are as good as, or, in some cases, better than, those of families that fit the standard.

In 1999, we are no longer reduced to «guessing» whether he was inspired or speaking only as a man: • adultery has lost its moral significance and become commonplace; • chastity has become a symbol of unhealthy development; • contraception in expectation of fornication is taught to children in the schools; • respect between the sexes has been replaced by mutual exploitation and / or competition; • marriage has lost its sacramental nature and its enduring promise; • statistically, divorce is common, teenage pregnancy is widespread, single parent and serially parented families increase, sexual disease is epidemic, intercourse is recreational, abortion is ubiquitous.

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.

You can see how our country is unraveling socially, through the positive correlation with single parent families via a high divorce rate.

So today we see single parent families with four or five children not two of which have the same father and the mother has never been married.

Women suffer the most due to civil wars, being subject to rape, becoming single parents, made refugees and having to bring up children without proper schooling, social services and their traditional cultural environment of home, the extended family and village or town.

To be clear, many children raised in single - parent or blended - families turn out okay.

Murray Straus's studies suggest that marital violence occurs in one out of four marriages, not as a single event but as a pattern (Richard J. Gelles and Claire Pedrick Cornell, Intimate Violence in Families [Sage Publications, 1985], p. 69) The Center for the Prevention of Sexual and Domestic Violence estimates that one girl out of three and one boy out of seven are sexually abused by age 18, and that in half the cases their abusers are family members; that 1 million children are physically abused by parents or caretakers every year; and that 1 million elderly people are abused every year by their adult children.

I have witnessed that in single parent families where the single parent is a mom, the male children gravitate towards and emulate prominent male figures in their lives such as an Uncle or male family friend.

We aren't a particularly wealthy family (we have a single income, and that is in pastoral ministry), nor are we particularly exceptional parents, nor are we particularly well - positioned to have as many children as possible.

as for those who believe that all blacks are raised in families with multiple fathers and single mothers... i have had both of my parents in the same house together my entire life.

But even then, the acceptance of children outside of marriage comes with a caveat: in this case, the most resourced assure everyone else that all family forms are valid, children are resilient, and can thrive just as well in single - parent families as in married families» and then turn around and admonish their children that they should never, never have children outside of marriage.

Boethius... you didn't mention a Mother... I'm curious whether (like myself), you've been both a mother and father to yr children... I have a feeling that it's the maternal ties (iin my case, overly compensated) that are most difficult to break, especially seen in single parent (male) families.

But it is impossible similarly to explain away the poorer educational and employment performance of children of single - parent families.

But in a society of divorce, broken families, and single parents, conservative proposals such as repealing the marriage tax are little more than «symbolic hand waving» and will have slight effect in the real world.

This is true even when single - parent families are not poor, although they frequently are.

, two - parent families are better for children than single - parent families.

This is different from the authors» approach to single - parent families; they urge the church to support single - parent families in every way possible, even while continuing to articulate the view that the mother - father family is the ideal.

Children of single - parent families are far more likely even when they are not poor to do badly in school, get in trouble with the law, have poor mental and physical health, and have marital difficulties later in life.

Consider the tremendous response to the Atlantic article (April 1993) in which Barbara Dafoe Whitehead argued that the two - parent family is better on the whole for child - rearing than are single parents and stepfamilies.

More than half of the families are single parent because the men leave (no honor, no courage, no values).

It is no great mystery that statistics associate social problems with single - parent families.

There is a shroud of gloom that spreads on all areas of the life of the world today, the gloom that is spread over the children of broken families, over single parents, over the unemployed, over minority communities.

I would suggest that such voracious demands on people's lives, felt most mercilessly by the hardest pressed, such as employed single parents, are inimical to the family and to many other things of value.

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.

It's tough being a single parent, and Ty can't be faulted for wanting the best for his family.

We have read about how Wenger is in with MBappes family, now unless Wengers single life has got to him and MBappes parents are swingers then it could be towards the transfer.

We've gone from Bahrain winning 10 - 0 to the riots, to single parent families and a lack of discipline to «it was better in my day».