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| financial support of parents: The College Solution Lynn O'Shaughnessy, 2008-06-06 “The College Solution helps readers look beyond over-hyped admission rankings to discover schools that offer a quality education at affordable prices. Taking the guesswork out of saving and finding money for college, this is a practical and insightful must-have guide for every parent!” —Jaye J. Fenderson, Seventeen’s College Columnist and Author, Seventeen’s Guide to Getting into College “This book is a must read in an era of rising tuition and falling admission rates. O’Shaughnessy offers good advice with blessed clarity and brevity.” —Jay Mathews, Washington Post Education Writer and Columnist “I would recommend any parent of a college-bound student read The College Solution.” —Kal Chany, Author, The Princeton Review’s Paying for College Without Going Broke “The College Solution goes beyond other guidebooks in providing an abundance of information about how to afford college, in addition to how to approach the selection process by putting the student first.” —Martha “Marty” O’Connell, Executive Director, Colleges That Change Lives “Lynn O’Shaughnessy always focuses on what’s in the consumer’s best interest, telling families how to save money and avoid making costly mistakes.” —Mark Kantrowitz, Publisher, FinAid.org and Author, FastWeb College Gold “An antidote to the hype and hysteria about getting in and paying for college! O’Shaughnessy has produced an excellent overview that demystifies the college planning process for students and families.” —Barmak Nassirian, American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers For millions of families, the college planning experience has become extremely stressful. And, unless your child is an elite student in the academic top 1%, most books on the subject won’t help you. Now, however, there’s a college guide for everyone. In The College Solution, top personal finance journalist Lynn O’Shaughnessy presents an easy-to-use roadmap to finding the right college program (not just the most hyped) and dramatically reducing the cost of college, too. Forget the rankings! Discover what really matters: the quality and value of the programs your child wants and deserves. O’Shaughnessy uncovers “industry secrets” on how colleges actually parcel out financial aid—and how even “average” students can maximize their share. Learn how to send your kids to expensive private schools for virtually the cost of an in-state public college...and how promising students can pay significantly less than the “sticker price” even at the best state universities. No other book offers this much practical guidance on choosing a college...and no other book will save you as much money! • Secrets your school’s guidance counselor doesn’t know yet The surprising ways colleges have changed how they do business • Get every dime of financial aid that’s out there for you Be a “fly on the wall” inside the college financial aid office • U.S. News & World Report: clueless about your child Beyond one-size-fits-all rankings: finding the right program for your teenager • The best bargains in higher education Overlooked academic choices that just might be perfect for you |
| financial support of parents: Not Your Parents' Money Book Jean Chatzky, 2010-08-10 For the first time, financial guru and TODAY Show regular Jean Chatzky brings her expertise to a young audience. Chatzky provides her unique, savvy perspective on money with advice and insight on managing finances, even on a small scale. This book will reach kids before bad spending habits can get out of control. With answers and ideas from real kids, this grounded approach to spending and saving will be a welcome change for kids who are inundated by a consumer driven culture. This book talks about money through the ages, how money is actually made and spent, and the best ways for tweens to earn and save money. |
| financial support of parents: The Wall Street Journal. Financial Guidebook for New Parents Stacey L. Bradford, 2009-06-02 A practical approach to affording your kids from cradle to college. Bringing home your bouncing baby boy or girl should be an exciting time of celebration–not cause for worry about how you’re going to pay for feeding, clothing, and caring for your new bundle of expenses. The average family will spend between $11,000 and $16,000 during a new baby’s first year, and more than $200,000 before a kid’s eighteenth birthday. Unfortunately, a second child only doubles your costs, with little economy of scale for each additional baby. Before you start using these statistics as birth control, take a deep breath and know that you can have a family and make a comfortable future for your children while saving for your own important goals. The Wall Street Journal Financial Guidebook for New Parents shows you the way, with information on how to: • Safeguard your child’s well-being with wills, trusts, and life insurance • Best weigh your child-care options and decide whether to go back to work • Save on taxes with child-friendly tax credits and deductions plus tax-advantaged benefits at work • Manage your family’s health-care costs • Save for long-term costs by setting up a college fund • Spend smart and save money at every stage of your child’s development • Continue to contribute to your own retirement savings From maternity (and paternity) leave to flexible spending accounts to 529 college plans, The Wall Street Journal Financial Guidebook for New Parents provides all the information you need to meet your child’s expenses while also protecting your family’s financial security. |
