Hi i choose a movie the pursuit of happiness in my research class anf from that movie i picked the topic " Single parenting and its long-term effects." now i am thinking at starting i want to put some tear shredding single parents kid’s true story. i wanna do something creative before my essay so can you please help me out thanks in advance

This is my introduction.

How many single parents do you know? The family structure has significantly changed in past few decades. Single parenting is taking place of nuclear families in United States. Single parent household is no more nontraditional family in our society. This trend is spreading rapidly in our culture. As Kristin Ketteringham said in her article that, “The U.S. Census Bureau reported that about 30 percent of American families are headed by only one parent. Single-parent households numbered over 12 million in the year of 2000.”
Many people claim that they know how to raise kids and parent influence on their kids’ lives. These people talk about so many written articles that they might convince you that they have firsthand knowledge about raising kids. However, this is not always the case especially when it comes to writing an article. It’s very easy to write an article about single parenting but the in reality it is very different. According to US Census Bureau, “Children living at home with both parents grow up with more financial and educational advantages than youngsters raised by one parent, as U.S Census Bureau statistics have long shown. But even for those children living in single parent homes, the marital status of the parent can affect the quality of life.” In following paragraphs I’ll show you that in single parenting house a child’s life is severely compromised when raised by a single parent because of limited resources, reasoning, and the destruction of a "traditional (nuclear) family"

Today’s Facts….which of course do not pertain to all single parents however…….

Today in America…

Single parents account for nearly a third of family households with children under the

Half of children will live in a single parent household at some point in childhood.

The number of children born to unmarried women per year quadrupled from 500,000 to more than two million in less than twenty years.

The number of single mothers increased from three million to ten million between 1970 and 2000.

Every day in America, 1,186 babies are born to teen mothers.

Every day in America, 3,742 babies are born to unmarried mothers.

What is the effect?

Violent criminals are overwhelmingly males who grew up without fathers.

Seventy-five percent of children/adolescents in chemical dependency hospitals are from single parent families.

More than half of all youths incarcerated for criminal acts lived in one-parent families when they were children.

Sixty-three percent of suicides are individuals from single parent families.

Seventy-five percent of teenage pregnancies are from single parent homes.

Children living at home with both parents grow up with more financial and educational advantages than youngsters raised by one parent, as US Census statistics have long shown.

Seventy-two percent of the US Populations believes that fatherlessness is the most significant social problem America is facing.

Children in single parent families are two to three times as likely as children in two parent families to have emotional and behavioral problems.

Children who lived with only one parent had lower grade point averages, lower career aspirations, poorer attendance records, and higher drop out rates than students who lived with both parents.
I am totally aware of deadbeat dads……trust me.

I did say not all single parents. I know there are many great single parents and many horrible parents who stay together. I do find these statistics to be a bit alarming though. Don’t you?