...head: Cultural Influence in Development Cultural Influences in Development Fhameka Lewis February 10, 2015 Argosy University Single Moms Single moms face a challenge within their lives. Some mothers become single through divorce and while others become single outside of wedlock. However, there is no set age for a single mom. Statics states that most females become single moms before they finish high school and is receiving some type of government assistance for help. The average single mom has either dropped out of school or working a minimum paying job. Because of the high cost of living rate it is impossible for these single moms to provide a healthy life for their children. Therefore the Department of Human Service is stepping up to the platform to help these moms seek better jobs and receive a better education. The Jefferson County Department of Human Services will be offering a variety of workshops for all single moms in the surrounding communities. The workshop is called Single Moms Taking Control, and will be on Thursday June 3, 2015 during the hours of 9:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. The purpose of the workshop will be to provide guidance and resources for all the single moms who which to go back to school to receive their GED or for those who which to obtain a degree in higher education. The workshops will also help the moms with resources to maintaining a healthy relationship with their family. Also throughout the workshops there will be venders there who will...
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...So I've been talking to this single mom for a while now, and today she admitted to me that she been having an affair with a married man not too long ago. When I started talking to this girl I thought she was a pretty good and understanding person. Now I'm not so sure about her. I didn't mind she is a single mom as long as she is a good person I was willing to take chance with her. But her story about her affair threw me off. I am glad she told me about it. I know she want me to feel sorry for her, and be here to comfort her. i didnt what said to her so i just told her some man aren't man, and she shouldn't waste on a married man. I try my best not judge her but me, being a hmong man, with my own understanding and perspective, I think she...
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...Challenges Single Moms Face Liberty University Abstract The purpose of this paper is to inform our society of the significant challenges single mom face. Raising children in this era is a very difficult task for couples and it brings greater challenges when is done by a single parent. This paper explores the emotional, psychological and financial aspect of raising children as a single mom as well as the main reasons why. It will review the causes and consequences in which it affects children, parents and entire families. There is data that has been collected where it indicates the reasons why there has been an increase and the impact that it has on children and adolescents. There are ways single moms overcome challenges. II. Introduction to Challenges Single Mom Face According to DeBell( 2008), about half of American children will spend part of their childhood in a single- parent family. DeBell stated that the absence of a father in a child’s home, the most consequential trend of our time, leads to social disaster(Pg. 427). Goldenberg (2008), states that a dysfunctional family, by definition, has failed to fulfill its purpose of nurturing the growth of its members. Single-parent families are more common in today’s society and are...
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...Family Systems How can one discern a healthy family system? Within a healthy family system, the children will be the main concern. It is very important that children get the required vaccinations. If a child doesn’t obtain their immunization shots, it could be fatal. The immunizations are to fight off diseases. Before a child can enter school, their vaccinations must be completed. Parents make sure they go to the doctor for routine check up to ensure proper development. According to Feldman, as children grow the intake of food can be lessened. Children should not be made to eat more than they actually want. By making them eat more, may expand their level of intake. When it comes to mealtime, children should be given the opportunity to pick nutritional foods that they enjoy. Although they may choose certain foods, it’s the parent job to get them to try new things (Feldman 205-207). What are the determining factors that distinguish healthy family systems? The determining factors would be the parenting that the child receives. What a child faces at home has a lot to do with how they act outwardly. Children may face so many different things in the home. If a child has a loving, supportive, and nurturing home, he or she can accomplish anything. There are many different types of parenting in this chapter. According to Feldman, authoritarian parents respond as in the first alternative. “They are controlling, punitive, rigid, and cold. Their word is law, and they value strict...
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...Eng. 111 Thematic Movie Review My Life Without The Extras My life without the extras is depicted very eloquently in one of my favorite movies in the past year, The Single Moms Club. The Single Moms Club is a 2014 American comedy-drama film produced, written, and directed by Tyler Perry. Released in theatres on May 9, 2014 and to DVD on July 22, 2014, The Single Moms Club is an adequate depiction of the struggles in the life of these single mothers. The lead actresses of this movie are Jan (Wendi McLendon-Covey), May (Nia Long), Esperanza (Zulay Henao), Hillary (Amy Smart), and Lytia (Cocoa Brown). In The Single moms club, schoolyard child’s play at an Atlanta prep school brings a diverse group of women to the principal's office. Their misfits were caught smoking and tagging at school, so these culture clashed women are tasked with organizing a dance and fundraiser as the “parental punishment.” The plot and the characters make The Single Moms Club the wonderful and home hitting movie that I will watch time and time again. The moms are a diverse bunch. Jan is a stern, all-business type trying to make partner where she works but not without the snotty attitude of her little trouble-making daughter. In one of the film's many coincidences, she recently rejected a story idea from May for being urban. May is a journalist and aspiring author, trying to guide her troubled son Rick through the rough waters of having a father that does what he wants but at the expense of...
