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).
Cain uses inductive reasoning when she quotes “According to the U.S Census Bureau, in 1993 there were 34.9 million American families that were childless and only 33.3 million families with a child under the age of 18 (488).” Cain uses this example to prove to the reader that there has been a dramatic increase in the number of childless women over the past 30 years. Cain also uses deductive reasoning throughout her essay. For example, Cain quotes David Pearce Snyder from The Futurist Magazine “Our reasons for having children have changed over time. Whereas in earlier days children were needed to support a family, social safety nets have taken care of those needs (489).” By quoting another person, Cain shows the reader that the principle of her claim is also accepted by other people. Cain convinces the reader that not only she believes what she is arguing, but others also believe the same
However, the past several years has led to many more or blended families than any other time in history. The most evident development among American families has been declining in the traditional family (a married couple with children). New expressions of family structure established a change to describe the contrasting types of families such as single parent, step parent, blended, unmarried partners, same-sex partners, and multigenerational. “Andrew Cherlin reviews these historic changes, noting that marriage remains the most common living arrangement for raising children, but that children, especially poor and minority children, are increasingly likely to grow up in single-parent families and to experience family instability” (Scott, Steinberg). Family structure first started showing significant changes since World War II.
Discuss implications of research into attachments and day care practises (12 marks) Psychological research has helped to improve the advice given about the quality of day cares and what sort of day cares parents should leave their children with. The aim is to encourage children to socialise confidently without their parents by forming attachments to their caregivers and to minimise the negative impact of separation on attachment. One of these recommendations is to offer parenting classes to some parents who struggle with raising young children and need support and guidance on how to develop attachments with them. UK Government services such as ‘Sure Start’ centres now offer courses on parenting skill in order to aim to give every child the best start in life. Another recommendation is to avoid separating a child from its caregivers; many hospitals provide a bed for parents whose child has been hospitalised, to avoid the damage to attachments caused by separation.
The overall health of a nation is often judged by the health of their infants, children, and women of childbearing age. Consequently, our life expectancy rates are highly dependent on our infant mortality rates. The racial disparities amongst infant mortality rates and the mortality rate amongst women who died of pregnancy-related complications have been used as an indicator of social inequalities. There are numerous factors that affect the health of infants and pregnant women, however many of these factors reflect or are related to the health status of the mother, her immediate environment, and access to adequate health care. In 2006, the mortality rate amongst black women who died of pregnancy-related complications (34.8 per 100,000 births) was about four times the rate of white women
Disability Statistics 43 million are disabled, about 17% of 250 million; almost 1 out of 5 persons are disabled given these figures. [Congressional Committee findings for ADA]. Other sources show higher figures. Largest minority group One third of disabled Americans are 65 or older. Out of 45 million, that means 15 million of them are seniors.
Shouldn’t that cause us to question the sheer number of children we have sedated in this country? We depend on medication as a country and are teaching our children to do so also. Many countries would see this as a problem. Nearly half a million prescriptions for medications like Ritalin written in 1995 were written for children between the ages of 3 and 6 (Gibbs 1998). Also the percentage of children with an ADHD diagnosis that are being placed on medication jumped from 55% in 1989 to 75% in 1996 (Gibbs 1998).
Extended consisting grandparents who are living with the family, lone parents consisting of one single parent with children, re constituted and same sex parenting. Rapport (1982) had argued that there are five different types of family diversity. First one being Organisational diversity which refers to the different types of family structure such as, the single parent, re constituted etc. Second one being cultural which refers to south Asian families in which there is a likelihood for the families to be extended which would involve grandparents living with the family. Third one being class, inequalities in lifestyle have increased since the 1980’s.
In 1990, when the divorce rate was 4.7, there were 1,182,000 divorces in the United States (Births, Deaths, Marriages, & Divorces, 2006). This is not only affecting the people involved in the marriage, but it affects their families, children, and friends. Even though during my lifetime the divorce rates have been leveling off it is still a big part of our society. There are multiple social factors that led to the rising rates of divorce during the 1960s and 1970s and there are also ways that we can help lower the divorce rate even more by simply educating the teenage generation. In many divorce cases children are involved.
There are at least three million single parents in the Philippines, or 4 percent of the country's total 76.5-million population as of 2000, based on statistics collated from various official sources. That means there is a single parent in every group of 25 people, or in practically every medium-size office, or in every three or four households in a village. Assuming that every single parent has at least one child that brings to at least six million the number of citizens who may experience various degrees of prejudice because of their status. Based on the 1995 surveys of the National Census and Statistics Office (NCSO), there were 2.28 million Filipinos who were either widowed or separated from their spouses. The NCSO surveys do not show if those registered as single have children or may have regained their status after an annulled marriage.