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"single parent" Definitions
  1. a person who takes care of their child or children without a husband, wife or partner

634 Sentences With "single parent"

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SINGLE PARENT CREW Then I'm usually with my S.P.C. — my single parent crew.
The reality is that if you're a single parent — a child of a single parent, and you grew up in a single parent family neighborhood, you went to that single parent family school, the chance of you ever, ever reaching the top 20% of income earners is 3% in America.
They can't just be a single parent, they have to be a single parent who's 'struggled', who has to narrativize that process.
That chart is for a single parent with one child.
I get a high amount because I'm a single parent.
I hate being a "single parent," even to a dog.
Kayla, 25, is a working, single parent of two children.
More than 58.3 percent live in a single parent home.
Give the single parent of three a hand with her groceries.
Most of the time, I do well as a single parent.
Unlike Aaron, Candice and Tracey both come from single-parent households.
You could be a single parent, or have a unsupportive husband.
" Kristen Kane: Cleveland, Ohio "I am a single parent by choice.
Once upon a time, the heavenly father wasn't a single parent.
She's pretty much a single parent for me and my sister.
There are fewer marriages, more divorces and more single-parent families.
She had to work, she was a single parent of five kids.
And 81% of those single parent homes are headed by a mom.
And I had to confront the possibility of being a single parent.
More than a quarter of American children live with a single parent.
With him being a single parent, it means a lot to me.
I'm a single parent and live with my aunt and my son.
At the age of 23, Kim Zolciak-Biermann became a single parent.
Trump's sketchy tax plan has several categories for them: Single-parent households.
Many of these youngsters come from low-income, often single-parent households.
There's no question that children generally do worse in single-parent families.
I grew up in a single-parent household and am the oldest.
Parsons was born to a single-parent household in Fort McMurray, Alberta.
That's why I check in with the single parent crew every day.
I'm a single parent, so I can't just pick up and leave.
Triplets for a single parent who is deaf is — well beyond contemplation.
I lived in a single-parent home along with my four brothers.
Being raised by a single parent required an Emersonian amount of self-reliance.
And yes, I have definitely felt that feeling myself as a single parent.
My amazing mother became a single parent when I was 13 years old.
At first, she struggled to find resources about dating as a single parent.
But finding one with hours that worked for a single parent seemed impossible.
And for a single parent with a toddler, the MIS level is £37,000.
I'm an only child from a single-parent home; my mom is rad.
Do you still think you're "not cut out to be a single parent"?
I wanted different family situations — single parent, biracial situations, intact families, blended families.
Majors was raised in a single-parent household in Indiana, with little money.
A single parent can take the amount of two parents, or 328 days.  
That description may not apply to very poor, single-parent or struggling families.
I suppose I grew up in a single parent family, in that sense.
For a single parent with one child in college, it's a mere $2000,226.
Single-parent households have risen to 9% of all households in the country.
"We did so because she's a young mother, a single parent," Ms. Carrión said.
Most people with albinism in Kenya grow up in single-parent homes, experts say.
She was my cheerleader, disciplinarian, and as a single parent, she became my everything.
Shades of Jackson being a single parent in the future when she storms out.
Insta Age: 36 Occupation: Freelancer (visuals, art director, musician) and full-time single parent.
Previous estimates of extreme poverty have suggested it was concentrated amongst single parent families.
"Javi and I are definitely together," Walls, who is also a single parent, said.
As a single parent, Ms. Cannady considers herself to be without a support system.
He also adopted three children during his first marriage and as a single parent.
My mother was a single parent raising six children, and I was the youngest.
She raised her two sons as a single parent, according to The Mercury News.
The First Time My mother was a single parent for much of my youth.
I was a black and Native Hawaiian trans girl from a single-parent home.
Not bad for a farm kid who grew up in a single-parent household.
He told her that as a single parent, he was both mom and dad.
I was a single parent at the time because my husband and I had split.
Since the show aired, the number of children in single-parent homes has risen steadily.
"I am a single parent," Duff told CNN at a recent Stella Artois publicity event.
But at a more practical level women are the primary heads of single-parent families.
The pressures of raising three children as a single parent are heightened in this movie.
Because I am in a single-parent household with one income, that hits pretty hard.
He was raised in a single-parent home by his mother who worked long hours.
Emojis now showcase various skin tones, same sex couples, pregnancies, and even single-parent families.
Obviously, it's inherently difficult — financially and otherwise — to raise a child as a single parent.
Her program also includes 50 hours of free childcare every year for single-parent families.
That would make the adjustment to being a single-parent household much easier for everyone. 
Every single parent noticed that it had a huge gym but not a day care.
"I came from a single-parent home; he was raised by his grandmother," Joni says.
"We were six kids and she was a single parent with multiple jobs," he says.
Imagine you're a single parent trying to provide for your family on the minimum wage.
I get that, as a single parent, you are juggling a lot in the mornings.
She and Janak's father eventually divorced, and after years as a single parent, she remarried.
For a federal minimum-wage single parent with an infant, this represents 203% of their income.
But most importantly, Jones spoke openly about being a single parent (with a nanny, of course).
I was a teenager who also happened to be a single parent that really needed money.
Raised by a single mother, Kayla understood the sacrifices and struggles a single parent would face.
So that's why the Twists are a single-parent family, with the dad raising the kids?
For a federal minimum-wage single parent with an infant, this represents 75% of their income.
His government has announced measures to improve child care and increase support for single-parent families.
Perhaps they could even ease the challenges of single-parent homes (if they can afford them).
Many of the children who receive SSI live with a single parent and receive special education.
She managed to raise me as a single parent, and managed to turn her life around.
Being a single parent is no easy feat, especially if you add dating into the mix.
In order to be covered, a single parent has to earn less than $3,300 a year.
I started running down the street trying to get every single parent out of their cars.
If a widow has minor children, she thinks about money implications as a single-parent family.
They are also more likely to lead single-parent households, leaving them far less financially secure.
I do this because, as the head of a single-parent household, I'm the sole breadwinner.
Life in these communities will be dominated by single parent households, incarcerations, gang violence and drugs.
Children raised in single-parent homes face obvious statistical disadvantages, particularly those children living in poverty.
A single parent or grandparent could potentially invest $70,000 into the 529, right off the bat.
"I grew up with a single-parent home; both parents struggled with drug abuse," she said.
I was a single parent raising a daughter in the U.S. and working in logistics management.
For a single parent with a strong ability for catastrophic thinking, I sleep well at night.
"Most of the girls came from disadvantaged families, single-parent homes or foster care," Brown writes.
You've got the socially awkward kid Stefan Butler (Fionn Whitehead), who lives with his single parent dad.
Some never knew their fathers and were raised in single-parent households by their mothers or grandmothers.
As a single parent, she worked multiple jobs late into the night, hustling to pay our bills.
I was a woman of color not raised by her parents, divorced young, and a single parent.
Mom was determined to make sure I wasn't another single-parent-living-in-a-council-house statistic.
"It's hard to be a single parent, responsible for child care and house and mortgage," she said.
For a single parent or for someone supporting an ill family member, circumstances are considerably more difficult.
What if you're a single parent -- are there relatives and friends you can bring into your planning?
"Parents can only do so much, especially in single-parent households," Dr. Magge of Johns Hopkins said.
Whoever created this comes off as someone who hates low-income, single-parent-household, first-generation students.
If you're a single parent trying to navigate this new normal, we want to hear from you.
Of course, there are a few exceptions, such as if you're a single parent with a newborn.
She became a single parent when Singh was nine and worked hard to give her a good education.
The share of single parent households was 1% in the richest communities compared to 65% in the poorest.
And buying into the negative stereotypes about dating as a single parent can become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
"When you're a single parent, and that element of provider and protection is missing, it's scary," she said.
" She added, "When you're a single parent, and that element of provider and protection is missing, it's scary.
Particularly if you're a single parent or if you're on welfare, unable to access what the monied can.
During high school in his single-parent household, Rodriguez joined a gang to fit in and gain protection.
Dr. De Mars scored her gold as a single parent, while working full-time as an industrial engineer.
Japan's average marriage age has gone up five years since 1970, and single-parent households are increasingly common.
Altogether, each visit adds up to 220 to 400 dollars, not an easy expense for a single parent.
In 97 percent of single parent families, it's the mother who ends up taking responsibility for the kids.
I grew up in a single-parent home, and, by this time, my brother was away at college.
There was only so much my mom could've taught me—it was a single-parent home, you know.
"I was hopeless, hopeless, twice hopeless," said her mother, Diana Golovanova, who raised Sevastova as a single parent.
Globally, around one tenth of households are single parent families, and most of these are headed by women.
He was a single parent who had brought up a daughter and a son alone, for seventeen years.
"When you have a baby, everyone is expected to say, 'congratulations,'" said Stuart, who is a single parent.
In the early 1970s, as a teenager, she became a single parent when her daughter, Stacie, was born.
But as a young, single parent, there are other problems, too, like unreliable public transportation and low wages.
Shim, a father of two, said the group helped him to adjust to life as a single parent.
Her mother, a single parent, worked as a cashier, and she was raised by her grandmother in modest circumstances.
Zack is an only child to a single parent who believes he's perfect — pretty much self-sufficient at 16.
The screenwriter of Sausage Party has been open about being divorced and raising three children as a single parent.
When it was announced in June that Amanda was headed to Mexico, she responded to the single-parent shaming.
A schoolboy from a single-parent family in Vladivostok, in the far east, is punished for supporting Mr Navalny.
Though single parent households are becoming more common, my family structure still puts me in the minority in America.
As a single parent with a jam-packed career, Giada De Laurentiis knows when to call in for reinforcements.
"She was a single parent to Wesley and both of her parents had passed away from cancer," she says.
