...Single parenting in the 21st century is vastly different than it was in years past. Done away are the days of the traditional American family with two parents, two children, and a dog, as the only model of a family. The American dream has evolved. Now it is socially acceptable to choose to be a single parent. There are many circumstances that would lead to a decision by mothers and fathers to choose single-parenting as an option or a result. Various circumstances, such as adoption, divorce, death, and incarceration can result in becoming a single parent. Children growing up in single parent households can and have become responsible citizens in his or her adult lives. Today, society recognizes the reality, that single-parent family households is considered to be as normal as two-parent family households. With the prevalence of mixed families, single parents are on the rise, if not for a small period of time between marriages. When married couples decide to divorce, the newly single parent may start a new family; thus creating mixed or extended families. In addition, the divorce rates in the United States are over 50 percent, making it less likely for two parents to raise a child. Also, with the increase of affluence in the United States, prior to the economic bust, raising a child above the poverty level has become much more of a likelihood. A vast number of African Americans were left destitute and in poverty at initiation of the Vietnam War. As many African American...
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...All over the world, single-parents are fighting hard to raise a family on their own. Being supported by one income, and supporting the family by themselves, single-parents have a very challenging job. The single-parent has to be a dual parent to take care their family and be the only breadwinner. With the increasing numbers of divorce and death, single-parents are becoming more acceptable. In the United States today, single-parents are the second most common type of household. In the United States today, the number of single-parent homes is rising. More and more families are becoming reliant on only one parent. Many single-parent families are formed because of the increasing number of divorce and death. Another reason is that woman are having children earlier on in life without the sacrament of marriage. In the article, The unbelievable rise of single motherhood in America over the last 50 years states, “More women are having their children later in life. Or they're doing so in less traditional ways: before marriage, without marriage, or with unmarried partners. Single motherhood has grown so common in America that demographers now believe half of all children will live with a single mom at some point before the age of 18” (Badger)....
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...Race and Poverty: Factors of the African American Achievement Gap Abstract The proposed action research study will pinpoint factors that contribute to the African American academic achievement gap. These factors impact not only the lives of families in the African American community but continues a vicious cycle of generations of poverty that hinders our country’s ability to effectively compete economically and also threatens America’s capacity to provide social equality for all. The participants in this study will comprise of parents and students of highly concentrated poverty - low academically performing African American public schools. Thirty two parents and thirty two students from eight low performing-poverty schools in the research study will be interviewed and surveyed online. Collected information and data will be researched employing qualitative and quantitative practices. Introduction There was a time when children of color were denied the hope and expectation of equal education because of racial isolation and discrimination in America’s education system. Although it’s been well over 50 years since Brown –vs.- The Board of Education which established equal education for all, today we are still faced with large racial disparities in reading and math proficiency between African American children and their thriving white contemporaries. This purpose of this study is to illustrate the connection that occurs between race and poverty with the academic...
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...A: Manuscript Hello students and thank you for inviting me here today. I am very honor to talk about the African-American for the British students. Someone knows how I am and someone does not. So I will start to introduce myself. My name is Roland Fryer and I am professor of economics at Harvard University. I know that you have studied about African-Americans. But I know I will talk about the African-American you did not know and some of this I talk about will probably surprise you. In my talk I will talk about racial inequality and answer some questions on this topic. Questions such as: Why are African-Americans so much less prosperous than whites? Why do so many black children flounder in school? I will start to talk about how it is in America today and the conditions of the African-Americans of today. I explain why their situation is, as it is and talk about family background, education, the labor market, suggests how to narrow the gap between black and white Americans in future and finally I will discuss the importance of role models. My story I had never thought that I would become a Harvard professor, especially if you asked me when I was 15 years old. If you asked me when I was 15 years old what I would be doing when I was 30. I will answer that I would probably be dead. At that time I was hanging out with a gang and selling drugs on the side. My parents split up when I was very young. At one time I had to borrow money to bail my father out of jail. My great-aunt...
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...about racial and social tension in the “mean” streets of Los Angles, California. It’s about several real life incidents that portray discrimination and different stereotypes amongst different racial groups. Within a 36 hour day period car crashes, shooting, carjacking, racial profiling are all mentioned. They reveal the distance between different strangers due to racial tension. Rarely do you see fathers taking an active role in their children’s lives. Most fathers are the bread winners in their family and don’t have time to be in their children’s lives as often as a mother. Most fathers are usually the ones that get involved with the sports life of the child. Involved fathering is a father who actively takes a hand on role with the family, doing more than providing economically. In the movie Crash (2004) Daniel Ruiz’s (Michael Peña), character is a Mexican American who is a locksmith, who faces discrimination because he looks like a “Mexican gangster.” He is actually a devoted single father who takes care of his young daughter; Lara, who seeks for a safe environment for his daughter because of a bullet through her window in their previous home. When he found a safer neighborhood he enrolled her in private school so she would get an excellent education. She has to stay home by her self while she sleeps, so he made up a wonderful story about a “cloak”. He said that it would protect her from being harmed just like it protected him all these years. This demonstrates involved fathering...
