Shanda's+Annotated+Bibliography

** Worth, R. (1992). //Single Parent Families.// New York: Franklin Watts. ** The author was explaining in this book the life of a child without both parents. It talks about different situations with children and how each child grows up different because of their single parent home. Like a boy growing up with just a mother turns out bad. A girl who grows up with just a mother and ends up the head of her senior class. Valentine, J. (2007). //Me, the missing, and the dead.// New York: Harper Collins. ** The author is talking about a young boy who grew up with just his father. When his father disappears he goes on a violent path to find out what happen. Now he was already going in the wrong direction but when his father disappeared he got worst. Eventually he did get better and his life was back on track. Wolff, V. E. (2001, 2002). //True Believer.// New York: Simon Pulse. ** This book was about a young boy living in poverty and violence with his mother. He got caught up in a lot of mess that involved guns. He eventually learns from old and new friend and his mentor that life is what you make it. So he decides to make the best of it instead of the worst.
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[|**http://www.apahelpcenter.org/articles/article.php?id=16**]

This article is explaining the life in a single parent home and how single parent homes have become really common. Single parent homes can be headed by mothers, fathers, and grandparents. Single parent homes deal with more problems then people deal with in a nuclear family household. They can face these problems by talking to other family members, friends, and church members.

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This article talks about the differences of growing up in a single parent home with a father or mother. It also talks about the challenges that the children and the parents face. In 2000 single parent households numbered over 12 million and 30 percent of American households are headed by only one parent.