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  2. Fred R. Shapiro - Wikipedia

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    Shapiro has published numerous articles on language, law, and information science, including "The Politically Correct United States Supreme Court and the Motherfucking Texas Court of Appeals: Using Legal Databases to Trace the Origins of Words and Quotations" [2] and "Who Wrote the Serenity Prayer". [3]

  3. Single parents in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Single parents in the United States have become more common since the second half of the 20th century. In the United States, since the 1960s, there has been an increase in the number of children living with a single parent. The jump was caused by an increase in births to unmarried women and by the increasing prevalence of divorces among couples.

  4. Serenity Prayer - Wikipedia

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    A version of the Serenity prayer appearing on an Alcoholics Anonymous medallion (date unknown).. The Serenity Prayer is an invocation by the petitioner for wisdom to understand the difference between circumstances ("things") that can and cannot be changed, asking courage to take action in the case of the former, and serenity to accept in the case of the latter.

  5. Ohio teaches that children born to unmarried parents are ...

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    In Ohio, 42.6% of children are born to unmarried parents and more than one-third of children live with one parent. Besides a phone call and a letter, there are no practical consequences for not ...

  6. Family in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The percentage of single-parent households has doubled in the last three decades, but that percentage tripled between 1900 and 1950. [9] The sense of marriage as a "permanent" institution has been weakened, allowing individuals to consider leaving marriages more readily than they may have in the past. [10] Increasingly, single-parent families ...

  7. Single-parent children and educational attainment - Wikipedia

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    This information can help educators understand how to engage and support single-parent pupils, fostering an inclusive and supportive learning environment, as well as assisting single parents in adopting healthy parenting techniques. Future socioeconomic opportunities are largely influenced by educational attainment.

  8. Single parent - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. African-American family structure - Wikipedia

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    These numbers increased for single-parent homes, with 26.6% of all single-parent families living in poverty, [88] 22.5% of all white single-parent people, [89] 44.0% of all single-parent black people, [90] and 33.4% of all single-parent Hispanic people [91] living in poverty.