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Who has time to run all over town taking compassionate of errands and making daily purchases? Not many single parents I experience do. Over the years. I've learned how to take advantage of being able to put things on hold make reservations and call ahead whenever possible. It saves measure and headaches and makes it less likely that I'll get stuck running behind schedule. Here are some big single parent lifesavers: If your library has a web place where you can search for books videos. DVDs etc and the place them on reserve-use it. I live in a moderate-sized city and I can look up schedule titles movies etc on line and then reserve them-whether they are currently on direct or on the library shelves. The library workers then displace the items and put them on a shelf alphabetized with my label on them and I get an automated label from the library. Instead of spending an hour searching for what I need. I can search online in my pajamas and then just stop by and pick it up. More and more pharmacies grocery stores and other sell establishments are offering reservations and online purchases. Consider shopping some place that has a web site or the ability to order online and choose up in person. You save measure and on shipping charges if you can get the shopping done from domiciliate and pick things up on your way by. Even if you end to get take-out for a weeknight dinner believe calling ahead and placing your request before you leave bring home the bacon or home-most places ordain let you tell THEM what time you will be by to pick it up so you can call before heading out to a soccer game or school function and pick up your order later on the way domiciliate. You might be surprised how many opportunities there are for you to call ahead put things on direct and alter reservations. If you're a single parent and still doing everything the "old fashioned way"-you could deliver a ton of time with a little planning ahead. "Of course dating in many countries is not the most common term in areas of the UK we comfort see people using terms like "courting". "going out with". "stepping out with" or "seeing"." "You experience online dating on the web is generally extremely safe especially friendly and great fun and Top Dating Tips com is committed to ensuring that it stays that way."

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Let go of grudges you may hold against your child’s other parent who is absent from BOTH of your lives. Holding onto feelings of anger will not change your situation and will probably consume a great deal of your energy - energy you need to devote to creating a positive environment for your child. If you dwell on your disappointment with and/or dislike of the father or mother of your child - chances are your child will sense your feelings and suffer in some way from your negative attitude. Even if you do not have a lot of money you do have your child and your love and your time to give to him or her. Try to remember that monetary wealth and material possessions are not the most important items in your child’s life. Your love support and time together mean much more to them. You can have fun for free. Activities like - going for a walk or a bike ride playing at the park coloring painting singing or dancing - will thrill your child just as much as spending money to go to an amusement park an arcade or a toy store. Give as much as you can without setting goals that are unrealistic for one parent to achieve. Don’t beat yourself up for what cannot be. Do recognize what you can do to create a good life for your child to the best of your abilities. Surround yourself and your child with friends you know and trust - people who care about both of you. “Aunts” and “Uncles” and even “Grandparents,” who are not blood-related can be just as beneficial to your child as actual biological family members. The “family” you create for your child can provide him or her with the same kind of love and support as a traditional family. They can also help you with your responsibilities as a single parent. Let them play an active role in your child’s life. Learn to turn to your “family” when you need a break. Nobody should have to go it alone and you will probably be able to be a better parent by relying on your “family” of close friends to support you and your child. Remember whatever lead you to where you are today you are responsible for another life - the innocent life of a child who didn’t ask to be born. Your child is not responsible for the experiences or events that made you become a single parent. Your child is completely dependent upon you through no choice of their own. Don’t let them down or hold them accountable for your actions (or the actions of their absent parent). They are powerless and vulnerable to the possibly less-than-ideal consequences they face as the child of a single parent. Your role and influence in their life is paramount to their chances of becoming a happy productive successful adult. They need you more than their words will ever tell. Your child needs stability and security. One way to provide this is by developing a daily routine. Simple things like - going to the park every Sunday afternoon eating dinner together each night sharing a treat before nap time or reading a book together before bed every night will become activities that your child looks forward to and can count on to occur with regularity. Create realistic rules and a standard of discipline that you stick to all the time. If you’re consistent with your child he or she will learn what is acceptable behavior and what is not. They will also learn what you expect from them and what they can expect from you. If you’re dependable they will know that they can always count on you to help them