Meanwhile Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina feature in the top seven for the incidence of single-parent families.
Poorer parents are strapped for money and time; roughly 35% of children in America live in single-parent homes.
You should also be upfront about how much time you're able to dedicate to dating as a single parent.
"I thought I would have been judged about being a single parent before, which is just ridiculous," she said.
He grew up in a single-parent home on a limited income, and was a recipient of free lunch.
Without that support in place, millions of single-parent families are forced into lives of poverty, dependency, and despair.
Watson, who was raised in a single-parent household, is using the PSLF to go into public interest law.
As a single parent, I was already struggling with the demands of work and the needs of my kids.
"I'm engaged, but when it's morning time, I'm a single parent," she told me of raising her two children.
Also, 1 in 5 children currently live with a single parent, a number that has doubled in recent decades.
That's hard because I feel a sense of being incomplete without them and it makes her a single parent.
Or if you're a single parent worried that you won't be able to afford Christmas presents for your kids.
"I just wasn't prepared to be a single parent at that point in my life," Hunt, now 53, said.
Growing up in a blue collar, single-parent family in Lowell, Massachusetts, I learned the value of hard work.
A lot of the boys I see come from single parent backgrounds; their father is abroad or in jail.
What single parent can afford to take a day off work to wait to gather water for dependent children?
His mom worked supply in the Navy, a single parent with four boys; they didn't have a lot growing up.
His goal is to become a marriage and family therapist, with a focus on single parent mothers and their children.
In the pilot, flailing single parent Will Cooper (Saturday Night Live's Taran Killam) stumbles his way into the not-village.
To put it a little bit more specifically, in 1950, 70 percent of black children lived in single-parent households.
In December, the father of one penned an emotional essay for GQ about his first year as a single parent.
In 2014, Hemel notes, the poverty threshold for a single parent with two kids who rents her home was $24,216.
In 1960, 87 percent of children were living with two parents, while just 9 percent lived in single parent households.
I worried about becoming a stereotype, a stigma, despite coming from a loving, stable, middle-class single-parent home myself.
Half said they did not want to be a single parent or were having problems with their husband or partner.
A newly single parent of four and a former merchandise planner, Ms. Retik decided to switch career gears in 343.
Those of us who were raised the only child of a single parent know how intense the relationship can be.
"I grew up as the youngest of four in a single-parent household, raised by my dad," Day told Refinery29.
I was a single parent leaving a secure job as a teacher to work as an organizer for no money.
Children who are in single-parent households are more vulnerable and it can push them into many forms of exploitation.
More than a third live with a single parent, and others are being raised by a grandparent or another adult.
And Kimberly Matula makes $15 an hour as a cook, but that does not go far as a single parent.
Second, single-parent households have a lower standard of living, which is associated with lower school grades and test scores.
I grew up in a single-parent, working-class family that barely had the resources to send me to college.
Katie Porter claimed during the hearing that a single parent in a starting job at JPMorgan couldn't make ends meet.
"A lot of kids are on drugs, or from single-parent families, or who experience domestic violence," Mr. Ashfaq said.
If you're a single parent, working two jobs, it's critical that you get instant access to your hard-earned money.
She wanted a more flexible schedule to adjust suddenly becoming a single parent and spend more time with her kids.
These can include parents' criminal or drug history and if the child lives in a single parent or two parent home.
What's clear: He grew up in a single-parent household with a mother who worked several jobs to make ends meet.
Rodriguez, who has been with the EPA for 17 years, is a single parent supporting a daughter who is in college.
My great-great-grandmother, Freelove, named after her mother's master, was a single parent with twelve children in Lenoir, North Carolina.
During that time, she said he got his job at ACR, and he was a single parent to a young son.
But I was struck by how perfectly sweetness and lightning mirrored my own experience growing up in a single-parent household.
But unlike the border adjustment tax — a proposal that Republicans have discarded — the transactions must occur within a single parent company.
But for Ms. Johnson, being a single parent to Ms. Vanterpool and her 9-year-old sister has been a struggle.
That said, all but a small handful of single-parent families with non-exorbitant child care costs would be worse off.
Seventy-nine percent of Shawn Carter Scholars come from single-parent households, and 59 percent live below the national poverty line.
I became an independent escort in October 33, in a bid to ease the financial strain of being a single parent.
Rodney Alston Jr., 24, New York City, Center for Employment Opportunities I had a close-knit family, a single-parent family.
Lukas Holzhausen is both tender and weary as a single parent whose teenage daughter suspects he is not her biological father.
It means a chance for a single parent who works full-time to take night classes and work toward a degree.
I feel like a child of a single parent whose mother or father keeps bringing a new daddy or mommy home.
Those negative consequences include the explosion of divorce, paternal absence and the growing legions of children raised in single parent households.
She and Mr. Stone eventually divorced, and she raised their children as a single parent, continuing to perform all the while.
She and Mr. Stone eventually divorced, and she raised their children as a single parent, continuing to perform all the while.
I was a single parent, and I was an only child myself, so my kids didn't have aunties and uncles and cousins.
I had two small children at home and it was looking very likely that I was about to become a single parent.
Nalayeh had two sons from a previous marriage and spoke openly about the cultural stigma attached to being a divorced single parent.
Now, whether it includes a single parent or maybe an LGBT couple, people are redefining what it means to be a family.
In the letter, Kochhar talks about being brought up by a working mother and a single parent, after her father passed away.
It means that every working couple, or single parent, in work is given practically limitless access to childcare on a daily basis.
It would eliminate the rate structure for single-parent households, which now splits the difference between married taxpayers and singles without children.
Still, a growing share of children in OECD countries are being brought up in single-parent households, usually headed by the mother.
"I am a single parent, I have two children at home: a 16-year-old, and a 10-year-old," said Bryant.
After many long conversations with her, I decided to conceive with a willing gay friend and committed to being a single parent.
I'm a statistic that was supposed to go the other way, growing up in the inner city, having a single-parent household.
One employee, a single parent, told Price that he could go from working multiple jobs to spending more time with his child.
And Nigel's not this single-parent child who's so poor and trying to make it to the NBA and yadda yadda yadda.
The single parent who won't let the brother and sister adopt the homeless dog is here a mom rather than a dad.
For another, even after taking income into account, children from single-parent families do modestly worse than those from two-parent families.
I will dance, shake my ass, sweat out all the stress of being an entrepreneur, the stress of being a single parent.
After that, Dunn cared for his five other siblings, taking up the many responsibilities his mom had held as a single parent.
I am a middle-aged woman and a single parent, having raised my twin daughters on my own since they were 2.
At home, I am proud of being a single parent and bringing my 12-year-old son on this journey with me.
I was also a single parent and quite content with the life my then-7-year-old daughter and I had built.
Her mother, a single parent working a minimum-wage job to support her three daughters, could barely afford rent, let alone tampons.
If you're a single parent of two, for instance, you can claim the federal EITC if you make as much as $43,24.
Research shows that homelessness in LA has risen by a staggering 75% since 2012, with elderly people and single-parent households most affected.
Williams raised her daughter as a single parent and for years commuted to San Francisco, where she worked as a commercial glass estimator.
Could Rory be considering raising her child alone without help of the father, just like her mother raised her as a single parent?
Rudd's mother Margaret retrained as a nurse in the 1970s to earn enough income to raise her four children as a single parent.
For example, under the UBI they propose, a single parent of three children would be eligible for $12,000 a year in total assistance.
" Watts opened up about being a single parent in a 2017 interview with Vogue Australia, saying, "I mean, I'm single, I'm co-parenting.
A single parent with $50,000 in earnings, three children in school, and child care costs of less than $6,239.6 would pay $233,215 more.
My mom raised me on no money & mostly as a single parent yet, she still ate well & exercised and it shaped my life.
Cohen did not reveal the sex of the baby or whether or not he plans to raise the child as a single parent.
Because of local adoption laws, she adopted him as a single parent and Pitt adopted him as his son a year later. 5.
Rose Ibalu, a single-parent refugee from South Sudan, uses waste water to irrigate the kale and okra she plants in her garden.
A single parent with children, climbing from the federal poverty threshold of $11,770 a year, could pay an effective tax rate of 60%.
It is mad exhausting when you're a single parent mum with a kid and you're trying to make music or do anything creative.
If you're ready to jump into the dating world as a single parent, follow these four tips to have the best experience possible.
While many single-parent households are nurturing and loving environments, and provide children the tools to succeed in society, many more tragically fail.
Mnuchin rebutted a claim that parts of the middle class, especially single-parent households, may ultimately pay more under Trump's new tax plan.
And when families did split up, the state doubled down: 36 percent of French children living with a nonworking single parent are poor.
A single parent to 4-year-old Mio, her decision came while stacking tins of tomatoes and spaghetti in case of "no deal".
Her father died when she was three years old, leaving Misty's mother to raise her and her younger brother as a single parent.
They were similar in terms of the employment status of their parents and whether or not they lived in a single-parent household.
I just couldn't cope with the grief of losing my wife and parenting teenagers — I'm not cut out to be a single parent.
They took her in and provided the kind of upbringing her birth mother — a struggling single parent with no health care — could not.
She is a wheelchair-user and a single parent to three children still in a hotel that isn't adapted to people with disabilities.
I'm a single parent and a chef, and working as a baker at my restaurant has allowed me be there for my daughter.
But they commit more crime, are more likely to be obese, and are more likely to raise their children in single-parent households.
And she came to the job as a single parent, having chosen in her mid-40s to adopt her daughter, Claire, from Russia.
A single parent with $50,000 in earnings, three children in school, and child care costs of less than $6,000 would've paid $1,39.63 more.
Lion is based on the true story of Saroo Brierley (Patel), who grew up in a poor but loving single-parent home in India.
