Single Motherhood in The Bean Trees In the United States, the effects of single-parent family life on children fall into two categories: 1) those attributed to the lower socioeconomic status of single parents and 2) the short-term consequences of divorce that moderate over time (Jrank 1). A single-parent family can be defined as a family where a parent lives with a dependent child/children, within either a house just for them, or a larger household, without a partner and/or spouse. Raising a child…
That moment when we sat around the table and spoke of what was going to happen, I looked around at my siblings and remember the tears running down their face. The separation of my parents changed my life completely, although I know it was for the best. Life, being turned upside down, not knowing what the future holds, describes my life perfectly. “Tough times never last, but tough people do”, stated by Robert H Schuller, an American Christian televangelist, pastor, motivational speaker, and author;…
metaphorizing my life to the parent lottery, I would say that I definitely won. I didn 't feel as if I had won because I didn’t know that I did. Growing up, my parents would always tell me stories about how I changed their life, and how they would do whatever it took to care for and nurture me. My mom had me at a pretty late age, and the doctors had told my mom to expect a child with restricted abilities in the child’s physical characteristics and an autistic mentality. My parents were upset, but my mom would…
My mother was born and raised in Ethiopia where things are really tough and complicated. She’s found to be the second born in her family of six children. My mother got married in early age in small village called Awassa located in Ethiopia and became a mother of four children, which are two girls and two boys. After we were born my mother got abounded by our father and become a single mother. Since then my mom raised three of my siblings and I by herself. Back then being a single parent in my country…
When I was 21 years-old, I was thinking that my future would be traditional. By that I mean to have a good job, get married, and then have children. I did not follow those plans. I was pregnant when I was 23 years-old and working at a private country club with crazy hours. The moment that I had my daughter she brought light to my eyes, bring a new meaning to life and being a parent. I believe that children bring an increase sense of meaning in people’s lives. They help us grow ourselves and become…
This paper is for my parent in later life class. We have learned a lot about journey to adulthood and how it has changed over the years. For my interview assignment, I interviewed my sixty-seven year-old grandmother, “Tasha” and my twenty-seven year-old cousin, “Nicole”. Tasha is a retired and now stays at home to watch the grandchildren. She has some of the grandchildren living with her. So she is grandparenting her grandchildren. She and has a husband “Walley” have been married for 50 years and…
our lives has a single happiness. It depends on the circumstances, perspective, and the feeling of us. In particular, my happiness is my own family because it gives me the strange warmth and it’s always around me. I never want to lose it. Therefore, that is important to my life and I always respect it. How come I say my happiness is the family. It has three reasons makes me think it is important in my life. At first, I think I am a lucky person because I always have my parents stay beside me. They…
more pollution, and less electricity. My dad was a shopkeeper and my mom was a housewife. They did not have enough money, so they could not afford the fee for the school. They never let me and my younger sister realize that they were low on money. Most of all there were additional fees for schools like different color of uniform for every other day, so many books, and some money in advanced to hold your spot in school. Somehow my parents did pay, so that my younger sister and I could study. At the…
Without my dad in our lives, every aspect changed. My mom was a stay-at-home parent. She now had three kids to raise alone, with no college degree. Feelings of injustice, discontent, depression, and anger filled my home. My family became broken and I became apprehensive about my life. Even as a fourth grader, I was so aware of the extreme cost of college that I started a piggy bank with the purpose of saving for college. There were no leftover savings, as we had declared bankruptcy in 2005. My mom applied…
with two results my life would change drastically. My experience, having two kids is nothing I would ever change. Although both pregnancies were completely divergent, I still took pleasure in raising Jaslene and Matthew. At this point in time, being sixteen wasn’t easy. Finding out I was pregnant sure didn’t make it any easier. But with support from certain people everything seemed a bit better. My dad, of all people, had to let it sink in for quite a few months. As my pregnancy went along…