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  2. Single-parent children and educational attainment - Wikipedia

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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]

  3. 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.

  4. Childhood in literature - Wikipedia

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    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

  5. I didn't like 'Gilmore Girls' until I was a single mom ... - AOL

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    As a young single mom adjusting to parenting alone, I could suddenly see myself in Lorelai. As I kept watching, I found "Gilmore Girls" felt like the guide to navigating motherhood on my own ...

  6. Kibbutz communal child rearing and collective education

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    The group that was formed during the kindergarten years moved next together with their nanny to the children's society, where they would get a teacher as well. The children's society was composed of the age groups of children from the first or second grade to the sixth grade. Teachers were considered "educators", some of them women and some men.

  7. Brown Girl Dreaming - Wikipedia

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    It tells the story of the author’s early childhood life growing up as an African American girl in the 1960’s and depicts the events that led her to become a writer. The book has been considered one of the exemplary pieces of modern children’s literature by critics who have analyzed the book and has gained positive reception.

  8. Original Stories from Real Life - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. Charles (short story) - Wikipedia

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    "Charles" is a short story by Shirley Jackson, first published in Mademoiselle in July 1948. It was later included in her 1949 collection, The Lottery and Other Stories, and her 1953 novel, Life Among the Savages.