with their homework be there for dinner or tuck them in bed at night. They have to be able to depend on you. You’re the most important person in their life. Try to remember that no matter how tired you are at the end of the day or how frustrated you may become when they’re fussy - They need you to be there for them. You should cherish every moment with your child - they are the best blessings on earth okay this episode was lame. we talked through the whole thing (hits the recap is just now being made. lol. blame school.)nehoo.. SO these girls found out Lisa was sending them to NEW YORK lucky girls (jealous) . and off they go to talk over the show in L. A. SO. Lauren is off toNov 1 2007 - 2:44pm 2 Comments 1,369 Views Tonight my little sister had a seizure and calapsed at work after throwing up twice. She was taken into Celebration Hospital. She is going through x-rays and catscans. She apparently bumped her head very hard on the tile when she callapsed. Her neck won't move and when i got the call I was at work. Oct 23 2007 - 8:02pm 2 Comments 889 Views

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The reality of my single parent family is that my children's create does not always show the greatest of respect for me. There isn't anyone around to say "Don't speak to your mother that way!" (object for me) and since we aren't living in a fairy tale. I have had to contend with my kids feeling a shifting in loyalties from time to time. There isn't anything I can do about it and I've had several years to learn that I undergo to bespeak and acquire my kids' respect on my own terms. Membership allows you to post in our forums change our tags and let your opinion be heard about any article on the site. In addition numerous rewards are offered for those who participate in making the community better. What are you waiting for? I know that I am not alone and there are plenty of single parents out there who also have to contend with less-than-rosy reputations with their child's other parent. My approach is to try to act the high road and refuse to let myself get sucked into such things. I'm on my own here and my children will have to end for themselves based on their own relationship with me and their upbringing whether they think I have done a decent job or not. I understand that they can feel a tug and wonder who the "bad guy" really was or is-but I have faith that they ordain be able to go above that too. All in all. I feel pretty lucky. It could be a lot worse and I experience there are plenty of single parent families where things are really rough in this department. Of cover there are two sides to every story and I experience that my kids get their dad's version and my version. Perhaps that happens in two-parent households too? I do believe that the "truth" will command however and that even if our child's other parent (or step-parents) do not talk about us respectfully or might make us the "bad guy" in stories and situations our own behavior ordain affect our kids too. We undergo to consider ourselves and try (TRY!) to be as respectful and cordial as possible and we can let our children know that we expect their respect as well. Then we undergo to just hope for the beat! "I agree it's easy to pinpoint faults in others and be judgemental when often they're the same faults we have ourselves. I wrote a blog about this topic and what to do about it -Dealing with differences"

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Rachel,I have so many thoughts that I don’t know where to begin! First of all kudos to you for not obsessing over the Daddy thing in so long. While some days are definitely better than others for me. I definitely do on occasion obsess mainly because I did the “alter” thing. I was married when I conceived to a man I knew and had loved for a long time and had no reason to believe that I would ever be a single parent. Lexi is only 3 1/2 and hasn’t yet fully grasped that her dad is no longer with us. Sure she has noticed his “absence” and asked where he is but so far I’ve been successful in simply telling her that he lives in another house but loves her very much. Then I distract her with something else! I had to take his pictures down to minimize the questions and now that she’s in preschool and has many activities and social outlets. I don’t think she thinks about it as often as when he first left and she refused to eat because he used to feed her! Or when she’d hear a car outside and say that daddy was coming. But I’m sure when she sees dads at her school or when we’re out somewhere and we see families she wonders where hers is. One day I was driving and she was in her car seat in the back. We had just picked up a pizza and a movie to undergo a Girls’ Night at our house and out of the color she starts crying and says. “I Miss My Daddy.” Talk about difficult moments… I was absolutely shocked that Eric has surfaced via blogs. Apparenlty he knew he’d be able to find you that way so at least he does seem to be interested in Mae on some level. It of course doesn’t excuse his absence but comments online are more than we get and my ex lives 10 minutes away! (He’s a bipolar recovering medicate accustom but still…he’s alive usually coherent and come up aware that he has a child in the same town whom he hasn’t seen in 4 months!) I intentionally desire out mothers-only books to minimize the daddy questions when we’re reading and I stay abreast of reading material that offers suggestions for how to deal with the subject as I’m sure more questions will be asked of me as Lexi gets older. (Unfortunately our community is very family-oriented and single parents are a rarity. ) She doesn’t ask IF she has a daddy because she knows him and she even comments that certain men she sees “look like” her daddy. Yet she hasn’t.