Finally, our love and hugs to every single parent who has ever spent time in the NICU and especially those we left behind today.
And Joe is making sure their New Jersey mansion will be managed as easily as possible when his wife essentially becomes a single parent.
We are all used to having only one Sun, but single parent stars are not the only type of solar hosts in the universe.
They find that the impact of growing up in a single-parent home or one with less-educated parents on upward mobility is muted.
But the program is a lifeline for single-parent households and for those living below the poverty line (15.9% of the state in 2014).
Raised by a single parent with three older sisters, "paying for all four of us was never an option," she told CNN affiliate KCCI.
I mean, almost all single-parent families are women-headed families, and they're more likely to therefore be responsible for children than men are.
In July 2005, Jolie Pitt finalized the adoption of her second child, Zahara, from Ethiopia – as a single parent, it was revealed to PEOPLE.
The group maintained that AIDS was "God's judgment" against homosexuals, spread in an America weakened by single-parent households and loss of family values.
Kids born into single-parent, broken or dysfunctional, abusive families are the farm system for major league crime, gangs and terror later in life.
Maybe it's just the effect of being a single parent to a two-year-old: I can't afford to get wrapped up in stuff.
That seemed like an enormous amount to the then-17-year-old kid who grew up in a single-parent home in Woodside, Queens.
To see how the system would help low-income families, imagine a single parent is making $14,143 a year at a minimum-wage job.
Growing up in a small village just north of Frankfurt, Mr. Wodni said that his mother, a single parent, used to despair of him.
My mom is the single matriarch of three girls — and just one of the nearly 12 million single-parent households in the United States.
As a single parent who simply could not die, I was doing whatever I could to distract myself from the risks that lay ahead.
But sometimes a mother can't protect her children, as the single parent Debra Gwartney discovered when her four daughters were targeted by a pedophile.
Suddenly a single parent, she taught fitness classes, gave piano lessons, and wrote on the side, but she was struggling to make ends meet.
But if you're a single parent, you can file as head of household, which has a bigger standard deduction of $18,350 for 2019 taxes.
"It was a little frustrating as a kid," said Mr. Latsko, whose father, James Latsko, raised him for many years as a single parent.
"A lot of people are coming from single-parent households, families that can't afford music lessons or instruments," says Tobi Oke, music writer at Complex.
But fans aren't here for the mommy-shaming, and Bachelor Nation alum Evan Bass, who is also a single parent, is totally in Amanda's corner.
I was raised by a single parent myself, but I could never admit to following my mother's orders whenever she just told me to read.
" Brown added, "I was a single parent for a long time with Phoenix, so I kind of learned that way, and moms always know best.
"When you're a single parent, and that element of provider and protection is missing, it's scary," she said of raising Matilda after the actor's death.
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The actress told Porter that while she never expected to be a single parent at her age, she's not planning on getting married anytime soon.
"I grew up in a single parent home — my father passed away when I was 3 — and in a not-so-nice community," she says.
"When you're a single parent, and that element of provider and protection is missing, it's scary," Williams said of raising their daughter after Ledger's death.
"I knew that I would have to have my mom help me if I was going to do this as a single parent," says Theron.
It's rare for someone like me — coming from a single-parent household with no political connections — to be able to land such a coveted position.
It had turned out O.K. Ms. Stipkovits was then working as a medical receptionist and raising a daughter, Maleena, as a single parent in McKeesport.
Instead, high rates of divorce and a greater proportion of single-parent homes were most closely linked to counties with higher rates of drug deaths.
Whereas a single parent with no earnings would get $0 from the EITC under current law, the Cost of Living Refund would give her $4,000.
" Of her own life as a single parent, Williams says, "Sometimes it can feel alienating; at school functions, there's only two of us single mothers.
Today, almost 30 percent of families with children are headed by a single parent, and 84 percent of those are led by a single mother.
We know it's not easy being a single parent, but for all the men out there being superman for their kids, Obamacare is your cape.
" People do the condescending head to the side as they avoid looking directly at you and ask, "So… what's it like being a single parent?
Butler, who is a single parent, knew his longtime friend would help, but he never imagined the number of first responders who would show up.
The adversity score has 15 determining factors, including crime rate in the student's neighborhood and if the student was raised in a single-parent household.
Rebecca, 33, grew up in a single-parent household and graduated from college with a music degree in 2008, at the pit of the recession.
For 38 years he had been practicing law and carrying out (as I had) the responsibilities of a single parent of three children, now grown.
The academy draws its players from the local area, many of whom come from single parent or HIV positive families that often live in poverty.
She told him about why she left El Salvador, that she was a single parent, and began to cry when she got to the kidnapping.
But the Trump administration erased such stipulations soon after Trump took office, allowing a single parent, or both parents in a family, to be deported.
But you have to find balance with that, too, because you have to be very cautious about how you spend money as a single parent.
A single parent with two school-age children, for example would need to make nearly $69,427 a year, according to City Harvest's Self-Sufficiency calculator.
As an adult with a child at home and he's a single parent, if he is thrown in jail no one is with his child.
Making sure you have adequate life insurance, having a will and trusts, and naming guardians for your children are critical when you are a single parent.
Concerned about the risk of single parent families and mixed-race children, she advised Russians to straight up not have sex with foreigners, per The Independent.
"When you decide to take on this big adventure of being a single parent, you don't know what it's going to be like," she told PEOPLE.
Over the phone, she told us how she started selling panties: She was a single parent and educator in California, which didn't quite pay the bills.
Johnson turned to organized sports to be less of a burden on his mother, a single parent overwhelmed at times by the responsibilities she was shouldering.
Taran Killam may play a single parent on-screen, but he revealed his latest role has given him a whole new appreciation for wife Cobie Smulders.
My mom became a single parent eight years ago, and if she couldn't get a babysitter for us three kids, we'd go and watch the games.
The nation of 30 million people has one of Latin America's highest rates of teenage pregnancies and large numbers of single-parent households, U.N. data shows.
Japanese children living with only one parent nonetheless perform significantly worse in school tests, just as children from single-parent families do in Europe and America.
But Burman added that because of some specific changes in the Trump tax plan, some middle class taxpayers, particularly single-parent families, would see tax increases.
Over the course of two years, Meagan Hunter worked multiple jobs at a Chili's in Phoenix, Arizona, while raising her young son as a single parent.
Pishevar allegedly rejected that characterization of their dynamic, saying he felt the two shared a non-professional bond because they had both been single-parent entrepreneurs.
THE SINGLE PARENT LIVING BESIDE A BROTHEL: VANESSA RODELVanessa Mae Rodel is from the Philippines and has worked as a maid in Hong Kong for while.
In fact, while families bore the brunt of the strike-related disruptions, just 22019 percent of the stories featured even a single parent or student quote.
Similarly, a single parent with one child with annual income of $41,200063 will see a tax cut of $1,304, a 73 percent reduction in federal taxes.
I could use more of that, because it compromises one's creativity a bit to become a single parent and to endure the rigors of the road.
Under current law, a single parent with two children can claim a standard deduction of $2000,350, plus personal exemptions of $4,050 for herself and each child.
Most of my students need to work after school while others take care of siblings because their single-parent mother is working two jobs to survive.
"My first wife was staying in California, leaving me a single parent in Jersey… and my father was dying of prostate cancer," he tells me today.
The program provides apartments and support to previously homeless single-parent families, generally for two to five years, rather than the typical six-month shelter stints.
To find the parents face-to-face, Gelernt said, some of the areas are so remote it can take days just to reach a single parent.
She allegedly told authorities that the baby's mother was an unmarried single parent, but gave no information on whether the child had been given or sold.
If you are a single parent and absolutely must prepare food, really scrub your hands when you wash — you want "friction and suds," Dr. Shust said.
The Neediest Cases Fund Frances Ramirez was juggling three jobs with her responsibilities as a single parent when she got help paying for her children's lessons.
He's a single parent and was becoming active in a new Bright Beginnings program that brings dads together every Monday to discuss the challenges of fatherhood.
A U.S. Census Bureau study found that the percentage of children living in single-parent households increased from 12 percent in 1960 to 31 percent in 2016.
Growing up with a single parent gave Jenna Dewan Tatum a unique appreciation for her mother Nancy Smith's sacrifices and successes – as well as a kindhearted nature.
Ms. Baker is a single parent who scolds her children, Ricky (who has no gang affiliation) and Darrin "Doughboy" Baker (who is a member of the Crips).
That work paid off, and he was accepted at Girard College, a full-scholarship boarding high school for students from single-parent families with limited financial resources.
"Angelina Maria Silva Englisbee was a hard working self-sufficient single parent who raised her children after the passing of her husband," they said in the suit.
All she heard as a newly single mother was that no one, especially men who didn't have their own kids, would want to date a single parent.
They grew up very poor in single parent homes and foster care [and suffered from] early trauma and abuse, lack of opportunity, and violence in the neighborhood.
Roughly 41 percent of kids lived in single-parent households, another 41 percent lived with both parents and about 19 percent lived with three or more adults.
But families like mine are even rarer in Japan, where just 6.67 percent of households are run by a single parent, according to the 2015 Japanese census.
Economists also connect unemployment and low wages with a breakdown of families, including a rise in children born to unmarried mothers and living in single-parent households.
Williams, a single parent, "would ask me what I liked about it and evaluate what it was about the movie that spoke to me," said the director.
With many of the artists coming from single parent families, much of the content is about experiencing domestic instability, death of loved ones, or going to prison.
In these ways, Better Things is the most realistic show we have about the life of a financially secure, confident, talented woman who is a single parent.
Being a single parent in real life — Matilda's father, the late actor Heath Ledger, died in 2008 — helped the former Dawson's Creek star tap into her character.
In order to be covered, a single parent has to earn less than $227 a month, or less than $5,85033 a year for a family of 4.
