Social Analysis Article

[Flea]

An article I wrote last week. Let me know what you think.


With the data provided, many things can be associated with the gradual increase

of children in single parent households. From 1985 to 2000, the percentage of children

in single parent households has increased nearly ten percent. This rapid change in family

values can be attributed to the increase of living costs and the stress placed on families when

forced to live and raise children based on inadequate income.


The high number of children living in single parent households, either fatherless

or motherless, can also be attributed to a loss of eccentric family values being promoted

in a society that places more importance on self-interest and survival than on the timeless

traditions based around strong-bond emphasis and the role of the big family.


These trends show a irrefutable link between the dissolution of family ties and the

increase in social problems. With a decrease in the percentage of children living in

functional family units comes an increase in the levels of juvenile violent crimes, including

teen homicide and a variety of other juvenile arrests. Suicide also seems to increase steadily

as the percent of children living in single parent households rises.


One does not have to look at numbers to presume that in single parent

households, the amount of poverty stricken children also increase. When one parent is solely

responsible for having a substantial enough income to provide adequately for his/her

children, the standard of living takes a nose dive. This does not take into account luxuries,

but rather pragmatic essentials of daily living such as food, shelter, medical costs, and

education.







While under President George H.W. Bush's administration in the early 1990's, the

economy as a whole was in recession. While the Republicans seemed to exemplify traditional

family values, it was relegated to those only with enough income to hold stock, or those who

represented the core of what the right wing deemed “Truly American”. This did not apply

to immigrant and minority families. African and Mexican Americans took the brunt of

the negligence of the first Bush administration.


With the incidences of crime increasing due to the situations most lower class

families lived in, the early 90's saw a violent response from minority communities across the

U.S.


In 1992, the L.A. Riots exploded onto every news channel across America.

The Rodney King beatings forced Americans to pay attention to the social and economic

disparity between whites and blacks. Children in low income households became forced into a

situation where they would eventually have to rely on gangs and criminal activities to make any

sort of living. The explosion of gang activity can be seen across the nation in the early 90's.

The Mexican America gangs, made up of children from mostly newly immigrated families

found new places among the ranks of ms13 and the Latin kings, two of the most violent gangs

in the last two centuries. The African American communities found themselves in the middle

of a war between rival gangs (the bloods and the crips) in a still unending battle that

would cost hundreds of lives.


While some touted that African Americans had every opportunity to succeed as whites,

it is a fact that although the Civil Rights movement had begun nearly 30 years prior, it

was far from accomplishing any sort of victory. Minority children, without good education

had no chance to succeed in the digital boom of the 90's and were subsequently relegated to

their former, if not even more substandard ways of living.


The 90's was truly the start of the electronic age. Those involved in the progress

made in the digital marketplace were predominantly white Americans with family heritages

reaching back to the foundation of our country; they had money, power and influence. The

boom left those unfortunate minorities out-of-touch and alienated from the progress being

made. The World Wide Web was born in 1992, changing the way we communicated, spent

our money and did our business. Yet minorities report that it was not until the turn of the

century that readily available and cheap access to the new media was available. This leaves

an eight year gap in which whites consolidated their power into corporations that still control

the flow of information and it's availability. This was the beginning of trends that would

eventually harrow a nightmarish and dangerously volatile situation, where the widening

economic gap between the wealthy and the poor set into motion the political and social

consequences that we see unfolding today.

[Consultant]

What is your thesis?

Is this an article about the breakdown of the American family or racism or class-warfare as imposed by the mainstream media?

You touch on a lot of topics.

[Arreo]

Also, for what was it originally written? Or did you just take it into your head to write?

[BigHub]

You need to include citations on where you found your data and percentages. Such information is non-credible when not cited.

[Graverunner]

And it's probably easier to read single-spaced.

[Flea]

the data was from an excel spreadsheet. I guess it doesn't make sense without the numbers...

[ic0n]

You need to include citations on where you found your data and percentages. Such information is non-credible when not cited.

x2, its a solid article and it touches on a lot of points but citations are needed to back up your claims as well as prevent plagiarism if there are ideas represented that you got from earlier works. What did you write it for?

[Muqtar SGT_Clintok]

Opinion presented as fact. I'd grade this as in the lower 20% of what we see around TTP. Even when I totally disagree with the posts I read, they are solid points.

Hell, I've seen that Canadian communist guy put a better face on communism than this post is on your point. And I am more likely to understand your point of view than some red commie living it up in capitalist Canada. (hypocrite that he is)

Sorry, I dont mean to make you angry, but this is wet bread.

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