In this case we focus on young men because research strongly suggests that the absence of a father impacts young men far more than it does young women (Elium 12). ... James Dobson, president of the non-profit group Focus on the Family, has concluded that boys have a much more difficult time dealing with the absence of a father and are four times as likely to need treatment for emotional problems as boys who have a father. ... But the research focus here is on the success of single fathers raising children by themselves. ...

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Currently, the number of youth in foster care who have children in California, either as custodial or non-custodial parents, is unknown. ... A key element of this plan is ensuring timely referrals to prenatal care, which currently does not occur. ... Currently, we cannot answer the most basic questions, such as how many parenting youth are in foster care or how many of their children have been removed and placed into foster care. ... President Obama's proposal would for the first time focus federal funding specifically on preventing foster teens from getting pregnant. ...

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Alzheimer's Disease is relentlessly destroying the brains and lives of our nation's older adults, robbing them of memory, the ability to reason, and affecting their emotions and behavior. Alzheimer's Disease is a degenerative disorder of the brain. The longer we live the greater the risk; "nearly 10 percent of all people over age 65 and up to half of those over age 85 are thought to have Alzheimer's Disease or another form of dementia" (Anonymous, 2002). The devastation of Alzheimer's Disease affects millions of families in the United States. Alzheimer's Disease c...

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I grew older and wiser and I took those opinions and began to form my own opinions based off of prior beliefs, and realized how I really felt about the current events that was a daily issue being discussed nationally. ... A majority of her comments focus solely around how conflicted the world is, and how Obama is portrayed as the bad guy, making bad decisions for most of the time. ...

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Part I The social problem I am drawn to explore and discuss is one parent families. Having been raised by a single mother and landing in a position now of being a single mother to twins, I have a lot of interest with this topic. One parent families are becoming more common than the nuclear family th...

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What is the American family? This question was answered by John de Crevecoeur, in "what is the American?" (1782), when he said: "I could point out to you a family whose grandfather was an Englishman, whose wife was Dutch, whose son married a French woman, and whose present four sons have four wives ...

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