The Feminist views the family by focusing on the experiences the women goes through in the family. ... Single-parent households form from high divorce rates, and female-headed households form from the high divorce rate and the high rate of women having children out of wedlock, especially teenagers. ... Many African-American women and teenagers are not provided with the resources to educate themselves on how having children out of wedlock will affect their lives, and as a result, they fall under the poverty line; many of them never come out of poverty. ... No matter where we go, African-Am...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Arranged marriages are set up in various ways and are frowned on because the youth are not given the opportunity to find their own potential life partners but rather have to go by what their parents have chosen for them. In some extreme cases, teenagers are forced put their education to a halt and get married at such young ages. ... Generally it is most teenagers' dream to have a successful future while married to someone they have gotten to know, feel they are compatible with, and most essentially, g...

• Word Count: 1202
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Rosa tells how she moved away from the island to New York City as a teenager and returned to the island only after the death of her mother, and only to claim the house which her mother had left to her. As a teenager, Rosa gave birth to her only daughter, an illegitimate child of a married man with five other children, as she tired of waiting for the man to join her in New York, she decided to take a job in a factory, and became very close to yet another man. ... Rosa never completes her story because Guzman becomes extremely sleepy and goes to bed, however, one can only draw the final conclusi...

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Many gay couples like Rosie and Kelli are now trying to find causes to stop everything that is going on with society and the issue of gay marriages. ... Statistics show that 45% of gay males, and 20% of lesbians experience physical or verbal assault while in high school, and 28% of these teenagers feel forced to drop out of school because of harassment about their sexual orientation. ... Same sex marriages go against all society has learned from right and wrong and against many religions in the world. ...

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The majority of students follow their friends' footstep or go with their parents' decisions, and these students refuse to analyze their strengths or weaknesses before choosing a course. ... They travel to the third world countries to educate children, and teach skills to adults and teenagers in order to survive. ... Generosity with our wealth is an important element of success, but improving the society goes beyond wealth, especially when there is no money to share. ...

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Children going through the trauma of a family breaking apart are not abnormal or disturbed, they are just responding to their age and to some maturity at the time of the divorce. ... Teenagers possess more of an understanding of divorce in cognitive terms but are immature emotionally. ...

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Children who have an even, easy going temperament and those who respond well to stressful events generally go through a divorce without mal effects (McIntosh et al, 2008). ... Other studies have shown that children of divorced families are more likely to use alcohol, cigarettes and drugs, more likely to begin sexual activity earlier, to give birth to a child as a teenager, and to have more pregnancies outside marriage than children of non-divorced parents (McIntosh et al, 2008). ...

• Word Count: 1376
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate