Slave families then were held together by a web of kin connections; grandparents, uncles, aunts, cousins became the nurturer of the child when the absence of one or both parents occurred. A great majority, four-fifths in 1800, of American families farmed the land for themselves and their neighbors despite the growing expansion of commerce, transportation innovations, and manufacturing. ...

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Research reports are divided on the causes of school violence. Some refer to family situations. They say that when students are likely to live in poverty, witness drug abuse at home, have parents arrested and/or sent to prison, then it is not surprising how many students behave well, rather th...

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