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...Thesis: The challenges of being a single parent include managing finances, responsibilities and resources The challenge of being a single parent has become harder over time. The fact is that over time things have changed but not for a single parent. Statics show that there has been a steady rise for five decades and that the births to unmarried women has crossed a threshold. An example of this would be, a single mom that can’t provide day care for her child because her income is not enough to pay the bills and day care. The challenges of being a single parent include, managing finances, responsibilities and resources, their work is never done nor are their struggles. One of the challenges a single mom has raising her son and daughter would be getting up at 4am taking 3 buses to transport her children to her mother (who lives on the other side of town). Spending 2 hours getting there and another 3 buses and a hour and a half getting to work. There is a limit on everything she does because she does not have the opportunity to get an education, she has to work and provide for her family. Pawning valuables to make ends meet when money is short, living from pay check to pay check. Child support is another challenge for a single mom when the children’s father does not work, all the financial responsibility is on the single parent. Another challenge to a single mom is that because she is a woman, to keep from being taken advantage of, she will pay more money for rent to keep...
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...Single Parent Family Poverty Needs to be solved It seems poverty is an idea still far away from us. After all it is not very often for you to see homeless people or those can barely survive with limit amount of food around us every day. However suddenly British Columbia has the highest child poverty in entire Canada. This has a lot to do with the poverty of the single parent families, which I believe should be concerned as primary and solved with through effort from us all. Children are the future of a nation. Their lives should be well protected away from poverty and share equal opportunities to be educated like others. However, due to the report, it is hard to say our children are in a good move. “Child poverty in British Columbia has increased 4.3 per cent since last year's numbers.” (BC single moms the poorest of them all, P1) The number didn’t just increased, but also made it above average. “B.C.'s child poverty rate is 5.3 per cent higher than the national average.” (BC single moms the poorest of them all, P7) The majority reason caused this problem is large amount of these children are living in single parent families, especially, in single mother families. The report pointed out, “Sixty per cent of kids in poverty lived with two parent families, 36 per cent with single moms, and four per cent in other family arrangements, including single parent dads.” (BC single moms the poorest of them all, P7) Families with low income will be unlikely to get out of poverty, and...
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...I’m Kylee Reid, and I’ve been through a lot. People have been through a lot worse than me, but I still believe I have it a bit tougher than others when it comes to family and money. My mother and Dustin, my biological father, haven’t seen each other in a long time. Dustin cheated on her and my mom left him once she found out his other girlfriend was having a baby. Leaving Oklahoma as a single woman with both her children was hard. For most of my childhood, I haven’t had the “perfect” dad. There was one that stole our TV and one that went to prison for 27 years. My mom has been eat her single or in a toxic relationship. Every time she left that relationship, we moved. I am not calling her a bad mother, I am calling her a hard working one....
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...Jnae Young Professor Leigh Ann Christian English 101 Teen pregnancy is now an epidemic in the United States; teens are having unprotected sex knowing the repercussions and consequences of it. “Nearly one million teen girls get pregnant each year. Nearly four out of 10 young women get pregnant at least once before they turn 20.1 Each year the federal government alone spends about $40 billion to help families that began with a teenage birth (Statistics ).” This new social phenomenon is spreading widely and becoming a calamity. The consequences of teen pregnancy are devastating. Some parents are left to raise kids on their own as single parents, and some teens have to drop everything and do not even get to finish high school. Children born to teen parents have higher rates of foster care placement, teen parents struggle with finance issues, and it is more likely for babies to be neglected when born to teen parents. Abstinence of course is the number one prevention method for teen pregnancy, which is the only method that is one hundred percent effective. If tens just waited until they were older, instead of having sex so quickly there certainly would not be as many teen mothers. The reality of the situation at hand is that teens are having sex and at very young ages, do not use contraceptives and get pregnant. One real common cause of teen pregnancy, that being unprotected sex. Teens are not using contraceptives as much as they should and some not at all; the reasoning behind...
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...FINAL MARKETING PLAN EXECUTIVE SUMMARY We are currently living in the smartphone revolution; over 157.8 million smartphones were sold in the final quarter of 2011 alone (Brownlow). 46% of all mobile subscribers own a smartphone, and the top selling applications for these users are location services. One thing that location services are leveraging, is the new FCC mandate which is requiring all cellphones to have GPS by the year 2018. This is due to the decrease in landline use, and the 911 emergency services is required to have a way to pinpoint a callers location in case of any emergency. So what does this mean for users, there will have to be a way to track cellphones in the near future, and everyone will be on board. SITUATIONAL ANALYSIS Marketing Summary In 2008 iTunes App Store launched 500 apps, and by 2012 they had 500,000 apps for sale. Analysts at Gartner that 4.5 billion apps would be downloaded in 2010 and 17.7 billion by 2011 estimated it. According to Gartner, he predicted a 185 billion downloads in 2014, which will produce $58 billion in revenue. The more popular apps are games, Google maps, Facebook app, entertainment, media related apps, and other special interest apps. A series of projections indicate that the number of apps for sale in the future will target special interest niches. This number will continue to increase as technology facilitates having access to information at your fingertips. Advances in applications have changed the way...
