Due to the prevalence of divorce and non-marital childbearing in the United States, over half of all children are likely to spend at least part of their childhood living apart from one or both of their biological parents. Of these children, 90% will live primarily with their biological mother (&quo...

Social Factors Affecting Inner City Poverty Poverty has stricken the country with thousands of inner city families facing dilemmas that contribute to their inability to reach a higher economic social status. Each year, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issues updates for the U.S. F...

Daycare has become a controversy because of the great quantity of advantages and disadvantages that it involves. While a very large number of parents have to rely on child care centers because of career ambitions or financial needs that only their jobs can fulfill, most child psychiatrists believe...

A Discourse on Poverty It is the common misconception that poverty is the fault of individuals, as we can see by the passing of various new laws and acts (for example the 1996 welfare reform act). But it is the imperfection of our social structure that is to blame. These flaws allow the perpetua...

Economic Injustice Economic Justice Between Classes We live in a country today misrepresented by its own peoples' perception. The consensus that we live in the greatest nation in the world is not so much a feeling of nationalism as it is a forgone conclusion in the minds of millions of Ameri...

Even though many feel the plight of the homeless is solely a result of choices and behavior, all across America, many people are living without shelter and sleep on our streets, alleyways, under freeways and even more detrimental, these individuals often live without hope. Not only are homeless peop...