When you think about your family history and how far you can follow your family history back to the first time they arrived in the U.S you would be pretty amazed. When I start back to my family history on both of my parents side I can go as far back as my great-great grandparents on both sides. On my mom side her great grandmother was from a Caribbean island she later came to the U.S. because of my great-great grandfather wanted to live in Mississippi to work there to earn more money. Later my great grandfather and grandmother moved to Grand Rapids, Michigan with my grandfather who was from Michigan. My grandfather parents lived in the south when he was younger. But my grandfather’s great-great grandparents where slaves who were run a ways …show more content…
The other parenting style my mother also displayed was the authoritative style. For example she would ever so often she would tuck me in bed and read me bed time stories or other times she would watch TV shows or movies with me until I went to sleep at night. Even though I didn’t get both sides of parenting g from to different people I feel like my mother did the best job in her power. I feel like my mom was in the hard situation because she is a woman raising a young son all by her self-trying to teach me how to be a man. But also at times it was hard for because I would do little things such as get in fights in school or would do something so crazy. So I know for her as women she couldn’t really understand what I was doing. I feel like she played such a good mother and father that I will pick up some of here parenting styles.Growing up I was raised in a single parenting household with just me and my mom in the house. Being raised in a single parent house there are some pros and cons that come from being raised this way. My mom and dad like I said before never married the reason …show more content…
But my mom always had help from people around her that help raised me. I felt like the saying it takes a village to raise a child really fit my life. The reason being because if my mom couldn’t teach me something or come to my game, so her coworkers would I remember in high school it was so hard for her to come to my basketball games that people from her job would go and text her and tell her how I was doing in the game. Coming from this type of house hold and seeing how it was hard for my mom without a another parent in the house that I will try and not continue the cycle of not being there for my kids and their mother cause I feel like my mom would be upset if I’m not there for my kids.In some single parent households the sex talk can go smoothly and some can be very awkward especially since it was coming from my mom. When she gave me the sex talk it wasn’t awkward at all because she waited for me to get a certain age to really get in depth about sex. When I was nine I can remember my mom saying when you get older makes sure you wear condoms. She told me what it was for and when is the right time to do it and how I should go about it when it does come down to that time. She basically told me the basics of what to
Having grown up in a single parent home that was terribly dysfunctional, I can give firsthand accounts of what this type of environment was like. I can remember growing up with a strong mother who refused to show weakness. Which in hindsight, was not good at all for me in the long run. It led me to become very distant and uncaring towards others that I came in contact with. In some instances I now realize I was over compensating in relationships based upon the dysfunction in my single parent home life.
Most family trees do not connect back to the eras when slavery was in practice, and if they do reach that far, most trees would be incomplete. Additionally, there are no black slaves living today. Slavery ended more than 160 years ago at the cost of several hundred thousand lives lost in the Civil War. It is unfair to ask American taxpayers, many of them from families that came to the United States after slavery ended, to pay for the wrongs of slavery. The article by Hawkins further explains this point when he states, “Who would receive reparations?
I have always grown up around the influence of hard work. My mother and father’s life together began off to a rough start. My mother got pregnant at the age of 20 with my brother. Her family was not very supportive of it; therefore, she was on her own. She used to tell me about how she would sit and cry in a one bedroom apartment that she lived in with my brother wondering what she was going to do. Although she had to grow up faster than she
I was raised by my mother and grandmother. They kept my head leveled and taught me that working hard leads to success. I loved them, and they were my role models. I grew up in a middle class family with strong women. I learned independence, and the strong will to never give up. It was the summer of 2005 when my mother re-married, and I was in the eighth grade. My mother was happy because she found the conclusion to her life: a husband. I was ecstatic because I finally had a daddy! My hopes, wishes, and dreams had come true. I felt that God answered my prayers. I loved having a father figure, although I had certain doubts. My uncertainty came from the way he looked at me. He looked at me the way men crave women. However, I concealed my unclear feelings because I did not want to ruin the current circumstances. Unfortunately, all of my suspicions were true.
“Ninety percent of single-parent families are headed by females. Not surprisingly, single mothers with dependent children have the highest rate of poverty across all demographic groups” (Olson & Banyard, 1993, p. 50-56). “Approximately 60 percent of U.S. children living in mother-only families are impoverished, compared with only 11 percent of two-parent families. The rate of poverty is even higher in African-American single-parent families, in which two out of every three children are poor” (Kirby, n.d., Single-parent Families in Poverty section, para.2).