| financial support of parents: Parenting Matters National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Board on Children, Youth, and Families, Committee on Supporting the Parents of Young Children, 2016-11-21 Decades of research have demonstrated that the parent-child dyad and the environment of the familyâ€which includes all primary caregiversâ€are at the foundation of children's well- being and healthy development. From birth, children are learning and rely on parents and the other caregivers in their lives to protect and care for them. The impact of parents may never be greater than during the earliest years of life, when a child's brain is rapidly developing and when nearly all of her or his experiences are created and shaped by parents and the family environment. Parents help children build and refine their knowledge and skills, charting a trajectory for their health and well-being during childhood and beyond. The experience of parenting also impacts parents themselves. For instance, parenting can enrich and give focus to parents' lives; generate stress or calm; and create any number of emotions, including feelings of happiness, sadness, fulfillment, and anger. Parenting of young children today takes place in the context of significant ongoing developments. These include: a rapidly growing body of science on early childhood, increases in funding for programs and services for families, changing demographics of the U.S. population, and greater diversity of family structure. Additionally, parenting is increasingly being shaped by technology and increased access to information about parenting. Parenting Matters identifies parenting knowledge, attitudes, and practices associated with positive developmental outcomes in children ages 0-8; universal/preventive and targeted strategies used in a variety of settings that have been effective with parents of young children and that support the identified knowledge, attitudes, and practices; and barriers to and facilitators for parents' use of practices that lead to healthy child outcomes as well as their participation in effective programs and services. This report makes recommendations directed at an array of stakeholders, for promoting the wide-scale adoption of effective programs and services for parents and on areas that warrant further research to inform policy and practice. It is meant to serve as a roadmap for the future of parenting policy, research, and practice in the United States. |
| financial support of parents: Social Q's Philip Galanes, 2012-11-27 A series of whimsical essays by the New York Times Social Q's columnist provides modern advice on navigating today's murky moral waters, sharing recommendations for such everyday situations as texting on the bus to splitting a dinner check. |
| financial support of parents: Early Adulthood in a Family Context Alan Booth, Susan L. Brown, Nancy S Landale, Wendy D. Manning, Susan M. McHale, 2011-12-10 Early Adulthood in a Family Context, based on the 18th annual National Symposium on Family Issues, emphasizes the importance of both the family of origin and new and highly variable types of family formation experiences that occur in early adulthood. This volume showcases new theoretical, methodological, and measurement insights in hopes of advancing understanding of the influence of the family of origin on young adults' lives. Both family resources and constraints with respect to economic, social, and human capital are considered. |
| financial support of parents: Doing the Best I Can Kathryn Edin, Timothy J. Nelson, 2014-08-15 Across the political spectrum, unwed fatherhood is denounced as one of the leading social problems of today. Doing the Best I Can is a strikingly rich, paradigm-shifting look at fatherhood among inner-city men often dismissed as “deadbeat dads.” Kathryn Edin and Timothy J. Nelson examine how couples in challenging straits come together and get pregnant so quickly—without planning. The authors chronicle the high hopes for forging lasting family bonds that pregnancy inspires, and pinpoint the fatal flaws that often lead to the relationship’s demise. They offer keen insight into a radical redefinition of family life where the father-child bond is central and parental ties are peripheral. Drawing on years of fieldwork, Doing the Best I Can shows how mammoth economic and cultural changes have transformed the meaning of fatherhood among the urban poor. Intimate interviews with more than 100 fathers make real the significant obstacles faced by low-income men at every step in the familial process: from the difficulties of romantic relationships, to decision-making dilemmas at conception, to the often celebratory moment of birth, and finally to the hardships that accompany the early years of the child's life, and beyond. |
