Word: parented
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While feminists and many of their liberal allies portray single motherhood as a fully viable and acceptable alternative to the two-parent family, the facts tell a strikingly different story. A study done by the National Center for Health Statistics in 1988 found that children in single-parent families are far more likely to drop out of high school, get pregnant as teenagers, use drugs, and break the law than their counterparts in two-parent households...
Even worse, children from single-parent families are more likely to end up as single-parents themselves, thereby extending the vicious legacy of illegitimacy to another generation. In addition, the growing number of single-parent households only makes it more difficult for the welfare system to achieve its goal of ending poverty. The best way to end poverty is to ensure that America's poor are able to find jobs so that they can support their families without government assistance, yet the widespread existence of single-parent households makes this nearly impossible...
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...tell her that good doesn't rhyme with either food or blood. But passion, not precision, is her forte. Her soul-felt songs are the cries of a woman who lives with pain and learns from it. In the set's sweetest anthem, she sings, "So be your own parent/ And treat yourself good/ It's never too late/ To have a happy childhood." As the lifers and loners in Chapman's audience know, the good times have got to start sometime...
Coles views the transmittance of inner strength from parent to child as a form of human survival...