Single Parenting

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The paper discusses the subject of single parenting, the demographics, contributing factors and issues with which single parents have to contend. The paper comments that the large percentage of single parents fall into the African American or Latin American racial / cultural origin group and highlights the reasons, needs and the problems experienced by this specific group and, more specifically, the effect that this has on the offspring.

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"Who are the single-parents? Where do they live? The vast majority of single parents are women, are of African American or Latin American racial / cultural origin, are below the national average for household income, are below the age of thirty when they first became a single parent, and therefore a significant number of the children of single parents are living in conditions that would be potentially much better were there to be two wage earners in the home."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Anderson, Digby. "Dead Issues". National Review. Jan 29, 1996 v48 n1 p49(2)
• Bradbury, Bettina. "Single parenthood in the Past". Historical Methods. Fall, 2000. v33. i4. p211.
• Carlin, David. "The single-parent trap: how our culture's mindless pursuit of freedom has made us ignore the obvious." Christianity Today, May 16, 1994 v38 n6 p35(2)
• Dornbusch, Sanford; Herman, Melissa & Lin, I-Chun. "Single Parenthood." Society. July-August 1996 v33 n5 p30(3)
• "Home Sweet Home". The Economist (US Edition). Sept 9, 1995 v336 n7931 p25(3).

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