Single Parenting In The 1800's

I believe that society has changed for the worse. The reason I believe this is because society in the past was much simpler. There was not a lot of technology available to individuals. People are starting to lose the art of communication. Instead people text one another in text lingo versus using proper grammar. Family units in the 1950's, 60's, and 70's were much different than they are today. There were more families with two parents in the home. There was less single parent household or step parent households. the more society evolve and changes the worse our society is becoming. The more technology is incorporated into our lives the further people seem to be getting from one another. In the 1950's a traditional household consisted of one mother, one father, two or three children, and a

Is there a reason traditional families have lasted for thousands of years? In the argumentative essay “In Defense of Single Of Motherhood” by Katie Roiphe, the author is arguing that a single mother is a significant way to raise children. Roiphe also includes how being a traditional mother and father family is unsuccessful and frustrating. Although being a single mother may work for her, countless numbers of single mothers struggle in many different ways. These struggles affect the mother and the children as well. Being a single mother is harmful for a family because a child needs a father figure, it is too much stress on one person, and it is financially difficult to raise a family on one income.

About four in every ten children born in America in 2008 were born outside of marriage, and they are disproportionately minority and poor. “Only about 6 percent of college-educated mothers’ births are nonmarital versus 60 percent of those of high school dropouts” (5). Scholars responded to this by studying single-parent families.

All across the globe, there are children growing up in single-parent households, and through some research

According to “http://family.lovetoknow.com” Family life today is somewhat different from the family life back then in the colonial America.

From the roaring 20’s to the dirty 30’s, There has been major changes to the American family. Instead of reading newspapers, people now have radios to listen and tune in at. From watching plays, they now have movie theaters that they can attend with family.The old fashion way of watching sports in the stadium was no longer needed, they now have TV’s that broadcast everything. Sports, Music, and fun distractions were now the way to live in the 1900’s. The life of the typical American family was now characterized by the time spent with the radio, Music stars, and famous baseball sport legends.

Twain's view is a reasonable point of view. In the story the towns racist point of view influences the townsfolk’s view of Injun Joe. Many people of the time feared and avoided people different then themselves. This fear is called, “xenophobia.” This fear plays a large role in the story line.

Aunt Polly can handle many challenges with Tom, but she isn’t exactly like your typical modern- day mom. Aunt Polly cares a lot about her reputation and can be very humiliated with Tom. When she went to talk to Mrs. harper about Tom’s miraculous “dream”, she told Tom afterwards that she went “ ‘to Sereny Harper and make a fool of myself’ ” while Tom “never said a word” (130).

In the United Kingdom, family structures and sizes are changing gradually. There are different types of family like nuclear families, lone parent families, cohabiting families, foster families and so on. Family changes have caused a dramatic effect on British society. In recent years the marriage rate has decreased. Moreover, divorce rate is high in this country. Teenage pregnancy is also a frequent occurrence. These changes have a significant effect on child poverty. The recent review of the literature, on children of divorced parents, done by Rodgers and Pryor in 1998, has argued that they are more likely to be in poverty and to be poorer when they are adults. (May, Page & Brunsdon, 2000, 38) Furthermore, research done by Adelman and Bradshaw

Supporting a family is something that is very important, and hard to come by. The road to success is something that does not come easy in life. Many try and succeed and others have great success without much effort. In the late 1840’s, many families made just enough money to get by, it was never enough. Every week families would scrape up what little they had to spend or trade and head into town, in hopes to find some food to bring home. Every week became harder and harder, as market values were increasing.c In the winter months of 1849, news spread across America, and the world, that would forever change our Nation. There had been pure virgin gold found in the American river, near sacramento California. Many families would soon make a decision

Social class has always been a depicting factor when it comes to the distribution of food variety within each economic class. We learn our eating habits as child as we become inhabited to a diet that is present forth to us by our parents. The parent’s food supply is control by their economical income and social status. Just as a lower-class individual you should have the same opportunity to provide yourself with a healthier diet that someone of the upper class does. In society, where single parenting is developing into a popular relationship that places more of a strain on the finances within the household. For example, if you have a mother of 4 working a minimum wage job she not going to purchase name brand items like Tropicana or Ocean Spray

For many years, society romanticized the idea of the “perfect family.” The perfect family would be happily married parents and well- behaved children living a non-chaotic, peaceful life. As times have changed, many people are still fixated on the idea that single parents are bad parents. “A Pew Research Center poll on family structures reports that nearly 7 in 10 Americans think single mothers are a ‘bad thing for society’.”

Single parent households are a sensitive topic that is highly debated today. This topic is one that has repercussions for both the parents and the children involved. However, regardless of the different consequences, these households continue to grow in the coming years. “In 1970, traditional two-parent married households dominated, making up 81 % of all households in the United States (US). By 2012 this number dropped to around 66 % … In 2012, approximately 21 million children, or 28 % of all children in the US, lived with one parent” (Kramer, 2015). It is interesting to look at the way the single parent households continue to grow throughout the years, all while being a hot topic for discussion on its consequences. When thinking about a book to read for this course, there was no real choice. I stumbled upon this book and knew right away that I could benefit from this book, as well as connect to it on a deeper level and relate to it personally.

Single parents are more likely to have greater financial problems than a married couple. Single parents who work don 't always have a family or a friend that can take care of their children 's. Therefore, daycare is the only option when the child is too young for school. The cost of day care may take up, up to half of your paycheck. It becomes more difficult when you include your everyday needs, for example rent/mortgage, medical bills, gas, groceries and normal bills. Single parents need to make sure they have enough money at the end of the month, however married couples have more of a straightforward path when it comes to all of this. For instance, when both parents work, their monthly income is considerably higher, giving them a further advantage when it comes to buying items, paying bills, and other necessities. In the scenario where only one person works, it allows the other to take care of their kid 's so they don 't have to pay for a sitter or daycare. Depending on the earned income of the single parent, this determines if they will get government assistance. Yet that still may not be enough , especially if they have more than one child, which in turn makes it difficult for their parents to meet their children needs. Most single parents don 't choose to be actively single. There 's even cases where the other parent doesn 't pay for child 's support, making the situation worse. To add to insult, the government may not agree to give you support , even knowing the

Katie Roiphe, author of “In Defense of Single Motherhood,” states, “In a season of ardent partisan clashing, Americans seem united in at least one shared idea: Single mothers are bad” (58). In the article, Roiphe defends single-parent families by explaining that they have the same qualifications as two-parent families. She justifies that financial stability can come from one-parent families, stable one-parent families can go without a father figure, and conflict occurs more often in two-parent families (Roiphe 58-60). Although Roiphe supports single motherhood, I believe her article could be arguable to those who live or have lived in a two-parent family. Children raised in two-parent families benefit from financial stability, emotional support, and paternal parenting, which gives the children a greater chance of succeeding in life.