As a single parent, it's likely your schedule is already packed with work, taking your kids to school and after-school activities, making meals, and much more.
The child poverty rate for working single-parent households in Japan is the highest among wealthy nations, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
My mom, who was a single parent and raised my older brother and I while two full-time jobs, did everything she could to save a penny.
"I would be most worried about single-parent families and also very large families," said Elaine Maag, senior research associate at the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center.
When I asked him how a single parent who works two jobs might fit home-cooked meals into their schedule, he returned to the question of priorities.
Being a single parent is lonely, of course, but even when you're married, it can be very lonely at home when your husband's at work all day.
I missed my mom, who as a single parent and often self-employed writer/editor always had a kind of doggedness and resourcefulness in dealing with bureaucracy.
You know, I grew up with a mother who raised her brother Joaquin and me as a single parent, and I know what it's like to struggle.
A single parent with one child, for example, can take $18,350 under the current tax code, but just $12,000 as a single filer under Mr. Trump's plan.
Ms. Pletnyova, a member of the Communist Party, framed her advice as a way to protect the family, saying that such liaisons often produce single-parent homes.
If there were a causal link between single parenthood and poverty, he said, then he should never be able to find a successful single parent at all.
When his wife, Joanna (Streep) leaves them both in order to care for her own mental state, he's suddenly thrust into the role of a single parent.
Durant told the audience that when she found herself a single parent to two children at 21, she followed the financial principles she had been raised on.
She encountered no personal obstacle that wasn't magnified in some way by being a single parent, no problem of parenthood that wasn't intensified by her financial predicament.
Among children raised in single-parent households, however, boys performed significantly less well than their sisters in school, and their employment rate as young adults was lower.
Second, male children suffer more from restricted or nonexistent parental leave policies and contemporary child care arrangements, as well as from growing up in single-parent households.
It paints a pretty bleak picture of searching for love (or even a casual hookup) as a single parent, and can easily scare someone off of dating altogether.
Officials said that in cases where both detainees had minor children, one would be released, and a single parent would also be released, according to the Clarion-Ledger.
The clearest winners from the proposed changes to the child tax credit are single-parent families making more than $22017,000 or two-parent families making more than $110,000.
Family and the Importance of Education: Ysiad's mother immigrated as a teenager from the Dominican Republic, raised him as a single parent and his first language was Spanish.
Moore, who grew up in a single-parent household that struggled financially, was arrested when he was just 11-years-old, but was never charged with a crime.
Instead, I was hung in paralysis over what my own life would be like if my wife passed away, and how I might fail as a single parent.
His story is one familiar to scores of Black men across the country: no father figure in his life; raised by his mother in a single-parent household.
This overwhelmed man is now a single parent to two young boys (the appealingly understated David Evans and Leo Hart, who alternate with Taighen O'Callaghan and Adam Pemberton).
Although he tries not to "give into" toxic masculinity, being the oldest son in a single parent household swayed him away from taking care of his mental health.
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She had worked her whole life as a cook, and raised her children in a single-parent household, just as her own mother had done in Montgomery, Ala.
Even among the fit, drug-free, educated masses, many will still be too short, too tall, have flat feet or be the single parent of a minor child.
"My mother worked hard for us, but she was in a moment of survival," says Durant, who was one of three children raised in a single-parent household.
Patti Mayonnaise wasn't just the girl he was crushing on — she was a tomboy, the daughter of a single parent, and living with a father who had a disability.
I was a single parent, living on the edge of a cliff by the ocean in a very old house, alone with my kids for a couple of years.
She never finished elementary school, so she worked as a maid, a cook and a babysitter for her whole life and she raised my mom as a single parent.
In Japan, four-fifths of single-parent households emerge when couples divorce—a much higher share than in the West, where people usually slip into single parenthood without marrying.
The white-bearded single parent is some manner of old timey pharmacist — as with all the stories in Photographs, The Alchemist's setting is more evocative than it is specific.
Factors such as household income and whether the mother or father was a single parent did not appear to have an impact on the results, according to the study.
We see an urgent need to reboot the policy conversation about poverty, especially the poverty of single-parent families expected to make ends meet on low-income women's wages.
Families, especially those with multiple children and single-parent households, will keenly feel the loss of these exemptions, even though these tax breaks are supposed to return in 2150.
And because there were more and more single-parent homes, and more and more homeless children roaming the streets, the image of the orphan began to dominate popular culture.
He has you covered if you're looking for a hot date with someone in a wheelchair, with someone who's overweight, with a single parent, or with an elderly person.
He pointed out that a household with two adults and no children could receive up to $2,400, while a single parent with two children would, at most, get $2,200.
But poor kids of all races are burdened relative to rich kids; those from single-parent families are similarly burdened, as are those who are physically or mentally abused.
Crossword puzzles made their way into my life when I was a single parent of a rambunctious little boy, commuting to a full-time job in New York City.
His German-born father and American mother divorced when he was young, and his mother raised her own five children and three of her sister's as a single parent.
Ms. Vaile, 80, was a single parent, an interior designer, an avid traveler and, in her 30s, an activist for assisted death with the lobbying group Dying With Dignity.
According to his Global Teacher Prize profile, 95 percent of Tabichi's students at Keriko come from poor families, and nearly a third are orphans or have a single parent.
Nearly a quarter of American children are living with a single parent, usually their mother and these families are twice as likely to be poor as the average American.
It affects low-income, single-parent, and black and Hispanic households the most, but it cuts across many demographic lines and affects 11 percent of American households over all.
For a single parent with modest income raising a child or children, the earned income tax credit could entitle the taxpayer to a refund when no tax is owed.
The documents offer suggestions for finding potential customers, highlighting that "a single parent of three children that may need money for food" could be a good target for enrollment.
According to a recent Census survey, about half of all black children in the US lived in single-parent households where their primary caregiver had full or partial custody.
Once a struggling single parent, Jamari says the creatures came to her rescue, earning her enough money to put her five children through school and build a new house.
Miranda Santos, a 24-year-old single parent, sought help there last year after failing a nursing class and having to repeat it during a semester-long weekend program.
Mr. Leary accused Mr. Alpert of trying to seduce his 15-year-old son, Jack, whom Mr. Alpert often took care of while Mr. Leary, a single parent, traveled.
By 2015, when a chance encounter led him to Dr. Luo, he'd made the decision to become a single parent if he hadn't found someone within a few years.
Further, she never received directives to change her behavior … The fact is that she was placed on leave after years of exemplary work based on a single parent complaint.
A former bouncer and bodyguard, Charland says he became invested in improving the lives of children when he became a single parent to his daughter when she was just 9.
When I told them about my plan, they were concerned about me adopting as a single parent for many reasons – but they eventually managed to wrap their heads around it.
Birkhead added that he would "take all the help" he can get when it comes to raising the 10-year-old – which he's done, so far, as a single parent.
But if both parents die and a minor child is named as a contingent beneficiary, or if a single parent names a child as a beneficiary, matters can get complicated.
"The thing is – and I hate to play the single mum card – I'm a single parent, I work two jobs, which I'm proud of and I've always worked," she said.
Going back to college as a single parent in my late 30s after nearly two decades away wasn't always easy, especially as a nontraditional student (College Algebra almost killed me!).
Chief Executive Erik Engstrom said a single parent company was a natural step following the renaming of the group from Reed Elsevier and creating a single entity three years ago.
Thanks to the Great Recession, nontraditional students—those who are over 25, fully independent, a single parent, enrolled part-time, or without a high school diploma—now outnumber traditional students.
"A single parent would have to work at least 32 hours a week at the federal minimum wage of $20113 to clear the poverty line with Stern's UBI," Hemel writes.
In the 1960s, the government touted marriage as a saving grace for impoverished black communities: the 1965 Moynihan report insisted on the link between economic precarity and single-parent homes.
Harvard's president, Drew Gilpin Faust, personally addressed them, as did four undergraduates from poor communities and ­single-parent homes, and several professors delivered middle-school versions of their regular lectures.
One of us learned this lesson from personal experience — having grown up poor in the projects in Richmond, Va., during segregation — one of six children in a single-parent household.
Editorial Of the 240 million children under 28 in the United States today, some 29.5 million need day care, because both parents work or a single parent is the breadwinner.
The film touches on a lot of hot-button matters, including the 2016 election; racial profiling; and the difficulties of being a single parent and of earning a living wage.
It was my job, after all, as a single parent, as the "grown-up" (which will forever have air quotes), to sweep up the feathers, to deal with the aftermath.
For someone on social assistance or a single parent who is precariously employed and doesn't enjoy sick days or disposable income, following the government's recommendations might be impossible, Poland said.
Single-parent homes or parental roles that transcend the gender binary, as well as nomadic families, are a few examples of the way this generation finds its way through life.
I empathize with the working parent who is also a single parent, showing up every day for this monumental job of raising small humans with just one set of hands.
" —Tracy Carlinsky, founder of Brooklyn Bodyburn "I am so busy and pulled in so many directions -- single parent to twin girls, business owner -- I don't take enough time to decompress.
After Tyler returned home, he seemed overwhelmed by being a single parent to their 3-year-old daughter and also struggled to keep up with work at their company, Tierra Reign.
Dead To Me takes a look at life after loss and what it means to be a newly single parent, with a top-notch cast including Christina Applegate and Linda Cardellini.
Sheryl Sandberg later acknowledged some of Lean In's shortcomings — that it failed to address the realities of single-parent households and, as others charged, the unique challenges of women of color.
In video footage that went viral this fall, the hip-hop mogul Jay-Z said that growing up in a Black single-parent household contributed directly to anti-Black police brutality.
Fans already know that Raven will be a divorced single mom in the new series, and will be living with her longtime BFF Chelsea (Anneliese van der Pol), another single parent.
