From Prison to Home: The Effect of Incarceration and Reentry on Children‚ Families‚ and Communities Prisoners and Families: Parenting Issues During Incarceration Creasie Finney Hairston‚ PhD Jane Addams College of Social Work University of Illinois at Chicago December 2001 [ Project Home Page | List of Conference Papers ] Contents * The Importance of Family Matters * Family Definitions * Financial Difficulties * Parent-child Relationships and Children’s Care
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Topic: Effects of Having an Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW) Parent on the Academic Performance of Tertiary School Students from First Asia Institute of Technology and Humanities (FAITH)‚ First Semester AY 2011-2012 I. Target Readers: Students who have an Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW) parent II. Research Objectives: After reading this research paper‚ FAITH tertiary students should be able to: 1. Cite the advantages of having an OFW parent in terms of the following aspects: a. Financial
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Effects of Poverty‚ Hunger‚ and Homelessness on Children and Youth The nation’s economic crisis has deeply affected the lives of millions of Americans. Skyrocketing foreclosures and job layoffs have pulled the rug out from under many families‚ particularly those living in low-income communities. Deepening poverty is inextricably linked with rising levels of homelessness and food insecurity/hunger for many Americans and children are particularly affected by these conditions. Find out below a summary
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Statistics shows that two of every ten college students today is a single parent‚ whether male or female. And the number of single parents in college is on a steady rise. This shouldn’t really be surprising since single-parent households have been on a sharp and steady increase for several decades. Today‚ there are more single parents enrolled in college than ever before. Single parents face difficult challenges‚ and single parents who are also college students have additional stresses and demands
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Divorce: Effects on Children Divorce has become an unquestionable remedy for the miserably married. Currently‚ the United States has the highest divorce rate in the world. Every year in the US approximately one million children experience divorce which‚ is about one in every three children (Amato 21). The effects of divorce can be tremendously painful for both children and adults. Children of divorce are more likely to suffer from behavioral‚ social‚ academic‚ and psychological problems than children
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be male or female‚ adult or child‚ and almost no family in the United States today goes completely untouched by its affects. In order to understand the effects that alcohol addiction can have on the family as a whole three general areas of knowledge must be covered. Addiction to alcohol in general and its effects on the individual‚ alcohols effect on the familial unit‚ and possible treatment options both for the addict as well as the affected family members. Origins of alcohol most likely predate
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Administration for Children and Families By Jasmine Reyes The Administration for Children and Families (AFC) is a federal funding state‚ and organization to provide family assistance such as welfare‚ child support‚ and child welfare. The service is provided by the state and county. The AFC help families try and build a strong‚ healthy‚ and supportive attitude towards life and the development of children. The AFC makes sure children are protected from abuse and neglect and those children are safety maintained
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“Tug-of-love” Children and Stepfamilies. Everybody knows that family is a way of stable and happy life‚ but occasionally something happens and its happiness and wealth break down and family breaks down too‚ it is going through divorce‚ hence this may cause formation of step-families and ‘tug-of-love’ children as well. Every thirty seconds‚ a child’s parents divorce. According to some experts‚ divorce is the single most traumatic experience in a child’s life. For the 1.1 million children in the United
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psychological effects of divorce on children can become very damaging. Divorce can be a profound catalyst for psychological‚ social‚ and economic change. A lot of parents’ do not fully understand how much their divorce can almost ruin their child’s life‚ especially their adulthood. Divorce deeply affects everyone involved‚ especially children. It is extremely vital that every parent going through a divorce be aware of the consequences their divorce can have have on their children. The greatest
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“The traditional two parent family is best” -Michael Howard 1993 Write a response to the statement. Include arguments and evidence on both sides of the discussion. The idea that in order for a child to be raised properly and thoroughly‚ they must have a traditional two parent family‚ no doubt stems from the idea that a child must have role models while growing up‚ both male and female‚ and perhaps that parenting is difficult enough that it is necessary for more than one person alone to do it. While
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