The Stereotypes Of Being Raised In A Single Parent Home

My mother has raised my brother and myself as a single parent since the divorce. She has also taken on the responsibility of taking care of her mother after some major health issues depleted her ability to care for herself. Our family has struggled financially with this one income issue causing difficulty to provide just the basic needs. My brother is currently attending Florida Atlantic University, and although my mother helps as much as she can, he has to obtain loans just to survive. I know that my mother will not have the ability to help me through college, so I am doing whatever I can do to eliminate the financial road block that is standing in my way to reach my career goal. Receiving a scholarship would help facilitate my ability to focus on my education instead of focusing on the ability to pay for

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I understand that my family and I are not living below the poverty line or fighting over bus fare, but this scholarship will still greatly benefit me. When my sister filed the FAFSA, she was not given an extraordinary amount of money. She had to take out loans to pay for her education. My family and I cannot afford to take out any more loans. In 2014, we lost our house due to foreclosure. For two years, every penny we earned went to our savings account to save up for a house. When I was fourteen years old, I had saved up five-thousand dollars for college. I decided to give the money to my parents in order to buy our house. I am a senior in high school, and I have not managed to recoup my money. Meanwhile, my parents are tied down to a thirty-year mortgage. In addition, my grandfather, who lives in Mexico, has been diagnosed with depression. My parents have been sending money over there in order to pay for his care and medicine. Trying to find the right treatment for him has made money a bit tight in my household.

I intend to use this scholarship to help pay for my tuition and books at the Southern Arizona University of Phoenix- Online. I would like to be considered for this scholarship because I have no financial help from my family. This means that I have to be able to pay for college on my own because of the fact that my father is no longer in my life, and my mom has my other siblings to take care of. My father is no longer in my life because he now lives in Mexico with his other family. I don’t have financial help from him because he has a wife and six other children. My mother would like to be able to help me, but she has two other children she’s taking care of by herself, and she has to prepare for my sister's graduation next year as well as mine this year. I plan to get a job after I graduate to help pay for the expenses of college, but since I am going online the expenses of college are going to be a lot less than if I were to go on campus, this is the main reason I am planning to go online, and to take a lot of the stress of being totally alone off myself because I will only be twenty minutes away from my family instead of an hour or two.

It used to be that earning a college scholarship, whether it was academic or sports related, was a special honor that few kids received. Now, with the rising cost of college tuition, it has become almost necessary for students to earn scholarships to assist with fees associated with higher education. One year at a public university consumes 27% of the annual middle-class household income (EdTrust). That is a major blow to a middle-class household income. For that reason, parents start planning for college while their children are still young. For many parents, this is just a matter of saving. However, there are many parents that start thinking scholarships while their children are still young.

I have come from a struggling background. My parents never attended college and my mother has been the sole provider for my family for many years. I have watched her struggle trying to provide for us and I determined long ago that I would strive to do more for my future family than what she was able to give us. My dreams required that I attend college. It is because of the financial hardship my family faces every day that the financial burden that comes from attending college rests solely on my shoulders. Although I am employed, I do not make enough money to pay for the cost of living and my school expenses. My goal is to become an attorney and I do everything in my power to attain that goal. I excel in all of my classes and have become a leader on my campus and in my community. I rely on scholarships like the Silas Purnell Scholarship to recognize these attributes in me and with the help of this award I will be able to take my last step in my path of earning my baccalaureate degree and making my goals my

I believe that I am a worthy candidate for this scholarship due to my recognition of the financial impact of college. Growing up in a single parent home has been a financially and emotionally difficult feat for my mother and myself. When I was seven years old, my father passed away from a blood clot. During his life, he served in Vietnam, where he was granted a Purple Heart after shattering his kneecap on a landmine. He was on disability, and my mother was employed as a rehabilitation nurse, the only source of income in our family. After his death, my mother and I both began to go to therapy for our grief over losing my father. Focusing on my mental health helped me accept the meaning of death, and struck my motivation to honor my father and ensure that he would be proud of me. When I grew up, we always relied on getting clothes from thrift stores to save money and cutting any unnecessary expenditures. My mother always worked to have enough money for food and comfort. I received monetary Survivor Benefits after his death until my high school graduation this past May. As mentioned before, my mother has Multiple Sclerosis, which is an unfortunately expensive illness. Shortly after her diagnosis, the rehabilitation unit of her work closed and she was left on unemployment right before my sophomore year of high school. I was not old enough to drive or work, so finances were incredibly strict. On my 16th birthday, I attended an orientation to work as a lifeguard at our local YMCA. The next day, I also got my license to eliminate transportation issues. My employment alleviated financial and emotional stress on my mother, as I was able to contribute to the bills and my personal expenses. Throughout my life, my mother has also been very dependent on alcohol to relieve stress. There were numerous times where I

