Child support in the United States

families in the United States has started to become more recurrent than the traditional nuclear family. This is due to the sudden increase in premarital sex, divorce, and death. Life in these single parent households can be immensely strenuous for both the parent and their children. These families often face many challenges such as the difficulty of a single paycheck and less time to form proper relationships with the children. The most prevalent single parent families in the United States can…

Minimum wage is a hot topic in the United States currently, and both sides are equally important. Making sure that people living here are above the poverty line is necessary, but keeping the nation from going bankrupt is also crucial. The positives to raising minimum wage are financial security for families, less worker exploitation and under employment, and it would reduce crime significantly. More than 45 million people in the United States alone, are below the poverty line, which means…

EQUAL EDUCATION? Yes! All kids living in the United States have the right to a free public education. And the Constitution requires that all kids be given equal educational opportunity no matter what their race, ethnic background, religion, or sex, or whether they are rich or poor, citizen or non-citizen. Even if you are in this country illegally, you have the right to go to public school.” "The 14th Amendment to the Constitution [...] forbids states [...] to "deny to any person within its…

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 can be quite…

Children At any given moment during the past two weeks, endless reports of child abuse as well domestic violence flooded the popular press. From the newspaper article on the NFL player knocking his girlfriend unconscious in a brutal assault to the ABC News report on the NFL player beating his four year old son with a “switch” to the point of drawing blood and leaving scars to the early morning news broadcast of the child abuse and heart-breaking death of two year old Colton Turner of…

to a new country was a mistake. In Jhumpa Lahiri 's The Namesake, Ashima Ganguli, an immigrant to America from Calcutta, struggles with alienation to adjust to the new American culture. Ashima, along with her husband, Ashoke, have moved to the United States, as there are numerous opportunities for him. As an immigrant, Ashima is unable to speak English fluently, and unlike Ashoke, she is unable to quickly adapt to the new American culture. While being a mother of two children, Gogol and Sonia,…

Legalization of Marijuana in the United States Marijuana, Mary Jane, reefer, pot, weed, cannabis whatever term you use marijuana is a hot topic in the United States. We have seen numerous movements to implement marijuana reform policy in the U.S. “With 25 states and Washington D.C. having laws legalizing marijuana in some form” (State Marijuana Laws in 2016 Map). Oregon, Washington, Alaska, Colorado, and Washington D.C. have laws allowing recreational use of cannabis. Most Recently…

pregnancy with Roberto causing a difficult delivery and severe hemorrhage and psychological problems. Roberto was born in the United States into a family where the father is absent and the mother suffers from chronic stress. The family currently rents…

people’s philosophies and religion. A significant part of the population, called prolife, consider abortion as murdering a living child and hence, are against abortion. Another group of people, called prochoice, believe that the parents, particularly women, have the choice to do anything with their body and entertain the right to decide whether or not to keep the child. They may not necessarily be against abortion, but they believe that abortion is an equally morally right option for women. The…

president of the United States. The Bill of Rights was created September 25, 1789 but wasn’t officially ratified until December 15, 1791. It is a treasured document that holds the rights of the American people. The Constitution did not really protect the civil rights of the people and so James Madison invented the Bill of Rights. One out of the ten amendments that stood out was the Tenth Amendment which states “Rights not labeled under the federal government belong to the state governments or…