Mr. Messer, the father of two teenage daughters, said he was raised by a single parent and felt it important to be closer to his children, and said voters would understand.
My mom was able to become the first one to graduate from high school and then go off to college, and she raised my brother and me as a single parent.
"Removing challenged works before reviewing them privileges the complaint of a single parent over the professional expertise of teachers and librarians who have selected the work," the group wrote on Reddit.
The thought of now creating a new debt in the tens of thousands of dollars to get pregnant — plus the cost of raising a child as a single parent — was overwhelming.
It's not easy being a single parent, but we love that Kittrell went above and beyond to make sure that her son wouldn't miss out — and we're not the only ones.
Given that 40% of households in Forsyth County, North Carolina, are run by a single parent, it's an important message to send that women "provide" just as much as men do.
According to the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States, young people who received the least sex education tended to be low-income black youths from single parent homes.
When paid in full, child support increases incomes for single-parent families on food stamps by nearly $5,700 on average — enough to effectively double the income of those families in poverty.
Over time, Unicode responded to those requests, adding versions of same-sex couples, single-parent families, old people, young people, gender-neutral people, people of color, even the long-awaited redhead.
Studies in Britain suggest that children in single-parent homes suffer because they are poor, or because of the shortcomings of their parents — not because their parents do not live together.
Like them, Koelzer, who is African-American, played much of her youth in secondhand equipment and was raised by a single parent who struggled to accommodate the costly expenses of hockey.
But his mother's income in his single-parent household was low enough that he qualified for reduced-price lunches — a fact he tried to hide from his peers by not eating.
While my time as a single parent was not easy, we got by, and today my life is nothing like the one predicted by that chorus of pessimism 29 years ago.
Just think about the last time you heard someone use the term "broken home" or "single-parent household" to explain the misbehavior or misfortune of a person in your social circle.
Tara tries to make sure they have clothes, food and field trips, which is no easy task when you are a single parent earning less than half the county's median income.
Many of her students came from single-parent households — some from teenage mothers, at least one from foster care — and nearly all of them qualified for state-funded child care vouchers.
If you recently became a single parent because of divorce or death of a spouse or partner, you may feel like your whole life is spiraling out of control, including your finances.
Today, with people marrying later and later (or not at all), only 1.53% are living with their partners; another 21.5% live alone, are a single parent, or have one or more roommates.
A single parent with one child can claim benefits if they earn less than $40,320, while a couple with one child can claim benefits if they earn less than a combined $46,010.
If the government's objective was to change the landscape of child support — a critical policy question considering there are 25 million children living with a single parent — this will not be enough.
"On the hard days, it's stressful and there is too much going on as a single parent — and it can be hard to carve out a minute for yourself," the actress continued.
One single parent in CBP custody, identified as Mayra, said her 9-year-old son continues to be anxious after seeing parents separated from their children at a facility in Nogales, Arizona.
Growing up poor in a single parent home in San Pedro, California, the author of Ballerina Body says she "never looked at food as nutrition" until she discovered ballet at age 13.
She added that it's important for your kids to see the whole dating process unfold because "it gives them guidance on what to expect going forward" from you as a single parent.
A fact sheet from the senators' offices said that a single parent with income equal to the federal poverty level would receive a benefit equal to about 74 percent of their wages.
"The thing is — and I hate to play the single mum card — I'm a single parent, I work two jobs, which I'm proud of and I've always worked," Anvil told the BBC.
The club's founder, Mr. Enbo, has trained hundreds of young fighters free of charge, like Banma Duoji, an 18-year-old who grew up poor in a single-parent home in Tibet.
But if you're a single parent with a full-time job, or the first person in your family to go to college, and are perhaps attending part-time, it's a different story.
Disney Cruise Line is among the several travel companies that increasingly cater to single parent families by grouping them with others who have a similar family setup and offering them price breaks.
A single parent working unpredictable shifts and saving for a child's college education will have different needs than a retired couple trying to stretch their savings while preparing for surprise medical expenses.
In fact, some conservatives complain that welfare reform hasn't made poor single-parent families less dependent on government; it just transferred their dependence to other programs that lack TANF's strong work requirements.
"I grew up in a pretty rough neighborhood, my father was a single parent and worked really hard to just really grind and put food on the table for us," Marquez says.
IT'S ALL ABOUT WHO HAS POWER Leviticus, a 220-year-old who goes by Levi, was born and grew up in a single-parent household on the west side of Buffalo, New York.
She started taking public transit across town by herself in Albuquerque, New Mexico, when she was 7, while her mom, a single parent, was working or going to school to get her degree.
Last year, Microsoft added 52,000 family emoji to its Windows 10 update with different combinations that included interracial families and single parent families, the first time an operating system had ever done so.
Lee, a single parent who served in the Army for 10 years, is determined to stay in the public service despite worrying that there might be more extended shutdowns under the Trump administration.
"As a now single parent of two, Dustin will need all the support he can get from friends and family to help him get ahead emotionally, as well as financially," the GoFundMe said.
Not only did Messer have to deal with the struggles of being a single parent, but she also had to deal with being berated by fans for her parenting skills on multiple occasions.
The credit, which would be decreased and reformatted under the proposed House bill, currently applies to single parent households making up to $80,000 per year, or for married couples making up to $160,000.
Patton Oswalt penned an emotional and inspiring essay for GQ on Friday about his first year as a single parent since his wife, Michelle McNamara, died in April at the age of 46.
A lot of the new icons give you the option of male or female versions of existing emoji, but there are also additions such as a rainbow flag and a single-parent family.
Most recently, the 2016 update saw Apple equalizing its gender representation, adding gender options for single-parent families and new female athletes and professionals — leveling out the largely male representation among sports emojis.
But the show still mirrors a lot of their earlier collaboration, on "Louie," another gritty, quasi-surreal, occasionally self-righteous story about an angry divorced artist who is also a devoted single parent.
One Virginia man who grew up in the foster care system is now living his dream of being a dad after adopting three boys — and he's raising them all as a single parent.
"I guarantee you somewhere today, a child was physically harmed or ingested poison because they were home alone because a single parent didn't have any money to take care of them," he continued.
There's some psychological evidence suggesting that having a working mother is correlated with higher academic achievement and lower anxiety/stress in children, particularly for low-income children and children in single-parent households.
I don't really care about the individual moments, I just need to know the typecasting—who has lost a family member, who is a single parent, who has been left at the altar.
For example, the Economic Policy Institute's Family Budget Calculator finds that in the Detroit metro area, a single parent with two kids needs $280,21 to pay for the above list of basic needs.
The idea is that such a marriage will avert an abortion, or at least increase the prospect that the child is raised by a married couple rather than by a struggling single parent.
Miles Sykes, 32, a single parent who earns around $2,103 a month as a line cook at BJ's Restaurant and Brewhouse in Sacramento is extremely worried about how he'll afford rent this month.
" It noted "the single-parent, antisocial habits, prevalent among some working-class whites; the anti-'acting white' rap culture of inner-city blacks; the anti-assimilation ideas gaining ground among some Hispanic immigrants.
At forty-five, abandoned by his wife, Moose is a sweetly conscientious single parent, worried that he'll never be able to persuade his daughter, now in her gap year, to apply to university.
Neither socioeconomic or household factors previously associated with mental health issues in adolescents, like income and single-parent families, could account for the spike, nor did changes in the rate of substance abuse.
As a single parent, registered nurse, ordained pastor, activist, and community organizer, there is not a day that goes by when I don't feel the impact of a government that doesn't work for us.
The reasons for this were not entirely positive: While economic prosperity and rising immigration played a role, so did an unusually high rate of unintended and single-parent pregnancies relative to other rich countries.
The song, which dons a gloomy piano line similar to The Addams Family theme song, is a laundry list of the constants of her neighborhood: boosters, X and O chains, and single-parent homes.
Though Robinson had health insurance for most of her children's lives, her insurance did not cover all of the expenses that come with being a single parent trying to care for children with asthma.
While Unicode has made strides towards introducing emoji that are more representative of the entire population — with icons showing same-sex couples and single parent families — any symbolization of interracial partnerships is still absent.
Martinez Valentín has no regrets about keeping her unplanned pregnancy at 22, but the ostracization she faced as a young single parent made her realize that women's reproductive choices are all too often stigmatized.
When his mother learned there was an opening in the eleventh-grade class at Girard College, a Philadelphia boarding school for gifted students from single-parent households in need, she encouraged him to apply.
"To be able to tell you, absolutely, there is no single parent, with no one to take care of [a child], I don't think I can say that," Jerome Miles told The Washington Post.
Their needs may amount to about $210,21, but to a single parent who has five other kids, that's a lot, and the colleges are not as helpful as I would like them to be.
More than half of children in Washington are growing up in single-parent households, according to census data, and almost a quarter of children in the United States are being raised by single mothers.
Ms. McNally and her sons ending up taking a cruise to the Caribbean with Disney Cruise Line because she had heard that the line went out of its way to accommodate single parent families.
" She went on to tell Wynn that she was a single parent with a young son and the tips policy would mean she would lose $20093,000 to $20,000 a year, a "huge financial burden.
Katie Porter, a California Democrat, asking him to respond to her claim that a single parent in a starting job at JPMorgan couldn't make ends meet on a minimum wage salary of around $16.
Readers could not point to a single cause, but said a combination of generational poverty, single-parent households, a lack of early literacy opportunities outside the home and poor attendance were among the factors.
"I heard from somebody who was a single parent," he told ABC, "that they were not necessarily going to need to work two jobs anymore and they were going to be a better parent."
Whenever she is inundated by exhaustion, anxiety and discomfort, it can be difficult to know if it is her chronic illness or the stress of being a single parent that has left her depleted.
