Giving evidence are Crisis, Drugscope, Mind, and the Single Parent Action Network.
The rise of grandfamilies also highlights another growing branch of America's changing family tree: The single parent household, overwhelmingly headed by mothers.
Witnesses include: Crisis, Drugscope, Mind, and the Single Parent Action Network.
But the single biggest ingredient is the parent. (Applause.) So this is an example where, people are always trying to say, oh, Obama, is he liberal?
The engineer and grandmother who climbed the ranks of the defense establishment while a single parent was charged with the difficult task of helping BAE make the transition from a supplier of heavy weaponry used in wartime, like the 33-ton Bradley Fighting Vehicle, into a more diversified provider of equipment, electronics and software.
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At the same time, Americans are more likely than ever to live apart from extended family, including the second parent (34% of all families in the US are headed by a single parent today compared to just 11% in 1970).
She said in the statement that she chose to raise her son as a single parent and that the two agreed that it would be a private matter.
Instead, children are put into the custody of a single parent after divorce.
But the rise of single-parent families in itself has complex social causes, and it will not be reversed by politicians.
Curiously, as blogger Tom Maguire notes, Blow himself has written on the dangers of single-parent households to black children in particular--in 2008, when he congratulated Barack Obama for his candor in raising the question.
Ms. MITCHELL: The thing is that I am a single parent, and I'm here to let the judge know that my intentions are to be moving out, but I need enough time to do so because I have two younger children and I also work a full-time job.
The social stigma of illegitimacy has disappeared, and single parent families are considered part of the norm.
The social care department said a single parent with an older child who is severely disabled will still qualify for income support on the basis that they are a carer, rather than a lone parent.
One would think an extra income contributed by a grandparent joining the household would help single-parent or even double-parent families.
Having left college without completing my degree, my AmeriCorps education award made it possible to complete my studies while managing the responsibilities of being a single parent.
Tammy Andreycak was that person and she realized she had done something wrong and at 42 years old (at the time) and a single parent, she needed to come clean.
In 2006, Eddie left his power suit job at Tyson Foods to start his own foundation -- the Eddie Armstrong Scholarship Foundation -- dedicated to providing scholarships to minority students of single-parent homes and attending the University of Arkansas.
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We know that the poverty rate is higher among single parent households than in families with married couples.
One family in five in social housing is headed by a single parent, triple the percentage of the population at large.
And as a single parent, oftentimes, the child has to get out - the oldest child.
But what Scarborough failed to mention is that same black man came from a single-parent home where the mom had to go on welfare just to feed her family.
Aside from the basics - utilities, schools, clean streets, efficient public transport - at which Tokyo traditionally excels, the Japanese megapolis provides sign-language interpreters for the deaf, home helpers for the elderly, and subsidies for single-parent households.
The percentage of children raised by a single parent is 10% or higher in all countries except Spain and exceeds 20% in four. (The U.S. tops the list at 27%.) The biggest differences are in the policies (or really, lack thereof) described above.
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Even at that age I could sense the gap in wealth and living standards compared to the relative comfort of growing up in a single parent family in Croydon.
The good news is that being raised by a single parent does not condemn a child to a disadvantaged life.
Say that same parent is living with, but not married to, another single parent with two children who earns the same amount.
As a single parent, I knew that playing tennis on the weekends would give me an opportunity to meet people.
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Stay-at-home parents should qualify for a new government program while they are raising young children--one that provides money for good food, as well as education on cooking, meal planning and shopping--so that one parent in a two-parent household, or a single parent, can afford to be home with the children and provide wholesome, healthy meals.
Blake cared for Kaiya as a single parent but Mr Glenford "kept in touch with the defendant and maintained an interest in her and his daughter".
Persistent poverty is most acute among single-parent households: 29% of those in the bottom 30% of the income distribution in 1991 stayed there for the next five years, a higher proportion than for any other household type.
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