Essays Tagged: "Single parent"

A character study on Atticus from the book: To Kill A Mockingbird.

one character who is able to make an impact on his children and both types of society. Atticus is a single parent who tries very hard to make everybody he interacts with satisfied. Atticus Finch has a ...

(7 pages) 79 0 4.7 May/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee

Licensed to parent

ount of school shootings, crime rates are as high as ever, and the number of children growing up in single parent homes is at a record high. It is my belief that all of these unfortunate circumstances ...

(4 pages) 79 0 4.0 Jul/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community > Children and Youngsters

Why do Women Work? Critical Analysis Paper

es of working disclosed in the article "Work". All in all the fact remains, whether male, female or single parent, to whichever category we fit, we have to work as it satisfies the most little of reas ...

(4 pages) 133 1 3.4 Feb/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies

Organism reproduction with an emphasis on meiotic cell disivion

rocesses, asexual and sexual reproduction. Asexual reproduction is the production of offspring by a single parent. Offspring produced asexually inherit their DNA from only one parent and are genetical ...

(4 pages) 60 0 4.0 Feb/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Interracial Families in Family Relations: history, strengths & benefits, challenges.

qualities; and shows us how loved we are. This group takes on many forms today--including those of single parent, foster, extended, and interracial. However, families are becoming increasingly diffic ...

(5 pages) 182 0 4.1 May/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Black Awareness & Racism

Analysis of the movie "Parenthood".

a better parent than his own father. His sisters are struggling with their own family issues: one a single parent and the other trying to raise a genius-child. Gil's brother is the black sheep of the ...

(3 pages) 149 1 4.0 Jul/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies

How divorce affects children's wellbeing.

ce on our children.It is estimated that nearly one half of children born today will spend time in a single parent household watching mommy go down on her boyfriends. Although some of these children ar ... y and divided loyalties that the children may feel.Among the already dreary statistics, children of single parent households are at risk for becoming delinquent, and daughters are at an increased risk ...

(5 pages) 184 0 4.3 Jul/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community > Children and Youngsters

A Single Mom and School.

A Single Mom and SchoolI am a twenty-eight year old single parent. I have four children, three boys an ... ool, but sometimes wonder what did I get myselfInto. It is very challenging for me, that is being a single parent and trying to manageBeing a fulltime mother and a student. Sometimes I feel like the d ...

(5 pages) 96 1 4.1 Oct/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

This is a discursive essay on abortion, describing the views of both pro choice and pro life groups.

oman may choose to terminate her pregnancy each different from the next. She might not want to be a single parent, she doesn't want to marry her partner, he can't or won't marry, or she isn't in a rel ...

(3 pages) 109 0 3.0 Oct/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

This essay is about how a divorce is, in some cases, better than the couple staying together.

realize that a constantly bickering family can hurt children more than if they lived happily with a single parent. Life with two people who obviously should not live together takes a large emotional t ... ho obviously should not live together takes a large emotional toll on a person. True, living with a single parent does have its hardships, but a child can manage better in this environment than if he ...

(2 pages) 104 5 4.3 Nov/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays

Report on Australia's declining birth rates.

if ever, due to her place in the labor force. Also the role of the contraceptive pill, abortion and single parent homes have had a significant impact on the fertility rates in Australia.How has this i ...

(5 pages) 34 0 3.0 Nov/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Anthropology

College admission essay

was a child, I have been noted for my exceptional empathy. Raised by my grandmother and my mum as a single parent, I have always been involved with the elderly in my community. My grandmother instille ... would like someday to be a part of a nonprofit organization that helps professionally inexperienced single parents take advantage of programs available to them for aid, since my mother has been a sing ...

(1 pages) 273 2 3.3 Dec/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Persuasive Writing

The way we really are

tional family". Now it hard to believe that the majority of society today is becoming accustomed to single parent homes and women being a contributor to the households income. With today's society fil ... omes and women being a contributor to the households income. With today's society filled with these single parent homes, gay and lesbian parents, and families from different ethnic backgrounds, today ...

(5 pages) 88 0 4.3 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Changing families

hese community groups see the downfall ofsociety, as they perceive the family to be disintegrating. Single-parent homes, divorce,and Mothers that work outside of the home are her major topics.I agree ... tion in her article. The first topic she addresses is themisconception that society has with what a single parent home is today. There are manygroups within communities that point out how our society ...

(4 pages) 130 1 4.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith

The Unlikely Suspects

popular among their peers. They weren't the kids dressed in all black, nor were they the teens from single-parent homes. They were your footballplayers, cheerleaders, and honor-roll students. While ad ...

(2 pages) 36 1 4.3 Apr/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

The Argument For And Against Cloning

me one of the more emotive. Strictly speaking a cone refers to one or more offspring derived from a single ancestor, whose genetic composition is identical to that of the ancestor. No sex is involved ... aterial is introduced during procreation, clones have no choice but to have the same genes as their single parent. Simply speaking, clones are identical copy of their parents.About five years ago, on ...

(3 pages) 115 1 3.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

Atticus Finch. A Hero. [To Kill A Mockingbird]

e himself in a difficult time.Atticus had to overcome many challenges and take many risks. He was a single parent yet he raised his children to be well behaved, polite and open minded. To instill some ...

(2 pages) 69 2 4.4 May/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee

Broken Homes and Shattered Dreams: A Paper about family units in the 21st century

Shattered Dreams A family is a group of people living together and functioning as a single household, usually consisting of parents and their children. There are many types of families ... ally consisting of parents and their children. There are many types of families such as nuclear and single-parent. When people think of families, they usually think of two parents, one male and one fe ...

(3 pages) 61 0 0.0 Jun/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community > Children and Youngsters

Narrative Essay on How I Learned Not To Do Everything On My Own

s I crawled out from under the warm blankets, the cold air hit my warm face like a snowball.As a single parent of a five-year old daughter at the time, my mornings always unfolded with the hustle a ...

(2 pages) 54 0 5.0 Nov/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

U.S. Poverty

rest fifth received 3.5%. The official poverty line is an income of $18,400 for a family of four. A single parent of two working full-time for a minimum wage would make $10,712. 40% of homeless men ar ...

(4 pages) 140 3 4.3 Nov/2004

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays