June 8th, 2009 by Brandon Buttars
Education help for single mothers can come in the form of online education. A high percentage of single mothers find themselves in dire situations without an education. Some of the things that these super heroine find themselves doing are supporting their families, working a full time jobs, taking care of their sick children, and taking care of their homes. Single mothers come in all forms.
There are many reasons that women become single mothers. Decisions made as a teenager, marital problems, death of a spouse, and the list continues on. It’s easy for some of us to say it was a decision, but often times the decision was not a decision made by these mothers.
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May 4th, 2009 by Kate Lehnhof
Every parent wants the very best for their children, but single parents are often faced with trying to accomplish that huge task with half the resources.
A recent study by the US Census Bureau reported that 79% of all single mothers work and 23.4% of all single-parent families are living below the poverty level. The discouraging connection between those two statistics is that the majority of parents who are working full or part-time are the same parents who are living below the poverty level.
Online college classes offer solutions, no matter what your family situation may be.
More and more single parents are attending colleges these days. In the last ten years the number of single parents enrolled in college classes has increased from 7% to 13% percent. As more single parents earn their college degrees, they make more money in their current jobs or find higher-paying positions. When you are equipped with sophisticated skills and extensive educational training, suddenly opportunities that seemed out of reach before are suddenly at your fingertips.
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