| financial support of parents: Families in an Era of Increasing Inequality Paul R. Amato, Alan Booth, Susan M. McHale, Jennifer Van Hook, 2014-10-07 The widening gap between the rich and the poor is turning the American dream into an impossibility for many, particularly children and families. And as the children of low-income families grow to adulthood, they have less access to opportunities and resources than their higher-income peers--and increasing odds of repeating the experiences of their parents. Families in an Era of Increasing Inequality probes the complex relations between social inequality and child development and examines possibilities for disrupting these ongoing patterns. Experts across the social sciences track trends in marriage, divorce, employment, and family structure across socioeconomic strata in the U.S. and other developed countries. These family data give readers a deeper understanding of how social class shapes children's paths to adulthood and how those paths continue to diverge over time and into future generations. In addition, contributors critique current policies and programs that have been created to reduce disparities and offer suggestions for more effective alternatives. Among the topics covered: Inequality begins at home: the role of parenting in the diverging destinies of rich and poor children. Inequality begins outside the home: putting parental educational investments into context. How class and family structure impact the transition to adulthood. Dealing with the consequences of changes in family composition. Dynamic models of poverty-related adversity and child outcomes. The diverging destinies of children and what it means for children's lives. As new initiatives are sought to improve the lives of families and children in the short and long term, Families in an Era of Increasing Inequality is a key resource for researchers and practitioners in family studies, social work, health, education, sociology, demography, and psychology. |
| financial support of parents: Protecting Your Parents' Money Jeff D. Opdyke, 2011-08-09 Wall Street Journal “Love and Money” columnist Jeff D. Opdyke offers a compassionate and highly effective handbook designed to help elderly parents manage their money. Protecting Your Parents’ Money is the essential guide to helping Mom and Dad navigate the finances of retirement, covering such topics as understanding Medicare, preventing elder fraud, and the hunt for a quality, affordable retirement home. Protecting Your Parents’ Money is a book everyone should own, as members of the Baby Boomer generation find themselves dealing with the many financial problems surrounding aging parents, and face their own future as seniors. |
| financial support of parents: On the Frontier of Adulthood Richard A. Settersten Jr., Frank F. Furstenberg, Rubén G. Rumbaut, 2008-09-15 On the Frontier of Adulthood reveals a startling new fact: adulthood no longer begins when adolescence ends. A lengthy period before adulthood, often spanning the twenties and even extending into the thirties, is now devoted to further education, job exploration, experimentation in romantic relationships, and personal development. Pathways into and through adulthood have become much less linear and predictable, and these changes carry tremendous social and cultural significance, especially as institutions and policies aimed at supporting young adults have not kept pace with these changes. This volume considers the nature and consequences of changes in early adulthood by drawing upon a wide variety of historical and contemporary data from the United States, Canada, and Western Europe. Especially dramatic shifts have occurred in the conventional markers of adulthood—leaving home, finishing school, getting a job, getting married, and having children—and in how these experiences are configured as a set. These accounts reveal how the process of becoming an adult has changed over the past century, the challenges faced by young people today, and what societies can do to smooth the transition to adulthood. This book is the most thorough, wide-reaching, and insightful analysis of the new life stage of early adulthood.—Andrew Cherlin, Johns Hopkins University From West to East, young people today enter adulthood in widely diverse ways that affect their life chances. This book provides a rich portrait of this journey-an essential font of knowledge for all who care about the younger generation.—Glen H. Elder Jr., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill On the Frontier of Adulthood adds considerably to our knowledge about the transition from adolescence to adulthood. . . . It will indeed be the definitive resource for researchers for years to come. Anyone working in the area—whether in demography, sociology, economics, or developmental psychology—will wish to make use of what is gathered here.—John Modell, Brown University This is a must-read for scholars and policymakers who are concerned with the future of today's youth and will become a touchpoint for an emerging field of inquiry focused on adult transitions.—Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Columbia University |
| financial support of parents: Silver Spoon Kids Eileen Gallo, Jon Gallo, 2002-01-25 A parent's guide to raising financially responsible children in an age of unprecedented wealth It is natural as parents that we want to give our children the best of everything. And in an age of unprecedented wealth and easy credit, upper- and middle-income parents can indulge that urge like never before. Yet, you have become alarmed over the impact this newfound affluence may be having on your children. You fear that through your generosity you are training your children to be greedy, selfish spendthrifts. The first parenting guide to focus exclusively on this increasingly sensitive topic, Silver Spoon Kids was coauthored by a psychotherapist who counsels people with money-related emotional problems and a lawyer specializing in estate planning. Drawing upon their experiences as members of the renowned NYU Family Wealth Institute, they tell you how to talk to kids about money, how to teach them to handle it responsibly, and how to instill in your kids a sense of giving to their communities. |