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...Steinberg Stereotypes Two story plots from famous shows today can really show how our society looks at different races. Stereotypes can be seen very well in particularly “Everybody Hates Chris” and “George Lopez.” In both of this series, the writers make it a huge focus on how stereotypes are given to people with a certain race. Both shows I will analyze to show the positive and negative stereo types that are shown. Everybody Hates Chris is a show that many ethnic groups can connect and relate to. The show is about an African American 13 year old that lives in the projects of New York City. After leaving their old house, the family moves to the “nicer” side of Bed Stuy during a crack epidemic. Instead of going to his local high school, his parents force him to go an all-white high school in the safer part of the city. Chris doesn’t want to go because he will be the only black kid and doesn’t know anybody at the school. During the first day of school Chris is walking down the hallway when a white classmate steps on his shoes and knocks over his textbooks. Next the classmate insults Chris by saying “nice shoes bojangles” and Chris immediately replies “Bojangles? , that’s not what your mother was calling me when I was tap dancing in her pants last night .” The crowd around them gasps in shock and the classmate instantly lands a punch on Chris right in the stomach and falls on the principle. Right after he falls, the principal suspends Chris from school for fighting (Rock,...
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...The Effects of Family Structure and Values on Juvenile Delinquency Christina M. Bracey 201240 Fall 2012 CJUS 230-B02 LUO Professor DeBoer Liberty University Online October 12, 2012 Abstract The changes in family values and structure in the United States has helped contribute to juvenile delinquency today. Society needs to recognize problems within the home before trying to find solutions to problems for todays at risk youth in America. Major structural changes inside of the home could adversely affect the raising of juveniles leading to delinquency. Some of the issues I will discuss in my paper are divorce, child abuse, mothers working outside of the home, and single-parent homes. Ineffectively raising a child can cause low self-control and low self-esteem while increasing the risks of delinquency as well. I will argue that with proper supervision, counseling, and monitoring of the behavior of the juvenile, it is possible that society can help eliminate some of the crimes committed by juvenile delinquents. Thesis The changes in family values and structure in the United States has helped contribute to juvenile delinquency today Introduction Family Structure has changed noticeably in the United States over the past several decades. It refers to various family characteristics that affect relationships and how families function. These characteristics include family size, family disruption, and birth order. High rates of divorce, single-parent housing, the spreading...
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...America today is probably the number one country with the most cultural diversity with yet not much culture at all. America has so much diversity because America accepts immigrants from all around the world, these immigrants making up social groups such as; Italians, Asians, Chinese, African Americans, Polish, Germans, Arabs, Indians and so on. Culture comes from each of these social groups. Culture is the behaviors, ideologies, and molding principles of a group, each social group has its own beliefs such as celebrations, rituals, art, style of cooking and more. This causing culture to be a huge impact in society. Culture impacts me in almost every aspect of life, because it is everywhere around me. One of the biggest ways culture impacts me...
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...Unit 4IP Sociology Hulena Shaw AIU Online The American Family has change in many ways since the 1960s. According to Castolle(2011), “ The last 50 years have seen a dramatic rise in divorce (the U.S. has the highest of any industrialized nation), cohabitation rather than marriage, “blended” families of both gay and heterosexual design, and children born out of wedlock (more than half of all African-American children).” It has become the norm for children to grow up with a single parent rather than both parents being there. Some say this has weakened the family structure that we have known and believe this is the cause of so many problems in society. The economy has also played a role in how the family has changed (Board, 2012). Single parents have to work sometimes more than one job because of survival. This leads to the children having to either be at home alone or at childcare. Kids haves been raising siblings which they are inadequate for them to do .Children are being raised with any structure. The stuff they need to be able to function in the world is being sacrifices. Also we have some of these single families being low income which leads them to live in neighborhoods where crime is on a rise. It is hard for them to overcome this. It is also happening in two parent homes too. We got both parents having to work because they can’t survive on one income. Children are spending more of their time at some form of childcare or school. They are learning lots of their behavior...
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...African American Literature ENG/301 Kristina Brooks March 12, 2012 The African American Literature and its history was an interesting subject or ethnic literary to learn about. This literature’s readings showed a great deal of different moments or life events that the different authors experienced as well as tragic events, and heart felt pain they endured over their lifetime. Some authors talked about the wonderful life they lived and how blessed they were to be a white man’s slave. I will be discussing the different views and relations in each of the readings along with the racist remarks and overall way they were treated as an African American over different periods of time. The first reading I want to talk about is, “White Folks Treated Us Good,” by Marriah Hines. In this reading Hines talks about how life as a slave for the white folks was great, so great, that when slavery ended and African Americans were given their freedom, she stayed because of the way her master treated her and stayed loyal to him and his family until he passed away. During the time of slavery, Hines, was never treated bad, nor was she ever beaten or raped by her masters. While some people were starved, and treated like cats and dogs, Hines, was fed and clothed and kept them on a higher level (Hines, M p.34). The next reading I will be talking about is, “To my old Master,” by Jourdan Anderson. This story is a great message about how...
