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    Single Mothers

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    Running head: Demographic Paper Single Unemployed Mothers (Demographic Paper) Brittney Williams September 17‚ 2012 HCS/490 Single Unemployed Mothers (Demographic Paper) A mother is a tough job at hand‚ but thinks for a second about a mother who is unemployed as well as a mother with an absent parent; the issue is many within one. The state of Michigan is experiencing an all-time high increase of unemployed people‚ suffering in poverty. The question at hand is how the demographic issue is

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    Single Mothers

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    Single Mothers Many women take for granted the freedoms that they have today. Some have forgotten what their own mothers and grandmothers went through. Women have started to receive many of the same rights that men do in the work place and at home. At home many women find it more socially acceptable to be single with a child. No longer does society look down on this. This relatively new sense of feminism has helped cause the growing trend of single mothers. With divorce on the rise‚ the dilemma

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    Children). Single mothers and their children face a variety of finanical and emotional complications on a day-to-day basis. Though single motherhood can be just as satisfying as sharing these experiences with a partner‚ there are unique difficulties to its situation. Single Motherhood is when a mother is raising a child without the support of spouse. Around half of today’s mothers will spend some time as a sole custodial parent (Legal Momentum). Statistics say around forty-five percent of single mothers

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    Understanding Single Mothers

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    Albert Kim Professor Hester Eisenstein Soc. 245: Women and work Understanding the Burdens of Single Mothers When the topic of welfare programs and government assistance comes up‚ the common conservative thinking of pulling oneself by the bootstrap has been a common theme for those opposed to the program and even some in the general public. There has been bias coverage in the media regarding those on welfare

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    Single Mothers In Poverty

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    The Plight of Single Mothers in Poverty Drew E. Langford University of Maryland University College Asia Child-rearing can present unique and diverse challenges to all parents. These challenges combined with the multiple complications due to poverty begin to paint a picture of the social problem for so many single mothers in many nations. A study of 18 affluent western democracies conducted by David Brady and Rebekah Burroway (2012) showed that single mothers across the board have a disproportionately

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    Rise Of Single Mothers

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    In the life of a single parented child‚ that parent is their everything‚ their lifeline. Almost everything about life is learned from that one parent. The child will not get to learn from the other half because of the missing gender role. With the parent being either male or female‚ the child will not get to learn about the world from the missing other. Whether it’s divorce‚ separation‚ death‚ or just abandonment‚ the child will not get to experience that aspect of life. These children are special

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    The Educated Single Mother

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    The Educated Single Mother “A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.” (Mermillod) This quote emphasizes one of the many meanings of the word “mother”. This quote can especially relate to single mothers. When faced with the difficulty of raising a child by yourself‚ you sometimes have to play the role of mom and dad. Mothers may never be able to fill the void of the missing father‚ but given the chances‚ they will try. To say the least‚ being a

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    to single mothers who depend on the welfare system. Pushing the mentality that individuals should work more‚ but still implementing fear that if they work pass a certain amount of time welfare would have been relinquished. Welfare would introduce a new act called Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). TANF would be the work regulator that kept single mothers on following the working regiment on not doing to much money (Lee 2009). Jason DeParle’s article provides the case of a single mother

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    Mothers are probably the best multitaskers there are. Since giving birth mothers have always been there to nurture‚ teach‚ discipline‚ and even our personal cheerleaders. As if this all is not enough‚ imagine being a mother with no other support. Single mothers have to be both parental figures for their children. However‚ single moms are breaking the stereotype of being on welfare‚ taking advantage of child support money‚ screwing up their kids‚ being deadbeat‚ weak‚ and unable to support their kids

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    Single Mothers and Single Fathers in Society Today Crystal D.Cole Com/170 February 9‚ 2012 University of Phoenix Single Mothers and Single Fathers in Society Today Being a single parent is tough in twenty first century. A single parent has to be the provider‚ the comforter‚ the teacher‚ and the disciplinarian all in one. In most single parent relationships‚ One feels that our priorities lie with our children first. Society seems to put some pressures on Single Mothers and Single Fathers

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