Although I live in a two parent household, I am only one of two college students in my family. Currently both of my parents are employed in Social Services, and unfortunately they do not have a lot of discretionary income to contribute financially to my college costs. I qualify for a partial Pell Grant, but I will still fall short of the total cost to attend Southeast Missouri State University for the 2016-17 school year. In order to avoid taking out a significant amount of loans, which will leave me in debt I have worked hard in the classroom to maintain a 4.0 GPA to qualify for merit based scholarships. Receiving The Joyce and Thomas H. Stanisic Memorial Scholarship will allow me to focus solely on my education rather than financing my education throughout my sophomore year of college.

When I was seventeen years old I remember the looks and whispers I received when people noticed the large belly protruding underneath my shirt. In the society we live in today we often hear about teen pregnancy and teen mothers. Everyone has their views and how they portray that adolescent mothers cannot raise a child as well as a grown woman could. These ideas may be based on the situations of some teen moms but not all.

The idea the authors, Naomi Gerstel and Natalia Sarkisian, are communicating to the audience is that the minority families do not have weaker ties to its extended family relationships compared to the white families. Rather, the ties to kinship depends on racial or ethnic differences.

My family, like many other middle-class families, do not have $20,000 of expendable resources to pay for college for my sister and I. The only way I will be able to afford college is if I receive enough scholarships to cover nearly all the tuition. Our education system and the amount of money necessary to pay for a bachelor’s degree has put financial stress on my parents and have caused me to overextend myself in school and community involvement in hopes of attracting scholarship committees to decide I am deserving of the money they are giving. Education is important because it allows college graduates to obtain stable jobs.

When I think of hardworking and dedication the first people that come to mind are my parents. Both of my parents have come from backgrounds where at times things were difficult. They instilled the values of hard work and passion into me from a young age and have ultimately left me inspired. Neither of my parents could attend a post-secondary institution. In fact, if I am accepted into university then I will be the first child in both past and current generations of my family to obtain a university degree. As hardworking as my parents are, to fully financially support two children who plan on going to university just is not possible while paying for other expenses in life too. Considering my father works in the oil field, as one can imagine, there is never a guaranteed amount of annual income that our family can expect. In 2015 alone we experienced a significant decrease in annual income due to the state of economy and the price of oil. A big reason as to why I am applying for the Centennial Scholarship is because I believe my parents deserve to save for their retirement versus paying for the next eight years of my education. My parents have never said

The book that I chose was, 'In Our Mother's House' and there were no serious sterotypes. The author made sure to portray the lesbian parents, Marmee and Meema, as normal as any other couple. Both mothers read to their kids, gave them surprises , and were there to comfort the kids. Towards the end Marmee and Meema grew old together to see their grandchildren. Their kids did not follow their path and remained heterosexual; this kills of the sterotype of children who are of homosexual parents will become homsexuals.

Negativity Towards Fathers: Incapable Stereotype Fathers have been degraded in many movies, television shows, and commercials as incapable and incompetent. Stereotypes are socially constructed by society and the media. As humans tend to label people by what we are taught and see through the media. This stereotype arrived from the 1950’s and 1960’s sitcoms that relied on the incapable father to keep the viewers entertained. The sitcoms in that day and age featured a “5 o’clock dad…with a newspaper as a face” (Quindlen 101).

Now days the statistics are clearly show that many family they no longer live in the traditional habits of family and as well the number of single mother have increased writhing all races and cultures. And in the defense some single mother that are in middle class they have the stereotype that they will give a bad education to their children it will distance themselves from the circumstances of younger, poorer, less educated because they are single mothers. It would suggest that these women are seeking to distance themselves from the negative images that might cause been the two roles to your children that will become a good son or daughter with high matters and good education feedback, it would have troubling implications for the role feminists