| financial support of parents: Negotiating Adolescence in Times of Social Change Lisa J. Crockett, Rainer K. Silbereisen, 2000 The decline of the socialist governments in Eastern and Central Europe and the resulting political and economic reorganizations of the 1990s provided a dramatic illustration of the far-reaching effects of social change. For those interested in the health and well-being of youth, such instances of social upheaval raise the question of how young people are affected socially and psychologically by societal changes, and whether their development is compromised or enhanced. This important volume considers the processes through which societal changes exert an impact on the course of adolescent development and identify individual and contextual factors that can modify the impact of social change and enhance the likelihood of a successful transition to adulthood. |
| financial support of parents: Understanding the Working College Student Laura W. Perna, 2023-07-14 How appropriate for today and for the future are the policies and practices of higher education that largely assume a norm of traditional-age students with minimal on-campus, or no, work commitments?Despite the fact that work is a fundamental part of life for nearly half of all undergraduate students – with a substantial number of “traditional” dependent undergraduates in employment, and working independent undergraduates averaging 34.5 hours per week – little attention has been given to how working influences the integration and engagement experiences of students who work, especially those who work full-time, or how the benefits and costs of working differ between traditional age-students and adult students.The high, and increasing, prevalence and intensity of working among both dependent and independent students raises a number of important questions for public policymakers, college administrators, faculty, academic advisors, student services and financial aid staff, and institutional and educational researchers, including: Why do so many college students work so many hours? What are the characteristics of undergraduates who work? What are the implications of working for students’ educational experiences and outcomes? And, how can public and institutional policymakers promote the educational success of undergraduate students who work? This book offers the most complete and comprehensive conceptualization of the “working college student” available. It provides a multi-faceted picture of the characteristics, experiences, and challenges of working college students and a more complete understanding of the heterogeneity underlying the label “undergraduates who work” and the implications of working for undergraduate students’ educational experiences and outcomes. The volume stresses the importance of recognizing the value and contribution of adult learners to higher education, and takes issue with the appropriateness of the term “non-traditional” itself, both because of the prevalence of this group, and because it allows higher education institutions to avoid considering changes that will meet the needs of this population, including changes in course offerings, course scheduling, financial aid, and pedagogy. |
| financial support of parents: Paying for the Party Elizabeth A. Armstrong, Laura T. Hamilton, 2013-04-08 Two young women, dormitory mates, embark on their education at a big state university. Five years later, one is earning a good salary at a prestigious accounting firm. With no loans to repay, she lives in a fashionable apartment with her fiancé. The other woman, saddled with burdensome debt and a low GPA, is still struggling to finish her degree in tourism. In an era of skyrocketing tuition and mounting concern over whether college is worth it, Paying for the Party is an indispensable contribution to the dialogue assessing the state of American higher education. A powerful exposé of unmet obligations and misplaced priorities, it explains in vivid detail why so many leave college with so little to show for it. Drawing on findings from a five-year interview study, Elizabeth Armstrong and Laura Hamilton bring us to the campus of MU, a flagship Midwestern public university, where we follow a group of women drawn into a culture of status seeking and sororities. Mapping different pathways available to MU students, the authors demonstrate that the most well-resourced and seductive route is a party pathway anchored in the Greek system and facilitated by the administration. This pathway exerts influence over the academic and social experiences of all students, and while it benefits the affluent and well-connected, Armstrong and Hamilton make clear how it seriously disadvantages the majority. Eye-opening and provocative, Paying for the Party reveals how outcomes can differ so dramatically for those whom universities enroll. |