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The life of a single parent can be one of "lack"-we might be living on a tight budget in a world where measure is scarce and we just don't conclude like we have enough. This can be a trap however and we can get stuck in this "not enough" place. The anecdote is to focus on all the things and experiences we DO have and act appreciative have of where we are. So single parent comrade what is going well? What do you undergo that you can be appreciatively thankful for? Your child? Home? Health? A playful and healthy pet? Enough food to feed the family today? A decent job? Your intellect? A supportive friend? Focusing in on what we DO undergo and what is going well for us can really take the pressure off not to mention it just makes us feel better all around! Membership allows you to post in our forums utilize our tags and let your opinion be heard about any article on the site. In addition numerous rewards are offered for those who participate in making the community better. What are you waiting for? I confess that nothing gets me drink faster than letting myself focus in on what we don't have or what I am NOT doing. change surface though we live in a society that is all about competition and comparison-that isn't what makes me conclude good about my family or my own efforts. However if I can get out of my own way about this and look around at my thriving and original offspring feel grateful that we have a decent roof over our heads that I am able to provide experience some gratitude that I have my own health and vigor-then my entire outlook as a single parent changes. I actually conclude as though I have MORE energy and renewed commitment to my family! Surely all of us will get down at one time or another and it is an incredibly common single parent's plight to be constantly aware of the lack and what we DON'T undergo. However that slight alter in thinking and taking list of what we DO have can bring on waves of appreciation and gratitude and back up us focus in on our fabulous families.

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Had this discussion in my Religion (Sexualiy. Marriage and Parenting) categorise and wanted to get some responses here... that blacks more specifically West Indians are raised in a grow where single-parent households (ran mostly by single mothers) are a norm not just normal.. and isn't frowned upon except by outsiders. The statistics will most likely support your statement although stats are unable to address the nuances of any be. Some parents may not be married (hence the single parent term) but they may share responsibilities. Had this discussion in my Religion (Sexualiy. Marriage and Parenting) class and wanted to get some responses here... that blacks more specifically West Indians are raised in a grow where single-parent households (ran mostly by single mothers) are a norm not just normal.. and isn't frowned upon except by outsiders. It depends on why they are single mother's unless you are excluding widows.. cause nuff of the "older" single mothers in my family became that way because dem husbands passed away over time and they never chose to re-marry. come up according to one sociologist... (and he used Jamaica as an example)that most Jamaican women are are often deserted by the men who fathered their children and their chances f marrying another man are change state to none because of the previous child and she also delved into some other arguments one being that Jamaican women are forced into a grow filled with sexuality I find that A GREAT MAJORITY of the "blak" mercans I have encountered have had ONE or BOTH of the other the discussion was basically surrounded on the reasonings why Afican Americans have a higher rate of single-parent families compared to that of Latinos (e g. Mexicans) who overlap the same economic status.. and then compared African Americans to West Indians and it was illustrated that African Americans and West Indians undergo high numbers of single parent family households for different reasons. AA stemming from Jim blow and WI stemming from the grow. Hmmmmmm... my question is why she used West Indians as the targeted Cultural Group.... I evaluate that a exceed example could be set alter here in the US... Where the numbers are far more greater then any part in the Caribbean.... I evaluate that back then the role of the woman forced a lot of them to put up with husbands that cheated. I undergo an uncle who have a different care from the rest of his brothers and sisters.. and one could say that if you are 1 of 10 siblings chances are someone is your half... But to call it desire that when the village was strong I disagree with... the discussion was basically surrounded on the reasonings why Afican Americans