For some single parents they are held under law to allow custody which can continue conflict between both parties. ... Eventually she did get sober for a time, but shortly after this I left home at 15. When I left home I also left school. ... Years of therapy, reflection and healing allowed me to rise above the old beliefs I held about myself and has contributed to why I am vastly different from my mother. ... When a father is not present in the home, it can create social problems. ...

• Word Count: 2758
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

This literature put the home at the center of a woman's life with child rearing the most important aspect of home. Women then became willing to follow the leanings of society and remain at home. ... This dissatisfaction at work, unhappiness at home, and separation between husband and wife led to men joining clubs and lodges and also led to the proliferation of prostitution as men looked elsewhere for the companionship they were not finding at home (Demos 71). ... Women also lost much of the status that they had previously held in the agrarian society. ... The government helped by pro...

• Word Count: 2505
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In order to make the eventual move to the camps more fluidly, the Germans had uprooted the Jews from their homes and relocated them to two "ghettos" - sections of town patrolled by Hungarian police and enclosed by barbed wire (p. 9). ... As he marched towards their new "home," he saw babies burned to death and vowed to never "forget those flames which consumed my faith forever." ... While this does not really characterize Elie" personality that well, that same emotion was held by many young men in the concentration camps. ...

• Word Count: 3336
• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: High School

As the eighteenth century went on, it became more and more difficult, however, "to support a family on farming alone," and many had to resort to working in factories or shops as well as owning a small farm to earn enough to afford the family's basic needs.8 It was a well known fact that "relationships within native American families, clans, and tribes were far more supportive than were the frequently adversarial activities of landed families and nation-states in Europe."9 The native Americans of the North, also known as the Amerindians, held women much higher on the social ladder than d...

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

She then describes her feelings at seeing her grandmother at a family picnic planned for celebration before her grandmother was sent to a home: "I wanted to run up to her, give her a hug, and never let go. ...

• Word Count: 3614
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The house in the colonial times shaped the home. ... For example, while boys were off with their fathers, girls would stay home with their mothers, mostly helping out with the cooking, sewing and laundering. ...

• Word Count: 3125
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Deborah longed to go to school with them but she was needed at home to work on the farm. ... Deborah watched as the British attempted to halt the rebellious talk and acts by closing the port of Boston and quartering troops in private homes. ... This was laughed at because Deborah was a female and the woman's place was not in war but at home. ... To make sure no one could notice Deborah went to her mothers home and her mother could not recognize her. ... Once the regiment arrived in West Point they were given heavy knapsacks to carry and new uniforms. " Robert" served with Captain Nathan T...

• Word Count: 2708
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

Because Mother Savage was known to "have money- she would be assigned four Prussian soldiers to come into her home. ... Is it possible that she wanted the families of the Prussian soldiers to share in the grief that she was in; most likely when the text states: "This one has their names on it so you can write home about them."" ... Two years before the birth of Katherine O'Flaherty (Kate Chopin), in 1848, there was a Women's Rights Convention held in Seneca Falls, New York with the intention to create better lives for women. ...

• Word Count: 2584
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

Timothy Findley pieced The Wars together much like a puzzle. When piecing together a puzzle it is crucial to first find the corner pieces. As when trying to understand the novel it is necessary to realize what the most important aspects are. Each separate corner holds together and is linked to anoth...

• Word Count: 2775
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

The children grow up, leaving home, starting families of their own, and, finally, living apart from the family support. ... "12 This struggle is not a new one; it is connected with deeply held attitudes concerning the Americans‟ dream of an ideal family system of freedom and democracy which emerged with the emergence of democracy in America. ...

• Word Count: 9352
• Approx Pages: 37
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In the book "All God's Children" author Fox Butterfield delivered his point of view and his theory on the Bosket family and the American tradition of violence. Fox Butterfield was born in 1939 in Lancaster PA, graduating from Harvard University, Fox Butterfield became a famous journalist and author ...

• Word Count: 3198
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Elaine Rodney and Robert Mupier, conducted a study showing that boys who did not live with their fathers were twice as likely to have been in trouble with the police and twice as likely to have been held back a grade in school. ...

• Word Count: 4534
• Approx Pages: 18
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School