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    5 Issue 1 Fall 2011 Article 4 2-24-2012 Academic Achievement of Children in Single Parent Homes: A Critical Review Mark S. Barajas Western Michigan University‚ mark.s.barajas@wmich.edu Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarworks.wmich.edu/hilltopreview Part of the Education Commons Recommended Citation Barajas‚ Mark S. (2011) "Academic Achievement of Children in Single Parent Homes: A Critical Review‚" The Hilltop Review: Vol. 5: Iss. 1‚ Article 4. Available at: http://scholarworks

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    Single parent homes: How are they affecting our youth? The cause of behavioral and/or emotional problems among our youth could come from being raised in a single parent home. Many children resort to negative acts of behavior because of limited parental supervision within the single parent household. Children are two to three times more likely to have emotional and behavioral problems in single parent homes (Maginnis‚ 1997). Research and etiology on the problem behaviors in childhood and adolescence

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    Living in a single parent home was a struggle‚no we’re not crack babies or abused but grew up in the struggle and faced obstacles every day. As twin brothers growing up in the hood we learned how to make the most of not having a lot‚ momma taught us to be thankful for what we had and to become leaders not followers. Mom would get us up every morning for school with the smell of breakfast in the air‚ most mornings we didn’t always get what we wanted but momma always provided us with what we needed

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    Patrick Ingram English 120-17 Obese but it’s not my fault Here is your brand new baby boy! You were born twenty inches long‚ about seven pounds; the doctors tell your parents everything is great with you. Life is good but that only lasts for so long; your parents are young always arguing eventually your father feels like he cannot take it anymore and becomes fed up‚ gets his stuff and disappears. You are young and naïve‚ you begin to think that you were the reason that your father leaves; that

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    | Single-Parent Homes | The Effect of Single-Parent Homes on Academic Achievement | | | Abstract Children from single parent homes are not as negatively impacted academically as some in the popular media suggest. The number of children living in single-parent homes has risen dramatically over the last 10 years. Despite prior research stating that single-parenting itself has a negative impact on academic achievement‚ new findings show that it is other social and environmental factors that

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    of single parent homes. As compared to over forty to fifty years ago‚ single-parent families are common in today’s world. A single parent is a parent with one or more children‚ who is not living with any of the children’s other parents. The percentage of children who live with two parents has been declining among all racial and ethnic groups throughout the years. It has been found that children in single-parent homes generally fare worse than those in homes with two parents. In today’s single parent

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    children will spend all or part of their lives in a single parent home.”(Dowd)The family structure has changed significantly in the last fifty years with higher percentages of marriages ending in divorce‚ and higher rates of childbearing out of wedlock. In this study the writer will show that the children of these families are affected dramatically both negatively and positively. Problem Statement Children being raised in single parent homes have a higher chance of poverty‚ delinquency and high

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    Economic struggles are often associated with single parent homes. Single parent homes are deprived income in comparison to two parent homes. Raising children with one income is challenging and proven to have negative effects on the child‚ parent and society. Single parents have insufficient resources. The lack of resources can affect a child’s education‚ particularly if the parent’s priority becomes “making ends meet”. They neglect spending adequate time with the child and their school-related

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    A single parent is a parent with one or more children‚ who is/are not living with the child’s/children’s other parents. The definition of single parenthood may vary according to local laws of nations or provinces. Single parenthood may occur as a result of loss (death of spouse‚ separation‚ divorce‚ abandonment by one parent)‚ or by choice (single parent adoption‚ donor insemination‚ egg donor/surrogate motherhood‚ choosing to carry to term an unexpected pregnancy and raise the child on one’s

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    Services Guardian-child interactions of single and dual guardian households and the opportunities presented to the children of those households. SUBMITTED TO: Connie Fickenscher By Ke’Andre A. Magee Summer 2010 Table of Contents I. Introduction II. Single Guardian versus Dual Guardian III. Review of the research IV. Ways of improving opportunities on both on both sides V. Conclusion VI. References Guardian-child interactions of single and dual guardian households and the opportunities

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