Clinical data doesn't reveal who's planning a wedding or juggling three first dates on Bumble or recovering from breast cancer or grieving a parent or mulling over the idea of becoming a single parent.
Now, as the kids grieve the loss of their mother and Jacob the death of his wife and "best friend," the widower says he's coming to terms with the idea of being a single parent.
An analysis by NYU Law's Lily Batchelder shows that such plans would actually end up raising taxes for about 20 percent of households with minor children, including more than half of all single-parent households.
Another interesting insight here is that single-parent households spend more money on food (both at restaurants and at home) than any other group, with 13.4 percent of their income going towards feeding their family.
"I can't think of a single parent who thinks it is a good idea for their children to be snorting over-the-counter stimulants up their noses," Schumer, D-New York, said in a statement.
The much more realistic image of a working single parent, doing all he or she can to support hungry children, is often lost in a racialized country that consistently devalues skin that is not white.
I have seen friends, some working multiple jobs, others in single-parent households, already struggling to feed and clothe and educate their children, almost break down under the stress and anxiety of another dire worry.
It involves not only legal fees but also the costs of moving, establishing at least one new household, and possibly assuming the role of a single parent (which is costly in both time and money).
And Britain-based Virgin Holidays started a new single parent trip category last October that includes air-inclusive trips to 10 Caribbean resorts where parents don't pay a single supplement and children get a discount.
Both immigrants who integrated into "Hispanic"-ness and those who integrated into blackness had much, much higher rates of single-parent households than their European and Asian counterparts — and than their parents' and grandparents' generations.
"When I used to get paid, I would take him to the bank with me," said Blanca, of Cruz's early years, when the family lived in Paterson, N.J. She raised him as a single parent.
Conservatives explain poverty by pointing to "individual factors," like bad decisions or the rise of single-parent families; liberals refer to "structural causes," like the decline of manufacturing or the historical legacies of racial discrimination.
In the times of my coming up, I didn&apost have outlets like this or people who really cared about the issues I went through as a child growing up in a single parent home.
While playing Captain Spirit, I was reminded of my own fears about what might happen if my wife suddenly disappeared and I became a single parent: Charles, as it turns out, isn't up for the moment.
Though she grew up in a single-parent home which focused on the importance of higher education and traditional career path, Kemp-Gerstel followed her passion of crafting with the support of her husband and son.
Tax experts are concerned that with the loss of personal and dependent exemptions in both the House and Senate tax proposals, and the expiration of child tax credits in Senate bill, single-parent households may lose.
For instance, black babies are less likely to be breast-fed than white babies, are more likely to grow up with a single parent and may be spoken to or read to less by their parents.
In Los Angeles, Andy Behrman, a single parent of two girls, 8 and 10, said that his daughters continually accused Mr. Trump of violating "the double v's," a reference to their school's "virtues and values" program.
Next up, on the trials and tribulations of Ross trying to be a better single parent than his ex-wife Carol, Ross suits up as "Santa's representative for all the Southern states," or the Holiday Armadillo.
Several politicians who are also mothers said that becoming a single parent may refocus some of Ms. Bowser's policy efforts, whether that be improving Washington's public schools or creating additional programs to engage youths after school.
Amanda Norcross, the features editor of the online travel magazine Family Vacation Critic, said that the travel industry is paying more attention to single parent family vacations because the number of solo parent households has increased.
"You have whatever challenges that come along with being a single parent per se, and you have the challenges and rewards of raising a child who almost certainly has special needs at some level," he said.
Her mother, who will later incarnate the Sugar Plum Fairy role in the different guise of a golden sculpture that presides over the world's fair, is a single parent, raising her and her brother, Franz, alone.
The space connects to the house through a small mudroom that opens into a hall not far from my kids' bedrooms so I can work into the night while they sleep; ideal for a single parent.
Before you can entertain whether you'll someday have a biological child; adopt; become a single parent, part-time parent, co-parent, or step-parent, you need to know if you want to become a parent at all.
"There is no evidence of a negative impact of living in a single parent household on children's wellbeing, with regard to self-reported life satisfaction, quality of peer relationships, or positivity about family life," the report states.
Many of the factors that promote opportunity for children from a neighborhood are also associated with higher incomes amongst their parents: employment rates and numbers of college graduates, teen birth rates and numbers of single parent households.
He has an existential crisis, they steal baby stuff from Meredith's house, and I'd like to know how he's going to handle the baby situation during and after his next 36-hour shift as a single parent.
Feinstein's mother, who raised Feinstein and her two siblings as a single parent, had "pretty good insurance through her work," Feinstein said, but the family still had to undergo an extensive process to get the procedure approved.
My mom was suddenly a single parent with two small kids and a part-time receptionist salary — it was challenging enough for her to live on it, she said, not to mention supporting two children, as well.
Imagine you're an illiterate single parent in an impoverished Central American city that is rife with violence (the situation is different for Mexicans, despite northern stereotypes, who have better access to the middle class and to education).
Episode: "Keen on Keane" Since Professor Utonium—the scientist who created the Powerpuff Girls out of sugar, spice, everything nice, and Chemical X—came up with that mixture all on his own, he's the girls' single parent.
A native New Yorker, global citizen and polyglot, having lived or traveled in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East, in addition to 45 of the 50 states, Ruthy is a single parent with two grown daughters.
This is how a single parent not working would find herself on the very lefthand edge of the chart — that is, with zero earnings and thus $0 in EITC benefits, no matter how many children she has.
"I am a single parent and things are not easy for me economically," she told Reuters at a polling station in Waterloo, a village nestled in palm trees and forest on the outskirts of the capital Freetown.
While there is an official from the city's Education Department available to meet with families during the intake process, not a single parent interviewed said they had spoken with anyone at the office about a child's education.
"When we're busy and we're working a couple of jobs or are overwhelmed or are a single parent, the television is so effective at holding our child's attention and making it easier on our household," Swanson said.
I was able to live a life I never would have had thanks to the most incredible, strong and resilient single mom that pushed and persevered in a time when a single parent adopting was nearly impossible.
As a single woman in her time, her right to have a child has been taken away from her twice: first by legislation that has made IVF illegal, and then by legislation that has outlawed single-parent adoption.
When she came from Peru about 20 years ago, she worked three jobs to be able to afford a one-bedroom apartment for herself and her six-year-old daughter (at the time, she was a single parent).
A single parent with three children will be eligible for much more assistance than, say, a single worker without kids, or a couple with two employed parents and one child, even if each adult earns the same amount.
" Raised by a single parent from a blue-collar background, this "young, queer, black girl" attends high school in a wealthy suburb of Washington, D.C. She is, as she puts it, "a square peg in a round hole.
For example, single-parent families can choose to dine with others like them and may also be paired for shore excursions, so children have a chance to make new friends, and parents have other adults to interact with.
"Some families had questions, but not a single parent I encountered thought any of this was a bad idea," said Drew Miller, the health teacher at Manhattan's Bard High School Early College who participated in the pilot program.
With many more women in the workforce and many more children being raised in single-parent homes, fewer new parents can afford to lose their salary in the early months, or cover the costs of early daycare. Sens.
Bevin said on Friday that single-parent households in the state had been forced to leave children at home and in peril of not just sexual assault, but of ingesting poison or being offered drugs for the first time.
It's been a long road to his current position as the general manager at Caña Rum Bar, and the most important guidance along the way has been his trust in his father, a single parent who immigrated from Oaxaca.
A family of four earning the median annual income $6900,000 per year will see a 58 percent reduction in federal taxes, while a single parent with one child earning $41,000 will see a 73 percent reduction in federal taxes.
At the practices offering smokers help to quit, 44% of parents who smoke got treatment at the same visit when they were screened, compared with only a single parent at the control group of practices sticking with usual care.
His mother is a single parent who tries to provide for her family by selling pancakes, but when money is too tight, Abdi, his mother and two siblings move into the home of relatives who live far from school.
According to Forness, being able to enjoy sex with other people is one of the benefits of being a single parent and as long as you're respectful of your kids' privacy, you can swing play time with your dates.
"I told my son, 'Christmas is going to be kind of scarce, because mommy's going to lose her job soon,'" said Kimberly Allen, a steelworker and single parent who has worked at the plant for more than 22 years.
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But he also felt that many populations of fathers were understudied: married and unmarried dads, single-parent fathers and gay fathers, adolescent dads, and even incarcerated fathers, who account for roughly 750,000 of the 72 million fathers in America.
"I told my son, 'Christmas is going to be kind of scarce, because Mommy's going to lose her job soon,'" said Kimberly Allen, a steelworker and single parent who has worked at the plant for more than 22 years.
The movie garnered raves at its Sundance debut earlier this year for its sensitive portrayal of a widower (played by Menashe Lustig) struggling to retain custody of his son in a community where single-parent homes are unheard of.
" FROM PEN: Former Bachelorette Ashley Rosenbaum Opens Up About Her Sibling Rivalry Fears Ronaldo said he'll share the woman's identity with Cristiano Jr. when he feels the time is right, but said that being a single parent "is not a problem.
While many people reminded her that teen pregnancy is closely linked to single parenthood, and the growth in single-parent families remains the most important reason for increased poverty among children, she was determined to be more than a statistic.
The mom, who told BuzzFeed News last month that she is a single parent and a real estate agent in Vancouver, has since reportedly resigned from her job after her boss's car was used without permission to film Lil Tay.
"Every single parent can think of a time when something scary (or) unfortunate happened to their child," said Nikki Little, a mother of 3-year-old twin boys and an account director in social media for a public relations firm.
Life after divorce has left me to single parent our son (my ex's choice), but my village consists of A LOT of people: my mother, my grandmother, my father, my sister, and I just recently hired a part-time nanny.