| financial support of parents: Mom and Dad, We Need to Talk Cameron Huddleston, 2019-06-25 Learn to start open, productive talks about money with your parents as they age As your parents age, you may find that you want or need to broach the often-difficult subject of finances. In Mom and Dad, We Need to Talk: How to Have Essential Conversations with Your Parents About Their Finances, you’ll learn the best ways to approach this issue, along with a wealth of financial and legal information that will help you help your parents into and through their golden years. Sometimes parents are reluctant to address money matters with their adult children, and topics such as long-term care, retirement savings (or lack thereof), and end-of-life planning can be particularly touchy. In this book, you’ll hear from others in your position who have successfully had “the talk” with their parents, and you’ll read about a variety of conversation strategies that can make talking finances more comfortable and more productive. Learn conversation starters and strategies to open the lines of communication about your parents’ finances Discover the essential financial and legal information you should gather from your parents to be prepared for the future Gain insight from others’ stories of successfully talking money with aging parents Gather the courage, hope, and motivation you need to broach difficult subjects such as care facilities and end-of-life plans For children of Baby Boomers and others looking to assist aging parents with their finances, Mom and Dad, We Need to Talk is a welcome and comforting read. Although talking money with your parents can be hard, you aren’t alone, and this book will guide you through the process of having fruitful financial conversations that lead to meaningful action. |
| financial support of parents: Not Quite Adults Richard Settersten, Barbara E. Ray, 2010-12-28 Why are 20-somethings delaying adulthood? The media have flooded us with negative headlines about this generation, from their sense of entitlement to their immaturity. Drawing on almost a decade of cutting-edge research and nearly five hundred interviews with young people, Richard Settersten, Ph.D., and Barbara E. Ray shatter these stereotypes, revealing an unexpected truth: A slower path to adulthood is good for all of us. Their surprising findings include • Young adults who finish college and delay marriage and child-rearing get a much better start in life. • Few 20-somethings who live at home are mooching off their parents. More often, they are using the time at home to gain necessary credentials and save money for a more secure future. • Helicopter parents aren’t so bad after all. Involved parents provide young people with advantages, including mentoring and economic support, that have become increasingly necessary to success. Not Quite Adults is a fascinating look at an often misunderstood generation. It’s a must-read for parents, teachers, psychologists, sociologists, and anyone interested in today’s youth culture. Visit www.notquiteadults.com for more information on this revelatory book. |
| financial support of parents: The Factors Effecting Student Achievement Engin Karadağ, 2017-05-14 This book focuses on the effect of psychological, social and demographic variables on student achievement and summarizes the current research findings in the field. It addresses the need for inclusive and interpretive studies in the field in order to interpret student achievement literature and suggests new pathways for further studies. Appropriately, a meta-analysis approach is used by the contributors to show the big picture to the researchers by analyzing and combining the findings from different independent studies. In particular, the authors compile various studies examining the relationship between student achievement and 21 psychological, social and demographic variables separately. The philosophy behind this book is to direct future research and practices rather than addressing the limits of current studies. |
| financial support of parents: (Re)Defining the Goal Kevin J. Fleming, Ph.d., Ph D Kevin J Fleming, 2016-07-02 How is it possible that both university graduates and unfilled job openings are both at record-breaking highs? Our world has changed. New and emerging occupations in every industry now require a combination of academic knowledge and technical ability. With rising education costs, mounting student debt, fierce competition for jobs, and the oversaturation of some academic majors in the workforce, we need to once again guide students towards personality-aligned careers and not just into college. Extensively researched, (Re)Defining the Goal deconstructs the prevalent one-size-fits-all education agenda. The author provides a fresh perspective, replicable strategies, and outlines six proven steps to help students secure a competitive advantage in the new economy. Gain a new paradigm and the right resources to help students avoid the pitfalls of unemployment, or underemployment, after graduation. |
| financial support of parents: Failure to Launch Mark McConville, Ph.D., 2021-01-05 From an expert in adolescent psychology comes a groundbreaking, timely, and necessary guide for parents of the 2.2 million young adults in America who are struggling to find their way in the world. In Dr. Mark McConville's decades of experience as a family clinical psychologist, perhaps no problem has been more fraught than that of young adults who fail to successfully transition from adolescence into adulthood. These kids--technically adults--just can't get it together: They can't hold a job, they struggle to develop meaningful relationships, and they often end up back in their parents' spare bedroom or on the couch. In fact, studies show that one in four Americans aged twenty-five to thirty-four neither work nor attend school, and it's a problem that spans all socioeconomic and geographic boundaries. McConville investigates the root causes of this problem: Why are modern kids failing to launch in ever-increasing numbers? The key, McConville has found, is that they are struggling with three critical skills that are necessary to make the transition from childhood to adulthood--finding a sense of purpose, developing administrative responsibility, and cultivating interdependence. In Failure to Launch, McConville breaks these down into achievable, accessible goals and offers a practical guide for the whole family, to help parents instill those skills in their young adults--and to get their kids into the real world, ready to start their lives. |
