Outcome of Children in Single Parent Homes
There are 318.9 million people in the United States of America according to the United States Census Bureau. 13.7 million of the 318.9 million individuals are considered single parents, they are responsible for raising 22 million children today (wolf). A single parent is described as an individual who brings up a child or children without a partner. The fact that 22 million of today’s children are being raised by single parents is a statistic that gives a positive view on the amount of success of single parents, but just because the children are growing up doesn’t mean they are growing up the right way.
When children grow up in single parent homes multiple aspects of their lives are affected. Due …show more content…
This program was created in the hope that schools would begin to establish parental committees and have people in them that have the ability to communicate with all nationalities to increase the success rate of all children. The ending results were thought to be an increase in parental involvement in a child’s educational journey, but no results were presented that showed a significant increase in any form of involvement. In 2001 Penn State performed a study that determined that students from both single parent and two parent households in the United States of America performance ratings were at the bottom of the list. "For both academic subjects — math and science — the largest performance gap between children from single-parent homes and those from two-parent families is found in the U.S.," Pong and Hampden-Thompson told attendees at the American Sociological Association meeting today (Aug 21) in Anaheim. "In other words, the U.S. ranks bottom among the 11 developed countries in terms of the equality of school performance between children from these two types of families."( ) America is a country that supplies very few assistance to single parents when it comes to educating their children. American single parents have few resources and more children when in comparison to other countries. China is a great example of a country that puts more of an emphasis and concern on …show more content…
Most jobs in today’s society require some sort of college degree. When students drop out of high school the only other option they have to compete with college students is a GED. Some people may give the argument that high school drop outs can apply for the same jobs that college applicants apply for no problem, which is true, but they will not be seen the same. A GED is seen as simply an equivalent to a high school diploma which is not an extension of a student’s education, but a less decorated high school diploma. “The average dropout can expect to earn an annual income of $20,241, according to the U.S. Census Bureau (PDF). That’s a full $10,386 less than the typical high school graduate, and $36,424 less than someone with a bachelor’s degree.”(Breslow,
There are 318.9 million people in the United States of America according to the United States Census Bureau. 13.7 million of the 318.9 million individuals are considered single parents, they are responsible for raising 22 million children today (wolf). A single parent is described as an individual who brings up a child or children without a partner. The fact that 22 million of today’s children are being raised by single parents is a statistic that gives a positive view on the amount of success of single parents, but just because the children are growing up doesn’t mean they are growing up the right way.
When children grow up in single parent homes multiple aspects of their lives are affected. Due …show more content…
This program was created in the hope that schools would begin to establish parental committees and have people in them that have the ability to communicate with all nationalities to increase the success rate of all children. The ending results were thought to be an increase in parental involvement in a child’s educational journey, but no results were presented that showed a significant increase in any form of involvement. In 2001 Penn State performed a study that determined that students from both single parent and two parent households in the United States of America performance ratings were at the bottom of the list. "For both academic subjects — math and science — the largest performance gap between children from single-parent homes and those from two-parent families is found in the U.S.," Pong and Hampden-Thompson told attendees at the American Sociological Association meeting today (Aug 21) in Anaheim. "In other words, the U.S. ranks bottom among the 11 developed countries in terms of the equality of school performance between children from these two types of families."( ) America is a country that supplies very few assistance to single parents when it comes to educating their children. American single parents have few resources and more children when in comparison to other countries. China is a great example of a country that puts more of an emphasis and concern on …show more content…
Most jobs in today’s society require some sort of college degree. When students drop out of high school the only other option they have to compete with college students is a GED. Some people may give the argument that high school drop outs can apply for the same jobs that college applicants apply for no problem, which is true, but they will not be seen the same. A GED is seen as simply an equivalent to a high school diploma which is not an extension of a student’s education, but a less decorated high school diploma. “The average dropout can expect to earn an annual income of $20,241, according to the U.S. Census Bureau (PDF). That’s a full $10,386 less than the typical high school graduate, and $36,424 less than someone with a bachelor’s degree.”(Breslow,