Single Parent Family: Commentary: Growing up in a single-parent family
BOB EDWARDS, host: Each day this week, MORNING EDITION is broadcasting college admissions essays by high school seniors. Ambar Espinoza describes growing up in a single-parent family.AMBAR ESPINOZA: Every time my 10-year-old sister asks where our dad is, it makes me sad. At seven, I never asked questions. I knew that I had a father who left before I was even born. I knew that my baby sister had a dad who didn't stay with her either. I knew, no questions asked.My entire...
Single Parent Family: COMMENTARY: GROWING UP IN A SINGLE-PARENT FAMILY
BOB EDWARDS, host: Each day this week, MORNING EDITION is broadcasting college admissions essays by high school seniors. Ambar Espinoza describes growing up in a single-parent family.AMBAR ESPINOZA: Every time my 10-year-old sister asks where our dad is, it makes me sad. At seven, I never asked questions. I knew that I had a father who left before I was even born. I knew that my baby sister had a dad who didn't stay with her either. I knew, no questions asked.My entire...
Single Parent Family: INMATES, CHURCH TEAM UP TO BUILD HOUS>WORK-CAMP INMATES WORK UNDER CHURCH PROGRAM TO BENEFIT SINGLE-PARENT FAMILY
A single-parent family will have a home thanks to the work of inmates from the Hanna City Work Camp and to a non-profit Peoria agency.Fifteen inmates put three months of work into the three- bedroom home at 305 W. Nebraska Ave., replacing the roof, laying a new foundation and adding a back room and central air-conditioning.They worked under Cephas, a subsidiary of the Christian Family Center Church.Cephas' president, the Rev. Tony Pierce, was joined Monday at the...
Single Parent Family: WHY BLAME SINGLE MOTHERS?
ACROSS THE spectrum, politicians and pundits have mounted a crusade to wipe out me and my kind -- single moms -- as the way to solve America's welfare mess. Last year, it was Vice President Dan Quayle and conservative commentator Charles Murray. Now it's the Democrats. The other day on "Meet the Press," Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan sat there and blamed every last American social ill on the "single parent family" which does...
Single Parent Family: local
Jeremiah needs a spotter. A gymnastics commercial on TV made a big impression on Jeremiah and now he wants to learn how to do handstands and flips.This is a call to every man, young or old, to find time a couple hours per month to play sports, watch sports or build things with a boy who comes from a single-parent family. Jeremiah and other personable boys are waiting for volunteers to come forward to be their Big Brothers. Jeremiah, 9, lives with his mother and sister on the northwest side...