When watching the movie “Finding Your Roots” you get a deeper understanding of what life was like during slavery years and how people lived their lives. But not only do you get a deeper feel for what it was like for the people, you also think about how your own family lives were at the time on slavery. We think we have an idea of what the slavery days was like for our ancestors and have a general thought process about timeline of events. Many of our ancestors have made the way for us to live our lives with freedom and to be treated as human. We know our families were once sold and used as property and not people. But do we actually know about the era that profound our lives today and the roots we come from?
Single Parent Struggle For many years, children growing up in a single parent family have been viewed as different. Being raised by only one parent seems impossible to many yet over the decades it has become more prevalent. In today’s society many children have grown up to become emotionally stable and successful whether they had one or two parents to show them the rocky path that life bestows upon all human beings. The problem lies in the difference of children raised by single parents versus children raised by both a mother and a father.
My mother has taught me early on that women can do anything men can do, but then again, she also never worked a day in her life. My father was always the strong hard working dad, he was a great example to my brother who is 2 years younger than me. My mother never really had a drive like the one I have in me, I strive for success for my four children and well she was always laid in bed demanding things from her bedside. What I remember about my childhood is how she would teach us how to clean and cook. My sisters and I would have to wake up every day before school just to clean the house and make breakfast, she taught us early on how to make tortillas, but the handmade ones because she would say that store bought were for lazy people.
The Family structure has changed significantly in the last fifty years. With higher percentages of marriage ending in divorce, and higher rates of childbearing out of wedlock, single parent families are increasing rapidly. “Seventy percent of all the children will spend all or part of their lives in a single-parent household.” (Dowd) Studies have shown that the children of these families are affected dramatically, both negatively and positively. Women head the majority of single- parent families and as a result, children experience many social problems from growing up without a father. Some of these problems include lack of financial support, and various emotional problems by not having a father around, which may contribute to problems later in life. At the same time, children of single-parent homes become more independent because they learn to take care of themselves, and rely on others to do things for them.
Raising a girl as a single father may be comparable to learning a foreign language—you may feel totally baffled for a while before you finally start to get a hang of it. Despite the challenges, being a single parent to your daughter may be one of the most rewarding jobs you ever take on. Learn to raise a girl as a single father by developing a relationship with your daughter and getting support. It can also help to develop a game-plan for running a household on your own, too.
ago mothers would stay at home with their children while the father went to work
If my Mom did not give in to my requests I would just throw a simple temper tantrum and five minutes later victory would be mine. On the other hand, when my dad was around, everything was to be done his way. If he didn’t think I needed it, I would not get it, no matter how much complaining and whining. In my Dads mind I had to deserve everything I received, if I did something wrong a couple days earlier he would remind me about it as I was asking for a bike or whatever else it is I wanted. Don’t get me wrong, my dad wasn’t a mean guy or an abusive father, I knew my limits and when I would get dumb enough to cross that line, he was right there to put me back in my place.
There are two sides to a person’s family and one side of my family has been traced all the way back to slavery. My father’s side of the family originally came from a Georgia plantation. Although my father is Afro-American, his great-great-grandfather was a general who owned slaves. From Georgia my father moved to New Jersey. After settling in New Jersey, my father enlisted in the military and began his life as a military man. My mother’s side of the family is all from Puerto Rico. My grandparents moved my mother and her sister to America when they were very young. They moved to Macedonia, Illinois. When my mother got older she too enlisted in the military as a nurse. My mother met my father while they were both serving in the military in Germany. After they both finished their time in the military, my mother mov...
Single parenting is probably the toughest thing to do. I was 15-years-old when I met my daughter’s father. We met in Middle School, and we were in a relationship for 5 years. I had our daughter when I was a 19-year old senior in High school. My daughter’s father and I made the mutual decision to part ways due to a lot of complications in our relationship. Throughout the years, we’ve had many ups and downs. Our relationship was a roller coaster. My daughter’s father is still very much in her life, and we try our best to co-parent, but even though we co-parent, it is still very hard to do things on my own. Single parenting gets difficult at times and I never thought I’d be ‘one of those girls’ who has to do something like parenting alone, but here I am doing it, and there’s no other way I’d have it. I’m happy to be the mother of a very beautiful smart 3-year-old. I’m happy to be faced with challenges that have me pushing to do better and be better, as single mother.
“There's a cultural bias against single parents; an assumption that these households are less than, incomplete, and children suffer as a consequence.” says Patricia Leavy, PhD Author of Blue and Method Meets Art Second Edition (A Conversation about Single Parenting: Challenging the Stereotypes,2016)