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...POVERTY AMONG AFRICAN AMERICANS AND WHITES IN LATIN 2 AMERICA AND THE UNITED STATES Abstract This article reports the relationship between the United States immigrant and African- American families presented by Daniel Patrick Moynihan in his 1965 report to President Lyndon Johnson remains the most popular folk model for explaining success, failure and mutual aid in “poverty.” The Moynihan model is an enduring part of popular discourses on race, intensified by contemporary immigrant successes narratives. The participant observation research among homeless African-American families and Latin American families had participated in a small business creation in New York City which happened more than three years ago. When kinship norms are typically American, it is said that certain immigrant family forms are more suited to mutual aid crisis. The African- American family is misused as being dysfunctional. It gives an overview of the demographic of “poverty” and how these demographics have changed since 1979. It also considers trends that have emerged over the last few decades and reconsiders the successes and failures of past public policy. It also identifies the growing feminization of poverty and the growing Latino population as the primary challenges currently facing public makers...
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...group expects to be treated as a separate entity, or be considered just Americans without the hyphen. Is the United States better off by classifying individuals by their ethnic background? What do we actually gain by these separate entities? Why is the government so concerned on everyone’s ethnic background? These are just a few of many questions that are being discussed and I will answer based on facts. While mixed racial and cultural groups continue to rise in the United States, it seems that the vast majority continues to pursue their separate ethnicity with-in the United States, but when approached abroad with-in another country, they seem to consider themselves as Americans vice African-American, Mexican American, Asian American, etc. (Perez and Hirshmann, “The Changing Racial and Ethnic Composition of the United States). Many Americans have multiple identities that reflect complex ancestral origins, tribal and communal associations, and varied ideological outlooks on race and culture. In general, people do not change their ethnicities as a matter of fashion, but they may emphasize different aspects depending on the circumstances. The United States is better off by classifying everyone by their ethnic background for one simple reason; to accurately report the origins of their parents, grandparents, and more distant ancestors. In many cases, knowledge of ancestral origins is passed along in families or communities, but...
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...work at home, and since family sizes were larger and there was no gas, electricity, home appliances, telephone, running water or indoor plumbing, housework much harder. Therefore, staying at home and taking care of the family and the home was a full-time job for women. Sometimes, women would earn money at home by taking in boarders. Sons were sent to school until they were twelve or fourteen and then put to work, the age was later raised to 16 as the necessity for education grew. Daughters either worked part-time for wages or at home with their mothers. All children, male or female, were expected to turn over their wages to their parents. In the 1960s, the baby boom happened because men and women were so stable financially they did not see a problem with having many children in a short period of time. Men found it easy to get jobs straight out of highschool, were able to pay enough to support families and had job security. However, at this time, life was very different for African American citizens. For African American families, men were not the only ones considered to be “breadwinners,” as women were always expected to work outside of the home. This caused...
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...The Single Mom NURS 440 April 26, 2015 Deanna Radford There are a lot of assumptions out there about single parents and particularly single moms. For example, there are people who believe that most single moms choose to raise their kids solo, are unemployed, and receive government assistance. While every story is different, most don’t support these assumptions. Once largely limited to poor women and minorities, single motherhood is now becoming the new “norm”. This prevalence is due in part to the growing trend of children born outside marriage, a societal trend that was virtually unheard of decades ago. When you examine U.S. Census data, the actual single parent statistics may surprise you. Single Parents by the Numbers According to the U.S. Census Bureau, there are approximately 13.7 million single parents in the United States today, and those parents are responsible for raising 22 million children. This number represents approximately 26% of children under 21 in the U. S. today. Despite negative assumptions that most single moms “selfishly” chose to raise their kids solo, the majority of individuals raising children alone started out in committed relationships and never expected to be single parents. Of all single-parent families in the U.S., single mothers make up the majority. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, out of about 12 million single parent families in 2014, more that 80% were headed by single mothers. Today...
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...Really hear news Reports on the growing percentage of Americans living in poverty, or the ways the government is trying to fix this issue. I grew up in Detroit, Michigan where more than a third of residents live below the poverty line (Sasha Abramsky, "America's Shameful Poverty Stats"). Throughout my childhood I have watched many friends' families struggle financially. Sometimes my friends would go without eating for a couple of days simply because they could not afford it. I would offer them food but they would kindly decline because they were so embarrassed because of their situation. They would wear clothes that wouldn't fit them because they couldn't afford to buy new clothes. They would miss school to watch their little siblings because their mom was a single parent and had to work all day everyday just so she could feed them. They didn't even apply to college because they knew they had to immediately pick up a crapy job so they could help their mom pay the bills. The list goes on. All of this is happening under your supervision and it doesn't seem like much is affectively fixing this issue. America's lowest percentage of citizens living below the poverty line was 11.1 percent in 1973. It reached 15.2 percent in 1983 then dropped again to 11.3 percent in 2000 (Peter Edelman, "Poverty in America; Why Can't We End It?"). That just proves the government is capable of slightly decreasing the amount of poor people today in this country. What does not help is the fact that...
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