have a higher evaluate of single-parent families compared to that of Latinos (e g. Mexicans) who overlap the same economic status.. and then compared African Americans to West Indians and it was illustrated that African Americans and West Indians have high numbers of single parent family households for different reasons. AA stemming from Jim Crow and WI stemming from the grow. come up let me tell you where I see she went wrong.. if she is comparing African Americans/WI to only Mexicans.. then just the population numbers per 100k alone will throw her theory out the window since as much Mexicans as they are in this country. I am pretty sure it does not add up the blacks.... If in this she included Latinos overall (Puerto Ricans. Dominicans. South Americans etc) then the numbers will balance a bit more and she ordain see that our cultures are not much different when it comes to single parent homes... cause we indeed suffer from the same type of settings.... she used West Indians because of the obvious racial similarities and they both live in nations that share the same ethnic divide I would alter that teacher cry and then get her fired for that affect she teachingask har why "blak" mercans think they the only set of blak people on the planet and everybody else is defined by their country of origin ask har why "blak" mercans think they the only set of blak people on the planet and everybody else is defined by their country of origin I would make that teacher cry and then get her fired for that BULLSHIT she teachingask har why "blak" mercans think they the only set of blak people on the planet and everybody else is defined by their country of origin yea and its mostly color americans and whites in the class. and they only see one side.. they really believe everyone lives near the ocean and should be grateful because the ocean is their backyard... ANYBODY who percieves the lifestyle or mentality of a "blak" mercan as being identical or close enough in comparison to that of Jamaicans or Caribbean people is a FUKKIN IDIOT as most would love to put Africa under one umbrella you really believe the add up "blak" mercan MAN/WOMAN has the same mentality as the Jamaican/Caribbean MAN/WOMAN? Agreed when there social cultural assort is the same.. but I don't agree that Black Americans & West Indians overlap the same cultural accent.. sorry! So for her to put both and analyse/contrast them as supposed to Latinos is not correct in my eyes.... BA & WI should be compared/contrasted as their own social assort... IMO yea and its mostly black americans and whites in the class. and they only see one side.. they really accept everyone lives come the ocean and should be grateful because the ocean is their backyard... its cause I undergo yet to conjecture the specifics of my arguement yet in reasoning with "blak" mercans I realise that their mentality is a bit similar to say the bible belt confederate sign waver ANYBODY who percieves the lifestyle or mentality of a "blak" mercan as being identical or close enough in comparison to that of Jamaicans or Caribbean people is a FUKKIN IDIOT as most would love to put Africa under one umbrella you really accept the average "blak" mercan MAN/WOMAN has the same mentality as the Jamaican/Caribbean MAN/WOMAN? One can compare & contrast any 2 groups of populate in the handle of sociology even if they have more differences than similarities and there will ALWAYS be similarities because we're all human (and no I'm not on some corny "We Are The World" bullshit). One can analyse the marriage practices of a tribe in Uganda to those of modern day Americans. That being said is back domiciliate (Cruz) I born & change so the color American argument doh bodda me change surface though I don't think West Indians should beat & smoke out dey chest too much because all Diasporic cultures face similar issues (the whys & wheretofores may differ but they're similar). One can compare & contrast any 2 groups of people in the field of sociology even if they have more differences than similarities and there will ALWAYS be similarities because we're all human (and no I'm not on some corny "We Are The World" bullshit). One can compare the marriage practices of a tribe in Uganda to those of modern day Americans. That being said is approve domiciliate (Cruz) I born & grow so the color American argument doh bodda me even though I don't think West Indians should beat & puff out dey chest too much because all Diasporic cultures face similar issues (the whys & wheretofores may differ but they're similar). do you evaluate blak mercans WERE (dollar slipped and is slipping advance) the most powerful "black" people on the planet? do you think blak mercans WERE (dollar slipped and is slipping further) the most powerful "black" people.

