Single Moms In Poverty

In a long term effect, rates of school dropouts and teen parents are increasing. Children with single-moms experience the problems of growing up due to poverty. In the article”U.S children in Single-mother Families”, Mark Mather, PH.D writes there are big risks for children who grow up in single-parent household are to drop out of school and become parents under 18 years old. This kinds of children are more likely to give up their academic achievement. Because they grow up in a single family, they are lack of education from parents and school. They tend to get into society, but they do not have the enough experience of knowledge and more easily affected by their peers. Worse, they are still young, and they start to become teen parents because

According to the article “4 Ways the US Keeps Single Moms in Poverty – And What We Can Do About It” by Ellen Friedrichs, childcare are a big numbers fees for every single-mom families with children, and people spend on the childcare costs much more than the costs of food, shelters and clothes. The expenses of healthy child care also continue to go up. I even can imagine how difficult single-mothers can reach the basic level of lives. What would it mean for them? In indeed, they could never resolve the problems of poverty, and the problems will only get worse. Comparing to another solution, raising the low minimum wages is a fundamental and feasible stratagem to overcome the difficulties of single-mothers with their children from now on. At least, single-mothers have the economic sources and assistances to support their lives. Although giving more childcare benefits are a good beginning to help poor families, it is not enough to help poor people at all. To reduce or put an end to this serious problem, we and the government, as stakeholders, must take more time to improve and revise a better law to create a win-win situation. If this two protagonists are not willing to cooperate with each other, nothing changes. Things may get