Deadbeat parent

Edin and Kefalas Trump Horn Single parent families are becoming more and more common across the nation. Author Wade F. Horn captures the heart of the matter with alarming statistics in his article “Promoting Marriage as a Means for Promoting Fatherhood,” while Kathryn Edin and Maria Kefalas look at the issue first hand by interviewing various single mothers in their article “Unmarried with Children.” Although Horn, as well as Edin and Kefalas effectively convince readers of their views by using logos, pathos, and ethos, Edin and Kefalas create an argument that is more successful. Both authors use logos, or logic, as a means of providing evidence to support their claims, but Edin and Kefalas give more compelling evidence. For example, Edin and…

Parenting is arguably the toughest job. In his film, Boyhood, Richard Linklater uses a variety of parental tropes including the deadbeat parent, the angry drunk, the strict conservative, and the consistent parent. Mason Sr., the deadbeat, abandons the mother of his children for many years before coming back to be in their lives. Bill Welbrock, Olivia’s first husband, is the rich college professor who turns out to be an alcoholic who takes his anger out on his family. Jim, Olivia’s second…

payment method made by the non-custodial parent to the second parent for the better benefit of the child or children. In the state of Tennessee, more often than not, custody automatically goes straight to the mother it seems. Personally, fathers get the short end of the stick when it comes to raising their children after the papers have been filed from personal experience with my own father and our family. Overall, looking into the child support system fathers should not be held accountable for…

thus labeling him as a deadbeat dad. Men are also at a disadvantage for the fact that the woman can also tell him he is the father of a child when indeed he is not. A woman can make a man look like a deadbeat dad when he has tried his hardest to be a part of his child's life. Husbands and fathers are important in families because it impacts a child's feeling of stability, a father could save his childs life in case of illness and father doesn't necessarily have to share DNA with his child.…

Deadbeat, good-for-nothing, and nowhere to be found often describe the plight and resentment towards those whom are considered unfit in parenting. Single parents have an even tougher dilemma raising their children bearing only half the love, half the support and half the attention a traditional couple could offer. However, not everyone shares the same tune as individuals like Armin Brott champion the potential of single parents (more specifically the single dad). Even with a stable nuclear…

have today. Now that my family has become so dysfunctional, after the abandonment by my father, I’ve just been asking God to direct my life so I’m not submerged in my mother and father’s wake. I don’t entirely blame my mother for my little excitement; the blame goes to my deadbeat father. Though I didn’t always think of my dad as a deadbeat, I now see him as being the problem. He has caused my mother to take most of their marriage problems out on me. I know many say parents should not involve…

As Carlson (2006) expresses, when fathers live away from their children, financial support diminishes. Research proves that nonresident fathers contribute fewer economic resources than resident fathers to their children (Carlson, 2006). Empirical evidence confirmed, Sorensen (1997) that many fathers who are able to pay child support choose not to, the so called “deadbeat dads”, denying their children much needed income. Studies involving nonresident fathers found that of the ones who pay child…

thoughts on Westerners parenting, though, one thing they don’t think about is cultural differences. Amy Chua, a professor at Yale Law School, wrote an article focusing on chinese parenting. SHe uses the term “chinese parenting” lightly, because she knows of many other parents that are of different nationalities that qualify in this parenting category as well. In this writing, Amy talks about chinese parenting and the differences between it and western parenting. The usual thing western parents…

Jeannette Walls, a once low class, immature child blossomed into an amazing woman and journalist. While her parents fail to provide some of the simplest needs for her and her siblings, instead of letting it get to her and giving up, she makes the choice to face her problems and even learned to grow from them. Although her family held her back from many opportunities, Jeannette still kept trying her best to become a better person as she grew up. While trying to find herself in an unorthodox,…

used car to drive around. There was three vehicles in our household and not one could be for my use on a daily basis. A list of options scrolled in my head: my father would let me use his vehicle and ride with my mother each day, I would still ride the bus to school and use a vehicle when I needed to, share my sister's car, or buy my own vehicle. I wondered how on Earth I could afford a vehicle for myself and knew a busy schedule like mine would shape it extremely difficult to work. Talking with…