Nate Smith Diana Reaves ENGL 1013 10/2/12 The Reality of Marriage with Kids Is having a functional, benefiting marriage feasible once children and their many needs become a part of a couple’s life? For Hope Edelman and Eric Bartels, two adults trying to balance work, marriage, and children, the task seems near impossible at times. Hope Edelman explains in “The Myth of Co-Parenting: How It Was Supposed to Be. How It Was” her expectation of having “shared responsibility” (Edelman 284). But actually raising a child single-handedly while her husband, John, is consumed with his work.
I dont think that this is worth it. Not being their for your child can be so damaging mentally for a child. Due to the fact that some men should not to be a man , and take responsilbility for the child they fathered have caused many unforunate events. Fatherless child are 30 times more likely to run away, 20 times more likely to have behavioral disorders and/or end up in prison, and for boys 14 times more likely to even commit rape. All of these events are unbelievable but hapen to be true.
There are many different reasons to why children may be taken away to be looked after away from their families. The following reasons are: • Bereavement- this is the death of a parent which then results in the child having nobody to care for the child. Bereavement can cause the family to be dysfunctional, causing the family unable to function properly which will then put pressure on the family and causing the child to either optionally become a looked after child or a care order out in place. Bereavement can put a lot of stress on a family and commonly stress and responsibility do not work well together. • Parental illness- if the parent becomes too ill to look and care for the child then the child may either be optionally put into care or a care order put in place to remove the child.
Hickman County Times 1208 S. Jefferson Clinton, KY 42034 September 2, 2011 Dear Mrs. Bencini: I am writing in regards to a social welfare policy issue that needs attention, Child Support Enforcement. Although there are more detailed laws and harsher penalties than in years past, there are still many non-custodial parents who slip through the cracks. These fathers, and in some cases mothers, are able to live their day to day lives with little worry of the repercussions of not paying their child support for one simple reason- they live in a different state than the custodial parent. Over the last decade, state and federal governments have spent approximately $3 billion to collect over $14 billion in child support which is, in itself, an
In conclusion, In the novel “A Long way Gone, memoirs of a boy soldier” by Ishmael Beah, told a story about how adults broke down a dramatical time of crisis which commonly related to the way the children represented themselves and their overall social aspect which lied within their hands. Adults fail to realize how important they really are in a child’s life. A lot of the things they do could effect how a child is raised because that is what they are taught. If they are not taught the right things, they could never know what is right or wrong and good or
Getting divorced can be difficult and in some cases it can become a nightmare. Many children live without their fathers or mothers. Single parents have a difficult task of caring for their child in many cases without the support of the other parent. The Cameron County Sheriff’s Department worked in aggregation with the Texas Attorney General’s Child Support Division to arrest the men who owed a total of $391,309, Sherriff Omar Lucio aforementioned. According to a Texas Attorney General’s press release, sheriff deputies were instructed to locate and arrest noncompliant parents before they were able to leave their homes for the day.
Child Custody The biggest question that divorcing parents face is who is going to retain custody of the children after the divorce and what role will the other parent play and to what extent. Most parents stress about the outcome of the child and how the divorce will also affect the child. Prior to the 1970’s most mothers were awarded majority of the custody, in the 1970’s research began to show that it was more beneficial for a child to have equal time with both parents, if they are both “fit and loving” (Demo & Fine, 2010, p.66). Although laws have changed to provide father’s more time and access to their child/ children research does show that although some divorced noncustodial fathers become closer to their children after the divorce, the majority greatly reduce their involvement with their children (Bokker, 2006). This is more harmful to the child’s wellbeing on many different levels.
This assistance is available to eligible families through state agencies. Each state is responsible for determining eligibility for families in need. Child care subsidies are especially helpful to single mothers who are below the poverty income level. In his article, “Child Care Subsidies and Child Development, Erdal Tekin stated, simply getting a job often isn’t enough to move single mothers out of welfare (1).” Child care subsidies make the difference in helping single mothers move from the welfare roll to economic self-sufficiency. Rising concerns about the importance of early learning, literacy, school readiness and youth development mark the importance of child care subsidies in affecting the quality of care received by low-income children served through this program.
In the beginning of the 1900s, social agencies started to supervise foster parents. This was the beginning where children’s needs as individuals were considered when placements were made. Foster care is a system of institutions, group homes, and private homes for abandoned, maltreated, and orphaned children. Placement in foster care is a solution to the care problems of children whose parents are unwilling, unable, or judged by the legal system as unfit to care for them. Foster care is unfavorable to American society, because “according to national statistic 40 to 50 percent of those children will never complete high school.
With much speculation, this topic has become a very intriguing argument. What people must understand is that properly raising a child does not rely on the structure of a family but should be more focused on the process or values that are taught to these children as they learn to mature. Children of single parents can be just as progressive with emotional, social and behavioral skills as those with two parents. People claim that the only way for children to gain full emotional and behavioral skills is to be raised by both a mother and a father. When a topic such as this one has a broad amount of variables it is impossible to simply link these problems to only having one parent.