Using an example of a single parent with two kids within the current system, we could regressively replace around $45,000 of benefits (if we also eliminate child care, which is yet another detail I don't recommend) with $83,000 in cash.
Two parents in a group of 14 at a school for excluded children in north London report that they were encouraged to educate their child at home (one was a single parent, studying at university and living with her father).
The biggest hikes number in the thousands of dollars and are concentrated among single parents: A single parent with $75,000 in earnings, two children in school, and no child care costs (because the kids are in school) would pay $2,6.23 more.
In a chat with PEOPLE and Entertainment Weekly Editorial Director Jess Cagle, the Watch What Happens Live host said he "didn't want to wait" any longer to become a father, even if it meant doing it as a single parent.
So even though this character has escaped one danger, she still has to face the other dangers that will confront her daily life as a single parent on her own, with this kid who is becoming increasingly out of control.
To her, transferring Kayvon to Oaks Christian was a no-brainer, the type of opportunity kids from single-parent homes in the inner city simply don't receive: $60,000 worth of free tuition at one of the state's premier college preparatory schools.
Clinton said, a family with both parents earning minimum wage has to spend about 20 percent of its income on child care, while a single parent earning the minimum wage has to spend 40 percent of his or her income. Mrs.
"I can't afford to pay because I'm a single parent, I'm the one who is providing food on the table," the 27-year-old said in a shopping centre on the outskirts of her home township of Alexandra in Johannesburg.
"She's a single parent, she's a first grade teacher, she works in a low-funds school, she's always making sure that her students are first — giving out of pocket for them, making sure they excel," Ashley Almonte explained to Kylie.
If $2,200 was sent to a single parent with two children who was previously earning $12 per hour, they would likely use the funds to buy groceries, pay a cell phone bill or cover a car, rent or mortgage payment.
Had she known she had Huntington's, Jane says, she would have terminated her pregnancy rather than have a child who was at high risk of both having a life-destroying disease and being raised by a terminally ill single parent.
Motivated both by her own experiences and the increasing number of single parent families booking trips with her firm, Ms. McKie created six new tours specifically for solo parent families to Costa Rica, Thailand, Northern India, Egypt, Vietnam and Morocco.
And although I've been a single parent since my daughter was just learning to walk, I'd managed to avoid considering what would happen to her if something were to happen to me, her primary caretaker and provider, her protector, her champion.
Openness in a marriage, for better or for worse, would seem a natural outgrowth of those conflicting cultural values, especially since same-sex marriage, open adoptions, single-parent homes, and ideas about gender fluidity have already redefined what constitutes a family.
Trump's spokeswoman, says that the first lady will announce her initiatives in her own good time, and that her devotion as a mother — she is essentially a single parent to 11-year-old Barron — provides hints of her next move.
To the Editor: While it's wonderful that Lori Szala found support as a young, single parent who quit school and worked her way up the ladder at an investment firm, her experience is far from the reality for other women.
A lot of people have this impression that all of Chicago's problems are because kids are in single-parent homes or not going to school or whatever—which is obviously often true but is different from the story you're telling.
Read: How Christopher Young's 14-Year Plea Deal for Drug Crimes Turned Into Life in Prison Young was homeless for long stretches of his childhood, and his mother, a single parent, suffered from a drug addiction and was in and out of jail.
As Alice, Witherspoon plays a woman trying to find herself after a separation, while juggling being a single parent, starting a new career, and playing host to three aspiring filmmakers — one of which is just a little too handsome for his own good.
During much of that time, she has essentially been functioning as a single parent; she is married to Brian Fallon, another former aide to Mr. Schumer who spends weekdays in Brooklyn, where he is the press secretary for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.
Even if one skipped over Cobb's prelude, the blinkered ideas that the issue of single-parent families is seemingly endemic to majority Black communities in the United States, and that this issue ripples outward to destabilize the larger social sphere permeate our culture.
The tour concluded at Union Docs, with a screening of the documentary Los Sures, a film made in 1984 which intimately depicted the problems of Los Sures during that decade: poverty, drugs, crime, abandoned real estate, single-parent homes, and inadequate local resources.
So women talked about how they were the sole support for their kids as a single parent, or how they were supporting family members with disabilities, and why they felt they were the ones who are standing between their families and financial disaster.
"My deep emotional connection to my mother, a remarkable woman who made a hard choice to save her children, and who valiantly struggled to care for us as a single parent, is the current that has driven my entire life," Hirono said.
The state's minimum wage for 2018 is $7.85 an hour—but the Massachusetts Institute of Technology estimates that a single parent of two children needs to make at least $26.96 an hour, full-time, to be able to support their family in Missouri.
Tchen, 63, who raised her two children as a single parent while forging a high-flying career as a lawyer, said it had often been a struggle to get CEOs to focus on issues like discrimination and harassment, but this was changing.
When you first become a single parent, either through the birth of a child or a relationship separation, dating is likely the last thing on your mind as you do your best to balance work and parenting without a live-in partner.
As a result of their backgrounds, Pell Grant students – like other low-income students – tend to face many unique personal barriers to completing a college degree, such as being a single parent or not going straight to college out of high school.
The heroine's parents also make a brief appearance in the book, and Binudin-Lecocq said it will be possible in a few weeks to change those characters from a man and woman to a single parent, same-sex couple or mixed-race couple.
"As someone who grew up in a single-parent family, I hope the government and companies will take relief measures or compensate single parents, two-income families and other families who might face difficulties due to their jobs," one commenter wrote on Twitter.
The changing demands of our nation's economy, the stress of our demanding labor market and the challenges created by an increasing number of children being raised in single-parent families have all left parents struggling with the competing demands of work and parenting.
A single parent with $220,239.6 in earnings, two children in school, and no child care costs (because the kids are in school) would've paid $225,440 more under Trump's plan (which included a child care deduction that the Big Six plan might not).
"Most importantly, sibling bullying was not related to whether this was a two- or single-parent household, income or social class - it occurs in poor and rich families alike," said study co-author Dieter Wolke, a psychology researcher at the University of Warwick in Coventry.
There are anime, movies, and TV series that deal with the topics that sweetness and lightning depicts, but what sets this show apart from others is its pointed concentration on what a single parent household is really like for both adults and their children.
Robert A. Moffitt, an economist at Johns Hopkins University, notes that this is largely due to the trend of moving benefits away from the "undeserving poor"—those who are unemployed, single-parent, and extremely poor—towards what society considers the more "deserving" working poor.
Ultimately what the Oxford study found was that there is no consistent good or bad effect, and although a very slight negative effect was noted, it was small enough that factors like having a single parent or needing to wear glasses were far more important.
This, says Stout, has resulted in a dramatic increase in the number of single-parent families, homeless, and runaway children (allowing gang membership to proliferate, he says)—A question then for open-borders-pushers on the left is, who is really separating families here?
BERLIN (Reuters) - A new film about a father-daughter relationship in a world without women was shaped by Casey Affleck's own struggles with becoming a single parent, the Oscar-winning actor said at the Berlin Film Festival where "Light Of My Life" is premiering.
Now the image of an investigative journalist is a woman in her late 50s who was raised by a single parent, left home at age 16 to earn enough money to attend college, and scrapped her way up the journalistic ladder at the Miami Herald.
Just as she didn't expect Mr. Garish to be sympathetic to her single-parent status, she didn't expect her daughter to fall for the soft-spoken stranger-soldier whose personality had done a U-turn in the 173 years that had passed since kindergarten.
My marriage did not survive, and — while Janak's father and I split custody — for the time that Janak was with me, I was fully a single parent, even as I was starting a brand-new civil rights organization in the wake of Sept 11.
And I don't think the single family is either, because I don't think the federal government or the single family, particularly a single parent, can actually ... they don't have the adaptive capacity for an age when we're seeing a change in the pace of change.
States get a set pool of money and are supposed to use it both to provide temporary, time-limited cash assistance to poor single parent families and to provide work training, child care, and other services to get those single parents into the workforce.
Castro also had several good moments, including his reference to the El Paso, Texas, mass shooting as an attack on "people who look like me" and his retelling of his story from a kid in a single-parent household to a prominent national politician.
"If I'm a single parent, working one job or two jobs or with limited transportation, I'm faced with multiple demands in my time, you can provide me all the information you want, but at the end of the day, that still doesn't solve my problem," Viswanath said.
That was the really striking thing that came out of this paper: there was this very independent effect, sort of consistent in its magnitude, regardless of whether they lived with their own two [biological] parents, with one parent and one stepparent, or with a single parent.
There's also "Overboard," with Anna Faris as the working-class single parent (played by Kurt Russell in the 1987 original) who exacts revenge on a wealthy playboy after he falls off his yacht and forgets who he is (Eugenio Derbez takes on the Goldie Hawn role).
Bock's new book is more muted, perhaps because it is based on events that actually happened to him and his first wife, Diana Joy Colbert, whose death from leukemia (after a two-and-a-half-year battle) left Bock a single parent of their young daughter.
Then it becomes a practical question whether single-parent families, in which 70 percent of African-American children live, is rightly thought of as a social phenomenon over which we have control if it's thought of as the inheritance of Jim Crow slavery and American racism.
Back when Green was filled with the curiosity of a child, he and his two brothers were over at his grandmother's Long Island home all the time, while their dad, Daniel Green Sr., a young single parent, was out working three jobs to try and make ends meet.
Cohen says that alongside his willingness to raise baby Benjamin in a single-parent household, he has a ton of support from friends, a baby nurse and "a swarm of women around who are ready to love on this boy" — likely at least in part referring to the Real Housewives.
Meghan is from a modest background compared to Harry's previous partners: she was married before and is a divorcee; her parents split when she was young; she was effectively raised by a single parent; and most interesting of all, as well as being a celebrity, she is a woman of color.
