om their fathers. These women often become very dependent of males although they dont know how to relate to them and have the wrong idea about what a relationship should be like. Also because of an unconscious resentment toward their absent fathers some girls even grow up to hate men (Jacobs).There has been a dramatic shift from the traditional nuclear family to one-parent homes. The percentage of children living with single parents has doubled from twelve to twenty-seven percent since 1970 (Young). This change is due to the increase in the divorce rates and the number of unmarried parents. Single parent families now include more than eighteen million children and comprise the most common non-nuclear families (Young).These statistics may be somewhat of a concern because crime and poverty is directly related to children who are raised by teenage parents. People who are faced with the harsh reality of raising children are most often not ready to deal with the responsibility. Some mens answer to this is running away from the problem. In turn, they fail to provide any kind of financial support for their children and start to reject them as their own. This leaves the mother all alone to juggle the responsibility of raising the Sebring 3children along with earning all or most of the family income needed to support them (Young).Most teen mothers turn to governmental aid like Welfare, W.I.C., Focus Hope, project housing, and Medicaid in order to make ends meet. This allows the mothers to only give their children the bare minimum for survival. Thanks to financial aid and grants, many of these single mothers are able to attend college to further their education and get a step ahead in their career (Young). Government aid is good and people who are in need deserve to receive it. People who are poor should not be denied the chance to get health insurance, financial aid for tuition, decent housing and suitable food to eat.It is unfair f...