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...Alvin, the founder of Yayasan Sunbeams Home, for all that he has done for me. I came to Sunbeams in the year 2001. I was 6 years old then. I can still remember that sad and fearful day for my sister, Joanna 4, and me. The picture of that fateful day is still vivid in my mind. I remember Joanna crying and holding tightly onto mom’s hand. I was confused and did not know what was actually happening. I did not know then, that both Joanna and I would not be returning home with mom that day. I might not understand many things then, but one thing I knew - that mom still loved us. Before she left us behind at sunbeams that sad day, mom bought a cake for me. We celebrated my birthday with the other children of sunbeams home. Years later, when I grew older and wiser, I found out that mom had no choice but to leave Joanna and me in the care of Pastor Alvin because she was not able to do so. She became a ‘single mom’ after her separation from my dad who had depression. My mom could not cope with being a ‘single mom’ and she too, fell into depression. I reaped the result of living the disciplined life at Sunbeams. I studied hard at school, obtained good results and managed to get into a college to further my studies. With the help of kind people who sponsored my tertiary studies, I was able to complete this higher education. I am who I am today because Pastor Alvin and the late Pastor Lucy took me in and nurtured me. I would like to take this opportunity to thank Ps Victor and Miss Yaw...
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...Personal Statement I stood in the doorway, watching my mom fight back her tears, as she studied the bills. “What’s wrong?” I said as I looked over her shoulder. “Nothing, just looking at some papers,” she said as her eyes were raging up with more water. As I stared deeply into her eyes I knew that things were going to take a turn. When I was younger my family and I would go on a lot of vacations like Disneyland and the beach. As I got older in seventh grade, the vacations would be from ten times a year to once every six months. Growing up, I always thought I would be protected because I was the youngest, but growing up with a single mom only having one full-time job made me come to realization. My mom always made sure I had everything I needed compared to the other kids at school, but to do so cost her significant stress. “Mom if we are in trouble, tell me…I am a part of this family too,” I said looking into her eyes. “Well, we’re having a little trouble paying the bills with your brother in college and your sister wanting to go back to college, and the debt is adding up”, my mom said with a scare. “Mom, if we’re having trouble, then I guess I could sell candy or pretend to be a hobo on the corner, anything for you mom,” I said with a great smile. My mother broke into laughter, “I love you so much. You always find a way to put a smile on my face,” she said smiling and laughing at me with a great smile. Making her laugh made my heart melt. Her laugh was one...
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...Hero’s come in many shapes and sizes form: a women who helps single moms cope with the struggles of cancer, a doctor who walks the streets of Chicago to look for wonders victims of gang violence, and another doctor who dresses up as a homeless person to gain the respect of them so he can help them. Heroes are very important to be able to have faith in the world. At the beginning of this semester a hero was just someone who could soar around in the sky and save people who are in destress. But as I read more into the lives of the humans I realize a hero can be your next door neighbor. a hero is somebody who puts themselves behind others, who lives everyday like is for someone else, someone who inspires people to to better at anything life may throw at them. Dr. Daniel Ivankovich is an orthopedic surgeon who works in Chicago’s bad side. He helps treat victims who have gotten shot gun wounds from gang crimes. “For 20 years, Ivankovich witnessed countless people struggling to get medical treatment because they did not have insurance or were underinsured. They were put on wait lists for months, even years, just to receive basic procedures, and their injuries got worse.” (Klainmont). Anybody who can go out and look for victims on the streets of the bad side of Chicago. This man because of his will to go out and...
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...Jayson Tatum is a influential advocate of being a role model to younger people. Through his actions including the help out a mom program, leadership, and great teammate. “Growing up wasn’t the greatest with my mother that was single. So he told people that when he made it to the nba he would make a single mothers program.” He’s going to help help out families that only have a mom because he grew up that way and wants to give back. Giving back to him is like how he grew up with his single mother and now he wants other mothers to feel appreciated for all the work they do.The importance of Jayson Tatum's social movement is that he has with the single mothers and how he has impacted them. He has helped them buy giving them money and supplies...
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...Today’s Family Heather Miller Le Cordon Bleu Abstract When people envision family life in America they have pictures of the television shows of long ago that show dad, mom and two well-groomed and well-behaved children. Mom stayed at home baking pies, while dad toiled away at a white-collar job and the kids played in the street with the other neighbor children. Everyone had a cookie cutter live, and lived in their cookie cutter houses. Flash-forward to present day and no longer do people turn to the family life of fifty years ago as the norm, those types of relationships are a thing of the distant past. In any marriage or relationship there are gender roles, and social norms define them as a male and female role and no matter what type of relationship or marriage it is you are able to find these roles. The male role is still the one that is expected to be the bread winner, do household repairs and take care of yard work. While the female role is still expected to cook, clean and care of the children whether they have a job or not. Men who are the parent that takes on the female role in a household while their wife takes on the role of bread winner, are thought to be lesser of a man because he is allowing the wife to do the work. This is the issue of social norms people can feel as though they have failed if they are unable to accomplish them. If you look at relationships that do not fall into nuclear families, you can see there is still defined roles. Step-parenting...
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