Fifty two years after the Great Society, this Democratic utopia still looks like food stamps, welfare checks, broken down public schools, drug cartels, abject poverty, rising drug addiction, jailed youth, and a perverse web of welfare state incentives that has fostered a boom in foster homes and single-parent households.
" "I guarantee you somewhere today, a child was physically harmed or ingested poison because they were home alone because a single parent didn't have any money to take care of them," he said, adding that "some were introduced to drugs for the first time because they were vulnerable and left alone.
Some of the neighborhood factors are: median family income, percentage of households in poverty, percentage of single-parent households, percentage of vacant housing units, percentage of adults without a high school degree, percentage of adults without a college degree, percentage of adults with agriculture jobs and the unemployment and crime rates.
"I am a single parent and things are not easy for me economically so I'm waiting in line to cast my vote for the future," she told Reuters at a polling station in Waterloo, a village nestled in palm trees and forest on the outskirts of the West African country's capital.
My late West Indian-American mother, a single parent with four daughters, would have loved the Jamaican dance-hall sound that infuses "Hold Up," as well as the message that Beyoncé telegraphs in that song and others: that her life and, by extension, all black female lives, and bodies, matter.
Back in 1998, Morrison called Clinton "our first black president" in a New Yorker essay because the scrutiny Clinton received around a sex scandal resembled a familiar racialized trope: Clinton displays almost every trope of blackness: single-parent household, born poor, working-class, saxophone-playing, McDonald's-and-junk-food-loving boy from Arkansas.
More than that, "The content of these programs inherently shame young people who are survivors of sexual assault, LGBTQIA, already sexually active, or even children of single-parent households," says Jesseca Boyer, interim president and CEO of the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the U.S. (SIECUS), a national sex ed advocacy group.
Apple is including options for basketball, running, and weight lifting The new set of emoji, which includes more than 100 variations when you take skin color options into account, also includes a water gun icon in place of the old revolver, a rainbow flag, and two different gender options depicting single-parent families.
For my mother, who is a single parent and really the primary earner, this also means often giving up prime work hours to care for her, whether that's working on her physical therapy, taking her to get a back procedure done or spending hours on the phone per week figuring out her bills.
Pulled from data taken over the course of 2004 to 2009, children whose single parent had a live-in partner experienced eight times the rate of maltreatment, nearly eight times the rate of neglect, and more than ten times the rate of abuse, as compared to children living with married biological parents.
Is it truly institutional racism and heartless policies to reduce government programs that resulted in conditions today, in which a majority of blacks live in low-income, drug-infested, crime-ridden neighborhoods, where children from single-parent households run wild in the streets, while others are achieving professional degrees and securing comfortable salaries?
When aging rocker Emily Wang (Maggie Cheung) gets released from jail following the junkie death of her partner, Lee Hauser (James Johnston), she faces two worlds: one, as a singer-songwriter revered and reviled for her hard-living ways, and the other, as the single parent of an estranged, now fatherless, young son.
In a chat with PEOPLE and Entertainment Weekly Editorial Director Jess Cagle for this week's issue of PEOPLE, the 50-year-old Watch What Happens Live host introduces son Benjamin Allen and says he "didn't want to wait" any longer to become a father, even if it meant doing it as a single parent.
In a seminal 2400 article, which compiled data from the Iowa Department of Human Services and interviews with nearly 2000,000 Iowa women, author Leslie Margolin reported that mothers' boyfriends performed less than 2 percent of non-parental childcare in single-parent households, yet were responsible for a staggering 64 percent of non-parental abuse.
Something important is lost when a neighborhood becomes a place where only the well off live — where a single parent will never again buy a house, where a schoolteacher will never again buy a house, where there's no little rental house for a lonely widow to move into, right across the street from her daughter.
That song's reflective of different experiences that I had—coming from a single parent home, going to fancy private schools, dropping out of them, coming to New York City, realizing that class doesn't matter, but then that class does matter when you have all of these extremely wealthy friends that you can't keep up with.
The district uses a complex formula that analyzes the city's census tracts for six factors: median family income, percentage of single-parent households, adult education level, percentage of owner-occupied homes, percentage of households in which English is not the first language and achievement scores of neighborhood schools for students living in the census tract.
Compared to the old code, a family of four earning the annual median income of $73,000 will see a tax cut of more than $2,000 for tax year 200063, while, a single parent with one child earning $41,000 per year will see a 73 percent tax cut, resulting in $1,304 in increased take-home pay.
Came up in the slum from a single parent motherIt is all gravy, you can get it smotherI'm a only child I used the streets as my brother Growing up in the southside Atlanta suburb of College Park, 2 Chainz, whose real name is Tauheed Epps, says he was more focused on basketball than on rap music.
" Robinson with his family in 2014, after becoming an officer Robinson said he also grew up in a single-parent household just across the river from the eight-year-old and, while he said he had a happy childhood, he remembers what it was like growing up in an environment where he says "it's easy to get into trouble.
Though Yang hasn't released a plan for introducing paid family leave, he does say on his campaign website that as president he would fight for a policy that requires "employers to offer at least nine months of paid family leave, distributed between parents however they see fit; or six months of paid leave for a single parent."
I also believe the vast majority of us think we should do all we can to care for our most vulnerable neighbors, such as the homeless veteran who served his or her country honorably,  the single parent doing all he or she can to make ends meet, and the Americans living with mental or physical disabilities.
The logic of $215 an hour follows thus: presuming a 22-hour workweek, a family of three (a single parent with two children, for example) would, at that rate, earn an annual salary of $2000,230 which is approximately $2000,0003 more than the amount at which the government officially designates a family of that size as poor.
"Children who are living or have lived in single parent families score as highly, or higher, against each measure of wellbeing than those who have always lived in two parent families" Speaking for myself, I'd go further and say there were benefits to being raised by a single mother, that it was foundational to becoming the adult I am now.
In the first episode of the Latina Love Project series, we watch an intimate conversation unfold between Thatiana Diaz, a 25-year-old former Miss New York USA, who's working her way up the entertainment journalism ladder, and her mother, Katty Diaz, who overcame financial difficulties as a single parent and went on to become a high-powered information technology sales executive.
Other characters in Ms. Markey's portrait gallery include two schoolteachers who identify themselves as Coach Christie Brinkley and Coach Pooh Bear; Coach Christie and a recalcitrant female student; a mother and daughter holding vigil at the deathbed of the mother's mother; and a high-school-age daughter and her single-parent dad, drinking beer together at the end of a hard day.
We don't usually see Madeline in the car with anyone but Chloe in this episode (she did have that ride to school with Jane and Ziggy in the premiere), which echoes the single-parent sentiment we find out in the episode, when Ed tells Nathan that Madeline feels like she raised her other daughter Abigail (who prefers to ride with her friends instead of Madeline) alone.
She was an early voice calling for the government to provide paid maternity leave and offer benefits for part-time workers, but eventually, when she saw no signs of progress, she began considering instead the ways that corporations could reconfigure work to address the realities of the modern employee, who was more likely than ever to be a single parent or part of a dual-income couple.
In an email follow-up, Smeeding wrote that if you start in the bottom quintile, race matters; but also it is a single parent issue and it is a high school dropout – or "less than high school" — issue: children who start in the bottom quintile and grow up in each type of family end up stacked at the bottom of the distribution when they get older.
And that's exactly why the college admissions process — with its overreliance on scores from tests that are widely regarded as biased against low-income students, students of color and students from single-parent households — is designed to let as few of us in as it can: Why invest in us when there could be a bigger payoff, in future donations, for that same spot?
Another way of stating Shelby's position is that even if, controversially, you were to grant a "culture of poverty" argument — that disrespect of authority, single-parent homes and reluctance to work are helping to perpetuate or worsen ghetto conditions — he would still oppose government efforts to coerce "better" behavior, out of respect for the autonomy, dignity and political resistance, however inchoate, of the wrongly oppressed.
This is especially true for a single parent, whose child care cost for one child age 4 or younger can be 20 to 60 percent of median income in all 50 states and reaches nearly 90 percent of median income in Washington, DC. For married couples with young children, 4 to 13 percent of a state's median income is spent on child care costs.
Any plan that does not include Augmon as head coach may not be a sustainable one, based on what Kunzer-Murphy has said she wants for the program: continuity, a coach who has deep roots at U.N.L.V., "a leader of men" who can sit across from the table from the type of player U.N.L.V. often recruits: second-chance players for whom U.N.L.V. is the final stop, some from single-parent homes.
This metric translates students into a set of crunched numbers that make anyone attending the same school and living in the same neighborhood look similar; the only adverse factors incorporated by the College Board that are tethered to an applicant's unique individual circumstances are those related to family situation, such as coming from a single-parent household, whether or not English is a second language and parental educational background.
According to The Wall Street Journal, one of the variables included on this dashboard is an "adversity score," which uses a scale of one through 100 and considers 15 factors about student's neighborhood (such as crime rates, poverty rates and housing values), family environment (such as family income, education level and single parent status), and high school environments (such as AP opportunity and what percentage of students qualify for free lunch).
In a controversial blog post last year entitled "Why I hate Detroit" , Eric Thomas, a native Detroiter who is a brand strategist at Saga MKTG, a marketing firm in the city, points out that 40% of his city's residents live under the poverty line; the median household income is $25,000; almost three-quarters of households are single-parent homes; the unemployment rate is 10%, which is about twice the national average.
" WATCH: Kristin Cavallari Shows Off Her Bikini Body on Vacation with Husband Jay Cutler Cavallari, who quipped that she's "a single parent these days" and their home is "a little nuts" because Cutler is away training, said that she and the couple's three children — sons Camden Jack, 5, and Jaxon Wyatt, 2, and daughter Saylor James, 1 — will "start to be down there a lot for all of the home games.

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