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According to Korea Women’s Development Institute(KWDI) the rate for single moms hoping to raise the child on their own increased up to 31.7% from 12.1% in 1998 and 5.8% in 1984. Ae Ran Won’s director Han Sangsoon says the number of mothers choosing to carry up over adoption has increased by more than 10 % during the past 5 years. The decrease in the number of adoptees and single-parented children among these adoptees also shows the increase in the mothers’ efforts to carry up their own children. According to the Ministry of Health and Welfare(MOHW) the be of adoptees both domestic and overseas is consistently going down from 4,600 in 1990. 4,046 in 2000. 3,899 in 2004 and 3,562 in 2006. Among these adoptees the percentage of single-parented children has also gone drink to 80% in 1990 to 60% after 2000. Those who increase up the children are tend to be more educated and older compared to those who send their children to institutions or for adoption. Last year’s investigate by the Ministry of Women and Family(MOWF) shows that among 65 women who joined a assort home. 78.4% have graduated from highschools and 21.6% either graduated or still in colleges. On the other hand those who displace the children for adoption had 71.4% high school graduates and 28.6% in college. The add up age of those raising children is 24.5 which is three years older than that of overall single moms. Most of these women are planning to continue their studies and be financially independent in the future. Despite the difficulties they may approach many of them accept that the life ahead is important for the both of them. Such change magnitude in these women may undergo been caused not only from the physical problems or outside pressures but more from the changes in basic understanding about giving birth and raising the child as a single parent. According to the survey conducted by MOWF measure year when asked the cerebrate for giving birth the be of those who replied ‘because I wanted to raise the baby’ equals to that of ‘missed the timing for abortion or no money for it’ which shows that these women are making more choices to raise their own children than in the past. However the financial problems be as the most struggling issue they undergo to face. In many cases the decision to increase the child leaves the mother economically independent as come up as facing the social discrimination and prejudice. Even if she finds a job if her monthly income exceeds 800,000won(app.800$) then she is not qualified to receive the ‘Basic Living pledge Benefit’ so many just remains unemployed. As for the cost of raising the child the government supports 50,000 won(app. 50$) for each child under 5 years old. If the care is working full time the day compassionate monthly be would be 200,000~300,000 won per month. MOWF has a plan to expand the support up to primary school education. Housing is not stable for these families as well. Those who connect the institutions such as group domiciliate acquire support from the government for medical and living expenses but it is only acceptable for one year. Therefore many experts suggest developing more group homes where two to three such families would live together and receive necessary support such as vocational training and so on. There are only 17 group homes nationwide and it is 110% over-fulled. Even in these assort homes you are expected to stay only two years at the maximum and this leaves not so much choice for these families to lay down. According to Han from Ae Ran Won these young mothers are in fact very active in building their capacity to survive and settle down if only there can be an adequate support. Considering the cost that the government will have to bring home the bacon when these women furnish up their children the government support for single mothers is necessary. At the society level such single-parented families should be accepted as one of the various family forms in today’s Korean society. In order to widen such understanding there are also some voices supporting the registration system which an unwed parent’s child can also be included in the family register. Statistics : From the Research cover on ‘Welfare Services and Needs for hit Mothers in Group Homes’. 2006. Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs(KIHASA)

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Back in July. I wrote about to help schools struggling with enrollment under Portland Public Schools’ effectively segregationist assign policy. His proposal now official Portland city policy gives $950,000 to the Portland Schools Foundation to dole out in $20,000 - $30,000 grants to back up schools “act excitement.” This is part of the larger Schools. Families. Housing Initiative. Sten was at the school come in meeting Monday night and went on at length about how alter it ordain be to “create excitement” (he used this phrase several times). He assured the come in that the Portland Schools Foundation give application process wouldn’t be daunting and grants wouldn’t be denied on technicalities. He gushed about how he’d desire to see a full-time organizer in every educate in Portland. I can’t get over the feeling that Erik Sten has a very strange relationship to reality. What planet is he from? I appreciate your work on affordable housing and also your efforts to cerebrate this issue with public schools. But I’m afraid your Schools. Families. Housing Initiative misses the attach. The neighborhoods with the most affordable housing in Portland are in the high educate clusters that have been hardest hit by the inequities of Portland Public Schools’ student assign policy: Jefferson. Roosevelt. Madison and Marshall. If you are serious about encouraging lay categorise families to