Atlanta 2004

Cake Decorating

There are many freelance, starving artists out there never thought about trying their hand at cake decorating. Now is the time to give this craft serious consideration. Cake decorating allows you to exercise your creativity and at the same time it’s a form of self-relaxation to relieve you from daily stress with your child. Try a simple cake and decorate it with anything you want on top (or on the sides) of the cake. You can buy fresh flowers, dolls, figurines or anything you’re crazy about and create your own masterpiece. If you need a professional help, there are plenty of culinary schools that offer variety of courses to help you.

Homework Tutor

Do you like to listen to your children read? Are you patient and caring? Do you visit the teacher’s store in your area buying little books that can help your own children read, write or do basic math? Would you like to help another child in your neighborhood? If you think you might be interested in helping children with their homework, become a homework tutor. There are busy parents who do not have time to help their own children and would appreciate someone making sure their children understand and complete their homework. Remember parents are not only paying for your time and expertise. Make sure you provide parents with a weekly progress report and ask them to let their child’s teacher know they are working with a homework tutor, so your efforts will not be in vain.

Personal cook

Do you have a food specialty? Is there a dish you prepare that is always a family favorite? Have you ever tried to sell your special cheesecake or cookie crumble? Today, everyone seems to be consumed with the thoughts of food, and why not since most of us have little time to cook or even think about cooking. Take a look around your community and visit bakeries and cafes, is something missing? Is there a café that would benefit from your Special Pasta Carbonara or the Seafood Paella? You may want to start small and deliver a few goodies to a local bakery or become a recipe developer for a number of restaurants in your area. Are you into recipe contest? Commercial food companies are always looking for a new original recipe and they are willing to pay. What have you got to lose?

Single parent families are at a higher risk of poverty than couple families and, on the average, single mothers have poorer health than couple mothers.

Single parenting is strongly associated with a n increased risk of a number of negative social, behavioral and emotional outcomes for children. However while the association is strong, on balance the effect size and the actual numbers affected are modest. Most children from single parent families: the parent’s age, education level, and occupation; the family’s income, and the family’s support network of friends and extended family members (including the non-resident parent, if available).

Disadvantages in these factors that often company single parenting appear to cause most of this association rather than single parenting itself.

Shocking headlines do get published; for example, an international study stated that those living with a single parent were about three more likely to develop suicidal attempts by the age of 26 than children living with two parents; however this only happened to 2.2 percent of boys. While such a finding is concerning, clearly the vast majority of the children of single parents do not kill themselves.

A variety of viewpoints do exist, with different readings of the research possible. An international study reports that children of single parents, after controlling other variables like family income, are more likely to have problems. There are impacts of sole parenting on children; however, the weight of the evidence does not appear to support a view that sole parents are a major cause of societal ills and are doing irreparable damage to their children.

Not enough study and research has been given to this what some people call “One of societies biggest social problems.” The effects are relative. Some children experience symptoms ranging from anxiety to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. It is true that many children grow up to lead productive lives- but at what cost to them in other areas in their lives? The sad truth is that abandonment or separations have a profound effect on children. There is no such thing as a good separation.