Chelsey Steinbrink Single Working Mothers

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Final Submission Chelsey Steinbrink Rasmussen College Author’s Note: This assignment was submitted on September 17, 2013 for Chelsey Steinbrink’s Work and Family Course. The topic I have chosen for this project is single working mothers. During this research I will be looking at the statistics of single working mothers. The statistics I am going to be looking at are things like did they finish school, did they attend college, and what kind of jobs are they holding. I think it is important for us to see the different hardships they have in this process. By the end of this I want to find out ways to help these single working mothers and what are ways others can help. This is very important to me because I know individuals…show more content…
This number has been rising and it is seen to be continuing rising. In earlier years, the men would be the workers and the women would stay at home to care for the children. We see now that this is not always the case. There are more single parent families maintained by the mother than the father. In 2011, the U.S. Census Bureau looked at single parent families. There was a tremendous difference between the families maintained by mother and by father. With children under 18 the mother maintained 85.2% while the father maintained 11% (“Working Parents”, 2012). As you can see there is a major difference in these two areas. In 2006, the proportion of mothers with newborns that were in the workforce was at 57% (“Working Parents”, 2012). That number increased to 61% in 2008 (“Working Parents”, 2012). There are many single working mothers who have not finished High School or received a GED. This leads to problems down the road. Thirty percent of teenage girls who have dropped out of school listed pregnancy or parenthood as the primary reason (“Teen Pregnancy Prevention”, n.d.). That percentage does not seem as high as some people think, but what kind of jobs can these females hold without a diploma or GED? Only 40 percent of teen moms finish high school (“Teen Pregnancy Prevention,” n.d.). It is understandable on why these girls do not finish high school, but it is extremely crucial that they

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