Single Parent: ONE PARENT, NO PROBLEMS
SOME HEADS OF WELL-ADJUSTED, REASONABLY HAPPY HOMES RESENT THE ``TROUBLED'' SINGLE-PARENT STEREOTYPES THEY SEE IN THE MEDIA.
Diana Godwin Praeger is a divorcee who has been a single parent for 10 years. She is also a part-time college student, full-time bookkeeper and president of the Derby Board of Education in Derby, Kan. And she has officially had enough.Her daughters, Katie, 21, a senior majoring in business at Kansas State University, and Maria, 16, an incoming junior at Derby High School, are happy and well-adjusted. They make good grades, they don't drink or do drugs, and they...
Single Parent: SINGLE-PARENT HOUSEHOLDS HERE AND AROUND THE NATION PHILADELPHIA RANKED 20TH OUT OF 46 METROPOLITAN AREAS.
Thirty percent of all American families - and 63 percent of the nation's black families - are headed by single parents, a great many of whom live in the city of Camden, the New York metropolitan area and Albany, Ga.Those three places are not often attached to one another in the same sentence, but all share a high percentage of single-parent households with children under 18. In fact, if all households with children under 18 are counted in the Philadelphia suburban area, the...
Single Parent: Broken homes seem normal to today's kids
6 in 10 will spend time in a single-parent home
A traditional family of the 1950s model may have meant a homemaking mom and a career-minded dad living together, but Allison Farr's childhood experience is more the norm today. Her parents divorced when she was 3. She lived with her mom and her sister in a single-parent home until this spring, when she moved in with her dad and her stepmother. "When I was in middle and elementary school, quite a few of my friends' parents were divorced, and now...
Single Parent: State help for single-parent families
AS SINGLE-PARENT families become more common worldwide, how are other governments responding to the challenge? Melody Tan summarises the key perks that single parents get in some developed countries.SINGAPORE Situation: In 2000, single-parent households accounted for 8.7 per cent of all households here.Initiatives: All working mothers - married or not - can qualify for a centre-based child-care subsidy of up to $150 a month. They can also apply for a monthly infant care subsidy of...
Single Parent: Study explores single-parent kids A major new study finds that children from single-parent families are more likely to suffer psychological problems as they grow up
Study explores single-parent kids A major new study finds that children from single-parent families are more likely to suffer psychological problems as they grow up By EMMA ROSS AP Medical Writer LONDON - Children growing up in single-parent families are twice as likely as their counterparts to develop serious psychiatric illnesses and addictions later in life, according to an important new study. Researchers have for years debated whether children from broken homes bounce back or whether they...
