Income Inequality: It’s Effect on African-American Single Mothers and Their Children

Income Inequality: It’s Effect on African-American Single Mothers and Their Children.

I believe that it’s not fair for single mothers to get paid less, when some of them are the back bones of this country. Currently the minimum wage, in the United States, is set to 8$ per hour. Women in general are only paid 77%, so it is appropriate to assume that through mathematics, women get a wage as high as $6.16. African-American women only get paid 64% of every dollar a man makes. If the minimum wage is only $8 an hour, we find out that African-American women only get a maximum wage of $5.12 an hour. Income inequality is not fair to the mothers who have kids to raise by themselves. Single mothers have no spouse or any other fixed income to help. 4.1million households in the world are single mother households, and out of that 4.1million, 72 percent of all black children in the world are raised in single mother households. The payment inequality has a huge effect on single mothers, especially African-American women.

This social issue goes along with women’s equality and women’s suffrage. “In 1963 women only made 59% of what a man made, in the early 1960’s job advertisement was listed by sex” (“Everything You Need to Know about the Equal Pay Act” 3) Yet citizens of the U.S. and other countries still get paid less because of gender, age, and ethnicity. When it comes to being discriminated against weather it is by age, gender, ethnicity or any reason it’s wrong. I strongly believe that the payment inequality is not fair for African-American women and their kids. Most of single mothers don’t have any other fixed income or finances to help them raise their kids by themselves. Growing up watching different women in my family, I am familiar wit...

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Single parent homes provide clear communication between the parent and the child. Communication is something that has to be developed between one person to the other person. It really helps, because it gets children use to being told no. Also it gets children to think of other ways to compromise using their mouths instead of resulting to violence. It allows for a clear understanding between two people. In Publisher Carl E. Pickhardt, PhD’s article “Why Single Parents Can Parent Adolescents Well” he writes, “With much t talk about and less time to talk, busyness causes single parents to speak directly and to the point, not hesitating to speak up when difficult issues need to be addressed, and treating conflict not as a challenge to their authority, but as a talking point.” (Pickhardt 6).