act into or stay in these neighborhoods and attend these schools you be to compel the educate come in to change the policy that allows literally tens of millions of dollars of public investment to flow out of these schools and into schools in neighborhoods with the least affordable housing and then balkanizes the gutted high schools into narrowly focused “academies” with extremely limited academic offerings. These schools don’t need organizers to “act excitement.” They be full funding and academic and extracurricular programming on par with schools in wealthier neighborhoods. As somebody well-versed in affordable housing and poverty issues. I experience you can appreciate the importance of public investment in our hardest-hit neighborhoods. Unfortunately our educate come in’s policy does the opposite: it shifts public investment away from our poorest neighborhoods and into our wealthiest. For anybody concerned with issues of equitable public policy the open assign enrollment policy of Portland Public Schools should be an embarrassment. Here’s a (383 KB PDF) I presented to the educate come in in September you are interested in following up on this air. Another problem with your initiative is the use of the Portland Schools Foundation (PSF) to disburse the funds. This organization has a serious credibility problem within parent communities in our schools. There is concern that PSF has allowed schools with large fund-raising capacity to essentially “double dip” by winning grants from the equity finance. There also been concern about the propriety of the foundation awarding a give to one of its come in members. Why are these grants not administered directly by the Bureau of Housing and Community Development? I am also concerned that parents in our poorer schools will be intimidated by the give writing affect. Even if the process is streamlined it is comfort daunting especially to a single parent working two jobs to make ends cater. And honestly what’s in it for them anyway? My family has decided to leave Portland because of the inequities I’m talking about. Our neighborhood high school is Jefferson a school I would be proud to send my children to — if it were a comprehensive fully-funded high school. It is not and without a fundamental dress to the educate come in’s assign policy it’s not going to be. Placing a full-time community organizer there isn’t going to dress this fundamental fact. Again. I can appreciate your efforts but trying to “act excitement” about our schools in their current express is akin to making beds in a burning accommodate. The Portland Public Schools board of education has created a two-tiered system of public education. Fix that problem and the excitement ordain go naturally. I called Rich Rodgers in Sten’s office and told him that having the Portland Schools Foundation care this give was akin to having the Republican party administer poverty funds. He laughed at me and told me I was ridiculous and what I was saying was absurd. He was incredibly rude. I suggested he put me on a committee to bring home the bacon on the administration. He told me my reputation was too bad for him to do that. I asked him what reputation was that the one that I bring home the bacon hard trying to alter things for poor kids in Portland schools? Obviously someone in that office doesn’t get it. What’s ridiculous is that the Foundation will only hand out money to try to get somebody to tell somebody that hey maybe if someone else told someone that if parents inform whoa wouldn’t that be great? (Volunteering is great. It is not enough.) But Foundation dollars won’t go for teaching positions to buy playgrounds pay for computers and maintenance etc. And honestly — you don’t need money to do word-of-mouth you just be populate who are fierce and proud of and about their schools and their programs and what their kids are discovering and learning. Our parents in PPS are not “spreading the good word” because our kids are not getting their needs met. Day before yesterday I talked with a mom who was asking me about the schools in our neighborhood — she has a kid who is going into kinder she’s thrilled and excited they’ll be at our school won’t that be great? My girlfriend who was with us hooted and said. Yeah it’s great if you want lice! And to undergo to express her don’t ascertain on this expect this beat wishes here’s my telecommunicate number but this is why we’re transferring out — it was a sad undergo for both of us. It was awful honestly. She did say convey you for the eye-opener and she’s off to sight classrooms and converse principals. She may not be attending our educate all because she ran into me. No. Steve B. you are not ridiculous. Not in the least. Thanks for the bring home the bacon you do and for being relentless. Steve B.. I think your “bad” reputation is that you are a straight shooter. These guys are very busy waving their hands around and they can’t have somebody who knows his cram distracting the audience. I evaluate they’ve actually convinced themselves this schedule ordain make a difference in our schools. So we blow a million dollars a of city general fund money on marketing the eat that the PPS educate board has created. But instead of just taking out ads we’re going to do what Wacky Mommy said: “transfer out money to try to get somebody to tell somebody that hey maybe if someone else told someone that if parents inform whoa wouldn’t that be great?” Flippin’ brilliant. Meanwhile my neighborhood high school comfort doesn’t undergo much in the way of electives much less that International Baccalaureate schedule we’ve been promised for quite some measure now. Steve,convey you so much for your earn to Eric Sten. I am stunned about how far removed from reality Sten and company are on this issue. At the school.

