Bone, a punk living in upstate New York, had finally found a safe place to settle in after running away from his abusive stepfather and oblivious mother. ... After saying goodbye to Froggie and sending her home by bus, Bone soon saw that he, too, needed his mother and left I-Man with the money that he had stolen from the drug addict so he could buy himself a plane ticket home as winter was coming and I-Man couldn't survive off of frozen vegetable plants. After saying his goodbyes to the man who had saved his life on several occasions---and who's teachings would probably save him in m...

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• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Gay adoption not only benefits gay couples but also provides orphans with a home. ... Thousands of gay couples are willing and would happily provide children with a places to call home, yet many states are denying the opportunity to orphans. ... Instability is something which children cannot handle very well and adoption by loving gay parents is an alternative to foster homes where children are moving from one home to another without stability. ... In the book Adoption by Lesbians and Gay Men: A New Dimension in Family diversity David M. ... For example, there are many stay-at-home dads while ...

• Word Count: 1732
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Tobias uses emotive imagery to paint the image of a young child walking alone in the streets longing for a father, a family and a stable environment and a place to call home. Tobias's ideas of a family are based around the 1950's stereotype of the American family, which consisted a working father, stay at home mother, two children and a dog, who would all live in a suburban house. ... Wolff reflects on these memories as a way of highlighting the effect of being abandoned by his own father had on him growing up, especially his lack of stability within the home and within his life. ......

• Word Count: 1024
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Travis Hirschi's 1969 book, Causes of Delinquincy, he focuses on the family, the school, and peers as the most influencial factors on a youth. ... The first three come from what is labeled as the "broken home" and will be classified as such. ... Of all the broken home factors divorce is the most studied and is often compared to the death of a parent. ... Wadsworths study called, Roots of Delinquincy, presented longitudinal studies of homes broken by divorce, desertion, or separation. The results showed that such homes were more likely to produce serious delinquency in comparison to homes ...

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• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

When one refers to the eighteenth century, however, he must realize that there were many major cultural, religious, and moral differences between colonial Americans of different regions of the newly discovered land we now call the United States of America. ... The hired workers however, did not live with the farmers, because the trend of the Middle region was to engage in a nuclear family, that being only the close kin living with one another in a single home. ...

• Word Count: 2981
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: Undergraduate