Research Proposal The Academic and Social Challenges of Children from Single Parent Homes Ball State University Jason Huffer EDPS 640 Dr. Eric Pierson 5/4/2016 Children of Single Parent Homes 2 Abstract The purpose of this current study is to highlight the growing academic concerns and difficult social challenges facing children who live in single parent homes. For this study I will focus on children nationwide. I will present data related to this topic on a couple different subject
children to grow up without their fathers. Father absence is a crucial social issue and can be linked to dozens of our most pressing social dilemmas. David Blankenhorn of the American Experiment said “this trend of fatherlessness is the most socially consequential family trend of our generation” (Blankenhorn). Father absence in the American home has a serious and negative effect on the well-being of our society. Literature Review/Discussion Among the issues affected by father absence are poverty rates,
is rare to find a traditional family with a stay at home mom. Today, many children grow up in a single parent environment, with mothers who work most of the time to support them. Many children will also grow up without a father figure. In the article” Absent Fathers: Why Don’t We Ever Talk about the Unmarried Man?” Rebecca Blank states, “For every single mother, there is a father who is not living with his children. It seems that people have forgotten the importance of a father figure in a child’s
truthfully changed from what one would consider a family in today’s society. During earlier centuries a family consisted of a father, mother and their children; however that is no longer the case for most families in American society today. In American society families are defined in many different facets such as the traditional family, blended families, single parent homes and homosexual families. Regardless of the components of the family, one must understand that a family is a unit in which there
The role of fathers is a complex one. Even though at some point in history fathers became uninvolved in theirs children’s lives, modern-day fathers are seeking to be present for their children, and today there are still some stigmas from the past that fathers have to deal with. Colonial father were more involved than industrialized fathers did; however, there pattern changed and nowadays there are diverse types of fatherhood. During the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, those who provided
Supernatural is an American television show that plays on The CW. The show is about two brothers, Sam and Dean, who hunt monsters and ghosts. They got into the business of hunting because their mother was killed by a monster when Sam was 6 months old and Dean was four years old. After that incident, their father, John, began seeking vengeance and taught himself all about monsters, hoping to one day find the one that killed his wife. After he discovered that monsters were real he also taught the
unconditionally loved me the way I was and bought me a lot of dresses that a princess would wear in a fairy tale book. Also, she encouraged my learning and bought me more than hundreds of books to broaden my insight of the world. However, my father was a traditional, patriarchal Korean man who was immediately ashamed that his first born child was a girl instead of the preferred boy. He believed that women do not need higher education but they were born to support men and for domestic work. In fact, he
The American Dream is becoming less attainable, and now resembles a myth that Americans can only hope to achieve. In Robert Putnam’s Our Kids: The American Dream Crisis,the author begins his book by analyzing his own hometown, then branches out to other locations in showing the growing disparity within communities and families. Putman portrays the growing class differences through statistics and narratives on actual people. In this essay I will evaluate Putnam’s book and apply it to the actions
are changing in various ways. In the articles “What is a Family?”, “Absent Fathers: Why Don’t We Ever Talk About Unmarried Men?”, “Cohabitation Instead of Marriage”, “Ballad of a Single Mother” and “Children of Gay Fathers”, they all share and show different ways families are like worldwide today. They speak about how they feel about there relationships with there family and children and who they are as a person. The new American family unit brings with it many struggles that have now become common
society the role of the father has changed many times throughout history. The expectations and views that our society has about fathers and fatherhood have changed dramatically in the last few decades. In the past fathers assumed the role of the breadwinner and disciplinarians while the mother’s where in charge of the upbringing of his children. The expectations of fathers as presented by the media is that they become more than breadwinner of the family. As a man become a father he must expect that his