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    Horn’s belief. Then there are people like Edin and Kefalas who bring out human element to single parents. When you bring more of a human element to a reader you tend to have more people towards your side. They may not have had all statistics for this argument but‚ the ethos and pathos were well written. The America we live in today has single parents 1 in 3. Single parents for the most part do not want to be single parents they would like to have another parent in the house in order to help their kids

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    Poverty Reduction and Welfare Provision for Single Parents in Aotearoa/ New Zealand and the United States - A Comparative Analysis Abstract In 1999‚ UNICEF reported that countries which have the most generous welfare provision‚ have the lowest rates of child poverty and that children who live in sole parent families are more likely to live in poverty (Bradbury & Jantti‚ 1999). This paper will look at child poverty in New Zealand and the United States and at welfare provision for single

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    I just wrote a 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

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    Married or Single?

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    Why do people get married? Well it is a known tradition in humanity that a man and woman will come and live together. Marriages are a lifetime commitment with love and caring among people. Although the most important element is love‚ almost half of all marriages today end in divorce and the rate of marriage decreases. Why? There are several reasons to support it. Marriage means giving up freedom. People who get married are defined by the responsibilities of a husband or wife. They cannot do

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    “The mother only family‚ as some may view it‚ is seen as an indicator of social disorganization signaling ‘the demise’ of the family.” In any society‚ the family is one of the most important functional institutions. According to Dr. Godfrey St. Bernard‚ the family is a social institution that binds two or more individual into a primary group. In the society of Trinidad the functioning of the family ids vital. This society at large represents one that is slowly deteoriating and the question

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    A danger of a single story

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    westerners. Elif Shafak is a Turkish novelist born in Strasbourg‚ France who is the most widely read female writer in Turkey. Her books have been translated into more than twenty-five languages. Ch. N. Adichie in her talk warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country‚ we risk a critical misunderstanding. Things are not usually just black and white and we have to make every effort to open our minds and explore what is real. Elif Shafak talks about the danger into which writers

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    Poverty In America

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    approximately 15% (46.5 million) people live below or at poverty level. It’s projected to rise to its peak since the last 50 years. Citizens are becoming more dependent on government aide today‚ with one out of every seven adults and one out of every four children on food stamps. The poverty rate for children living in the United States is 22 percent‚ and is only expected to rise from there. Although one may have no choice when being born into poverty‚ getting out of it is an option. Some famous stories

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    effect of poverty

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    The effects of poverty The effects of poverty are serious. Children who grow up in poverty suffer more persistent‚ frequent‚ and severe health problems than do children who grow up under better financial circumstances. Many infants born into poverty have a low birth weight‚ which is associated with many preventable mental and physical disabilities. Not only are these poor infants more likely to be irritable or sickly‚ they are also more likely to die before their first birthday. Children

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    Abstract The issue of poverty in the United States seems to lie on the grounds of race education and family structure. As expected I found that educational levels paralleled poverty levels. Unexpected ‚ research was found to prove that race did in fact play a substantial role in poverty. Family structure along with other influential factors either locked an individual into poverty or provided a means for escape from the continuing cycle. Other factors contributing to poverty was the location of

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    gender and poverty

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    England‚ especially relating to poverty. Their experiences help us understand to what extent life was like living in poverty. Other factors that also contribute to the experiences of poverty such as‚ geographical locations‚ age and population‚ are all underlying factor of gender and poverty. By this I mean‚ gender was a big issue in the early modern era‚ regardless of age which may have some affect too‚ gender was still deemed to be more significant to experiences of poverty; it affected their employment

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