SINGLE PARENTS Being a parent also means being faced with huge responsibilities. Having a family is one of the unevitable stage in life which comes to anybody’s life and bearing a child is a gift. But‚ not all of these stuffs comes with a happy ending. According to the National Statistics Coordination Board‚ there are approximately 14 million (out of 92.34 million as of May 2010) single parents in the Philippines and still counting. These figures are growing not only in the Philippines but also
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Challenges of being a single parent No milk in the refrigerator! No peanut butter sandwich tonight! Can’t go to the movies this weekend! My thirteen year old son has a problem with everything including chores and I can’t get my 15 year old daughter to come out of her bedroom! As a single parent I can say that there are quite a number of challenges of being a single parent. One challenge that most single parents face is that of being able to support the family financially especially if that person
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paper on sigle parents and the web site lost it so now I have to start all over. I am so amazed at the amount of single parents out their today. I myself is a single parent and I have to put my daughter trough school‚ pay the rent and bills. I understand that it is hard and that we don’t get any help but we make it happen the best way we could. I marvel at kids that excel in school and graduate at the top of their classes knowing their situation at home. I congratulate the parents my pushing their
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Single Parent Contest For many years‚ children growing up in a single parent family have been considered ‘different’. Being raised by only one parent seems to be wrong and impossible to do‚ but over the decades it has become more normal as such. Today in the 21st century many children have grown up to become stable and successful whether they had one or two parents to tell them what is right and wrong. The issue lies in the progression of children being raised by single parents versus children being
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Being Single is Better than Getting Married A very good morning to the chairperson‚ honourable judges‚ my lovely oppositions‚ timekeepers and my fellow friends. Today‚ I would like to present the motion about ‘Being Single is better than getting married’. A very simple question‚ what is ‘marriage’ and what is ‘single’? According to the Cambridge dictionary‚ marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman which they live as husband and wife that is legally accepted. Single is a male or a female
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The number of children being born into single parent households has been on the rise over these past years. Amongst all of the races‚ African American children happen to be the most common being born to single parents. It is currently over 70% of African American babies who are born to single parents. These numbers have been on the rise since the 1940’s and the question today is why are the numbers so high now than before? To answer that question‚ there are three main reasons why according to Mclanahan
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Latin for “The whole world is a playhouse”. When the globe 1st opened there were no actresses so all female roles were played by young boys as theatre stages were considered too risqué a place for ladies. During the play Henry VIII there was a canon being used but not the correct way‚ and because it wasn’t used the right way it set fire to the roof and the fire quickly spread‚ reportedly taking less than two hours to burn down completely. After burning down in 1613 The Globe Theatre was rebuilt on the
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Being Single I know for a fact‚ that I’m going to be forever single‚ its literally written in the bible. My experience with the male kind throughout my life has been horrible! There are three specific traits that show that I’m going to be single for eternity: I’m never good enough for anyone that I consider interested in‚ I have a horrible looking nose and I guess I’m just an ugly duckling. It happens to me every single time! I meet the perfect guy‚ we’re having
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Being single doesn’t necessarily mean you’re available. Sometimes you have to put up a sign that says‚ "Do Not Disturb" on your heart. | If you aren’t happy being single you will never be happy in a relationship. Get your own life and love it first‚ then share it. If you’re single‚ focus on being a better you instead of looking for someone better than your ex. A better you will attract a better next. Being single doesn’t necessarily mean one is not wanted. In many cases it means that one
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Single parent’s versus dual parents has always been an interesting discussion point to me. The argument on which family a child would benefit more from has supporters on both sides. In this essay I will be comparing and contrasting between the two different households and hopefully my audience will have a better understanding of some of the challenges and obstacles that each of these parents deal with on a day by day basis. One of the points I will discuss will be the guilt that both types of these
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