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    Single parents often faces struggles in raising their families‚ it does not affect only the parent but the children also. Families become a single parent family because of a death of a spouse or a divorce. A single parent struggles on financial‚ emotional‚ and social challenges. Of the eyes of the child‚ seeing their parent busy all the time makes the child feel neglected. The parent and children becomes depress because of all the stress she/he faces and lack of time for each other. A single parent

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    Portfolio Project: Parent Stress Amanda N Clement February 21‚ 2015 Bryant & Stratton College Psychology 101: Principles of Psychology Ms. Jaynine Howard Abstract Being a parent its hard work in itself. However being a single parent it is multiplied. In the paper I will explain the stress of finances‚ discrimination‚ work load‚ and guilt that is put on a single parent. Keywords: parent‚ stress‚ discrimination‚ work‚ guilt‚ single Single Parent Stress Physics defines stress‚ as pressure‚ or a

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    how children get out of control if they don’t have both parents together to help raise them. Children can become aggressive‚ scream at their parents and reduce their excitement of becoming a professional in their life. Most children with a single parent are more likely to have a negative attitude. According to the website‚ (unmarriedamerica.org) there was 26.7 percent of kids living in a single parent household. Having both parents working together to raise their children increases the

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    The article “The Effects of a Single Parent Home on a Child’s Behavior” by Marnie Kunz. Single parents are defined as those who raise children without the help of the other biological parent in the home. Single parent families are determined by the sex of the primary care responsible for the children the majority of the time‚ and they can either be mother only are father only families. According to this article and the U.S Census Beau single parent families are on the rise. This article states

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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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    Single Parent Households Single Parent Households Family is defined in Webster’s dictionary as “a group consisting of parents and children living in a household together”. But not all families have a mother‚ father‚ and children. Some families only have one parent making it a single parent household. Since the 1960’s single parent households have been increasing year after year. Information provided by the U.S. Census Bureau shows an increase of 3% in single parent homes from 2008 to 2012

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    English May 31‚ 2010 Forty-five to fifty percent of marriages end in divorce and sixty percent of kids will have their parents separated at one point before they are eighteen. (Kittleson pg149) It is an all too genuine reality that a child will grow up in a single parent family because of this. That’s not even including the amount of kids who have faced the tragedy of a parent dying. These kids will have untold amounts of hardships and hurdles to face in their life‚ from not being able to play a

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    all 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

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    Task1 Research question What is the impact of being raised in a single parent family on students of the Corinth Secondary School? Rationale I chose to research this topic because it hurts me to see my friends from single parent families fall by the way side. I believe that they fall by the way side because the absent parent is inconsiderate. He (she) never took the time to think of the many difficulties and challenges the single parent would have in raising that child‚ not only in disciplining‚ but

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    of the main issues between family members. To provide quality life for the family‚ one or both parents fly abroad to work and leave their kids. On their resiliency on parental absence‚ children of overseas Filipino workers do understand that the idea of readily available work‚ amenities and bigger income offered in other countries pull certain group of parents to migrate. Thus children with migrant parents view this as an opportunity for better education and they have the means to enroll in private

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