Aid for Single Mothers

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The paper studies the ways in which specific children are able to succeed in school, with the focus on AFDC, or Aid to Families with Dependent Children. The paper first looks to define AFDC families, then gives statistics to illustrate the difficulties these children face in the academic environment. The writer also includes commentary by theorists who study this phenomenon.

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"Other scholars with the "cultural" perspective extend the impact of the negative socialization to the surrounding environment, including the neighborhood and the schools (Duncan, Hill, & Hoffman, 1988, p. 470). In reality, children from low-income single mother families live in poor neighborhoods and go to low-quality schools (Bennett, 1995, p. 25; Duncan, Hill, & Hoffman, 1988, p. 470). Since most of the school funding comes from local property taxes, poor districts have little funding to provide a decent education for their constituents (Horn, 1987, p. 66). In these neighborhoods, the role models for these children are often unemployed adults, criminals and juvenile delinquents. There are no resources for child development, such as playgrounds, child care, medical facilities and parks (Duncan & Brooks-Gunn, 1997, p. 71). Furthermore, to survive in these tough neighborhoods, the children are taught at a young age to be aggressive and intimidate other people, a behavior that is not helpful for performing well in school (Bower, 1994, p. 24)."

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