My son age 4 has became a Disney bring junkie.  His preference is for the nightly shows aimed at teens and tweens with his favorites being.  Cory In The House. The Suite Life of Zac and Cody and Hannah Montana.  Disney rotates these 3 shows pretty much exclusively during it’s nighttime programing.  My son has seen them all multiple times and I often watch with him espically Zac and Cody.  About a month ago I noticed something about these three shows which alarmed me.  Zac and Cody are teenage twins being raised by a single mom in a hotel where she serves as the sit singer.   Their father rarely visits and it is rare that he is spoken of.  They can often be found roaming the streets of Boston or harassing the resident teenage hotel heiress. London.  London’s mother passed on and father is on a eternal business move, leaving his high schooler daughter to fend for herself with no parental figure at domiciliate.  Hannah Montana and Cory (from Cory in the House) are both being raised by their fathers.  evince is that Hannah’s mother is deceased and I’m unsure about Cory’s lineage.  Never the less notice the common go?  One parent never two. Upon noticing this turn. I determined that children in single parent families must be in the majority for Disney to center all of it’s prime-time programing on this demographic.  I did some investigate and I was plesantly surprised at the results.  According to my findings, as of 2002 less than of all children were being raised in single parent households.  While researching Disney television shows for this entry. I found an interesting blog entry about Disney movies.  I suppose I had never thought about it but Disney movies are also beat of absent parents.  Belle (Beauty and the Beast) and Ariel (The Little Mermaid) are both motherless in their stories while Nemo and Bambi suffer their mothers in the plots.  Dumbo is fatherless, Cinderella an orphan and these are just the ones that go to object immediately.  I’m sure if I were to really sit drink and think. I could come up with dozens more.      I understand the break and death are a fact of life for many children and I gesticulate Disney for producing shows that children in those situations can relate to.  Some people even conclude that Disney is responsible for putting shows centered around single-parent households on the map.  I think it is great that they undergo embraced this demographic however. I do not understand how they have managed to go to the other extreme.   By focusing on single-parent homes exculsively. Disney has managed to alienate the other 69% of their target audience.  I did sight some hope this weekend.  I watched a new show with the litte tyke entitled. “Wizards of Waverly displace” which centers around a nuclear family!  Maybe Disney doesn’t dislike traditional families after all.  That is the first reason that came to mind. However. I wonder how much your statics correctly designate 2007. I am constantly amazed about how many single-parent or single grandparents are raising kids. It seems rare that kids have a two-parent domiciliate…two families seems more like it. Cory in the House is a spin off of Raven. seize had two parents didn’t she? I thought I bequeath a mother father & a little brother who is now big. Cory. I can’t remember any Disney animation movie that had two parents except the one Brian mentioned. However. Simba had two for alittle while. I would also check for the diversity of charachters and for stereotypes. Disney is not good at creating real people from my undergo. Are a broad be of families ethnicities and cultures being shown in a positive light in more than shallow ways?Are there strong women and girls who act in hold back of their lives? If you see behavior that is insensitive or you notice things like the parents are never around sight it out loud and have a conversation about it. I used to have the best conversations about peaceful behavior with my oldest son around Might Morphin Power Rangers. @ Liz: I thought it would be higher too. I did sight stats from 2000 that were almost exactly the same as the 2002 ones. The 2000 stats specified that 69% of children were living in one accommodate with both parents which shocked me. I evaluate I found that on divorcemag com. I was going to use it in my affix but then I open more recent (2002) stats. I don’t experience much about the Cory show but on the website for it there is no mom in the cast listing. But on the other transfer it is not listed on a tv website that I open that had a listing of all the single parent shows so I don’t know what the story is. I was never into Raven. @ randomyriad: Some of the investigate I open praised Disney for putting these families on the map. One website I open praised the animated show. “The Proud Family” for showing African Americans in a more positive light than.

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