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Another link between students with low educational attainment later becoming single parents has also been explored, [1] with high achievers being almost two-thirds less likely to become a single parent. Children lacking a mother figure are at greater risk academically than those lacking a father figure. [6]
The Romantic Child: children portrayed as being more virtuous and insightful than adults and embodying innocence. The Sinful Child: often depicts child as being corrupted by original sin often used to exemplify cultural and personal fears The Working Child: depicts children as economically valuable and offering practical utility
A single parent is a person who has a child or children but does not have a spouse or live-in partner to assist in the upbringing or support of the child. Reasons for becoming a single parent include death , divorce , break-up , abandonment , becoming widowed , domestic violence , rape , childbirth by a single person or single-person adoption.
Cottage. The setting of the story is a cottage in Augusta, GA, before the Civil War.The two main characters, Rosalie, a "quadroon", and her husband Edward, a "Georgian," are living together in "a marriage sanctioned by Heaven, though unrecognized on earth" [5] Rosalie, as a partly African-American woman, cannot legally marry a White man, but they live together as if they are man and wife, and ...
Some mothers, especially in relatively wealthy countries, overeat and spend too much time resting. Other mothers, especially if they are poor or abused, may be overworked and may not be able to eat enough, or may not be able to afford healthful foods with sufficient iron, vitamins, and protein, for the unborn child to develop properly.
Unlike their illiterate mother, Kady and her sister have high school educations. Kady is the mother of an infant son, Danny, sired by her former lover Wash Blount, son of the wealthy mine owner. The elder Blounts have disowned Kady and the child because she is of the Tyler clan. Demoralized, Kady has in turn left the child with her mother and ...
Title page from the first edition of Original Stories (1788). Original Stories from Real Life; with Conversations Calculated to Regulate the Affections, and Form the Mind to Truth and Goodness is the only complete work of children's literature by the 18th-century English feminist author Mary Wollstonecraft.
The death of a mother during pregnancy, childbirth or immediately afterwards is a tragic event. The chances of a child surviving such an extreme birth are compromised. [1] In literature, the death of a new mother is a powerful device: it removes one character and places the surviving child into an often hostile environment which has to be overcome.