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Linda Gordon's Single Mothers and the History of Welfare - Pitied But Not Entitled

professionals were at best ambivalent on the question of whether women, married or unmarried, should be full-time mothers or peopl...

Bernard Gordon's 'Elia Kazan: Hero or Coward?'

were refusing to speak. They were not going to name any names of people who may have been, or were, communist sympathizers or comm...

Impact of Mom-Only Families

The literature is finally taking into consideration family structure and family dynamics when comparing the outcomes of children l...

Single Black Mothers

communities where young women find themselves with child. Nationally, 69 % ("Detroits," 2002, p.PG) of births in the black communi...

Single Mothers and the Benefits of Welfare

nurturers. At the time, AFDC benefits were maintained at a low level, causing some observers to speculate that one reason was to c...

Social Workers, Single Mothers, and Welfare

truth in both concepts, however, the welfare mother as a worker is truly a problem of psychological and social dynamics of which i...

AFDC and Welfare Reform Issues

Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) were the product of relationships that never culminated in marriage, while only 30 percent...

Florida's Single Mothers, Low Wages, and Welfare

In seven pages this paper discusses the plight of single mothers in Florida who wish to leave the welfare roster and obtain employ...

Poverty and Single Mothers

In five pages a book review article by Judith Stacey entitled 'Through My Own Eyes: Single Mothers and the Cultures of Poverty' is...

Kim Chernin's In My Mother's House

shtetl, the Jewish ghetto, had become unbearable under Tsarist rule. Chernin recognized that the women of her family had an abund...

Linda Gordon's 'The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction'

they packed up the children and set off on a very long trip out West. Consider that in 1904 the only mode of transportation woul...

Evolution of Assistance to the Needy

The history of human services and social welfare in the United States began long before the federal government stepped into the pi...

Afghanistan National Development Strategy (ANDS)

Security; Governance Rule of Law & Human Rights; Infrastructure & Natural Resources; Education; Health; Agriculture & Rural Develo...

McWhorter/Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue

Another feature that is unique to English is the way in which English uses the that "-ing thing" (McWhorter 2). In English, the pr...

Making Ends Meet How Single Mothers Survive Welfare and Low Wage Work by Edin and Lein

an extensive study by Kathryn Edin and Laura Lein, however, the researchers discovered in their nearly 400 interviews with welfare...

"Mother To Son" - Reader Response Criticism

Hughes mother who says "So, boy, dont you turn back. Dont you set down on the steps. Cause you finds its kinder hard," mine was ...

The United States - A Reluctant Welfare State

the challenge of numerous social problems throughout its history (Jansson, 2000). During the colonial period, indentured servants ...

Supervision In The Workplace: Teamwork And Communication

and teamwork. For the most part, the concept of business communication - when implemented correctly - can be the difference betwe...

Educational Effects of Single Parenthood

Case Study In order to assess the impact that single motherhood has on education of children who are a part of such a family mode...

Endometrial Cancer: Overview, Patient Assessment And Educational Plan

focusing equally upon causes and prevention as it is upon treatment and sustained recovery (Feig et al, 2006). Also known as uter...

Ethics of Having Septuplets Via Fertility Drugs

In five pages this paper examines the practice of taking fertility drugs in a consideration of whether or not this is fair or ethi...

Bell Curve Propositions Defense

in a the National Longitudinal Study of Youth (NLSY), an ongoing federal project that tested over 10,0000 US citizens in 1980, wit...

Sociological Issues Regarding Primary versus Secondary Child Care and Working, Single Mothers

In six pages this paper examines the shift from primary to secondary child care necessitated by working mothers in society, with m...

Aurora P. Jackson and Richard Scheines' Single Mothers

have added this element unnecessarily if they are simply looking at employment and the efficacy of the mothers. It would perhaps h...

Critical Thinking Questions and Argument Techniques

To date there has been no argument that sinks in with her, and we are nearly to the point of giving up. My own inability to criti...

Single Mother's Economic Struggles

my divorce are better understood in relation the traditional concept of a nuclear family. The term "nuclear family" brings to min...

Happy and Biff Loman in Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

In five pages the sons of Willy Loman are examined in terms of their contrasting relationships with their father, their mother Lin...

Four Poems on Grief

focuses on four poems that all deal with grief. In "Stairway to Heaven" by Joaquin G. Rubio; "Dont Forget About Me!" by Jenny Gord...

Childhood and Child Welfare in the Progressive Era by James Marten

This book review is on James Marten's Childhood and Child Welfare in the Progressive Era: A brief history with documents. The over...

Happiness Perspectives of Langdon Gilkey and Mary Gordon

She realizes that she will have to "invent an existence for myself" (Gordon 5). Isabel falls in love with a married man, and event...