| financial support of parents: Paying the Price Sara Goldrick-Rab, 2016-09-01 A “bracing and well-argued” study of America’s college debt crisis—“necessary reading for anyone concerned about the fate of American higher education” (Kirkus). College is far too expensive for many people today, and the confusing mix of federal, state, institutional, and private financial aid leaves countless students without the resources they need to pay for it. In Paying the Price, education scholar Sara Goldrick-Rab reveals the devastating effect of these shortfalls. Goldrick-Rab examines a study of 3,000 students who used the support of federal aid and Pell Grants to enroll in public colleges and universities in Wisconsin in 2008. Half the students in the study left college without a degree, while less than 20 percent finished within five years. The cause of their problems, time and again, was lack of money. Unable to afford tuition, books, and living expenses, they worked too many hours at outside jobs, dropped classes, took time off to save money, and even went without adequate food or housing. In many heartbreaking cases, they simply left school—not with a degree, but with crippling debt. Goldrick-Rab combines that data with devastating stories of six individual students, whose struggles make clear the human and financial costs of our convoluted financial aid policies. In the final section of the book, Goldrick-Rab offers a range of possible solutions, from technical improvements to the financial aid application process, to a bold, public sector–focused “first degree free” program. Honestly one of the most exciting books I've read, because [Goldrick-Rab has] solutions. It's a manual that I'd recommend to anyone out there, if you're a parent, if you're a teacher, if you're a student.—Trevor Noah, The Daily Show |
| financial support of parents: Financial Aid for Higher Education Cooperative Program for Educational Opportunity, United States. Office of Education. Educational Talent Section, 1969 |
| financial support of parents: DEALING WITH THE FINANCIAL BURDEN OF DEADBEAT PARENTS IN CANADA Susan Zeppieri , 2024-04-16 The consequences of deadbeat parents in Canada can be significant and varied. Children may suffer emotionally, financially, and academically due to lack of support. It can strain government resources if they have to step in to provide assistance. Legal actions, such as garnishing wages or seizing assets, may be taken to enforce child support payments. Additionally, it can perpetuate cycles of poverty and instability within families. If you're a parent struggling to fulfill your responsibilities in Canada, here's a guide to help you address the situation: 1. Acknowledge the Issue: Recognize that failing to support your child has consequences for their well-being and future. 2. Seek Assistance: Reach out to local social services or community organizations for support and guidance. They can provide resources, counseling, and assistance in navigating legal processes. 3. Communicate: If possible, communicate with the other parent to find a mutually agreeable solution for supporting your child. 4. Legal Obligations: Understand your legal obligations regarding child support payments. Ignoring these obligations can result in legal consequences, including fines and imprisonment. 5. Financial Planning: Create a budget and financial plan to prioritize child support payments. Consider seeking employment or financial assistance programs to meet your obligations. 6. Seek Employment: If you're unemployed or underemployed, actively seek employment opportunities to ensure you can meet your financial obligations. 7. Mediation: Consider mediation services to resolve disputes and establish a fair child support arrangement. 8. Stay Involved: Even if you're unable to provide financial support, stay involved in your child's life emotionally and physically. Your presence and support can make a significant difference. 9. Stay Informed: Keep yourself informed about your rights and responsibilities as a parent in Canada. Seek legal advice if needed. 10. Commit to Change: Make a commitment to change your Behaviour and take responsibility for your child's well-being. Seek support from friends, family, or support groups if necessary. Remember, addressing the issue and taking steps to fulfill your responsibilities as a parent is crucial for the well-being of your child and for your own peace of mind. |
| financial support of parents: Social Class Annette Lareau, Dalton Conley, 2008-07-10 Class differences permeate the neighborhoods, classrooms, and workplaces where we lead our daily lives. But little is known about how class really works, and its importance is often downplayed or denied. In this important new volume, leading sociologists systematically examine how social class operates in the United States today. Social Class argues against the view that we are becoming a classless society. The authors show instead the decisive ways social class matters—from how long people live, to how they raise their children, to how they vote. The distinguished contributors to Social Class examine how class works in a variety of domains including politics, health, education, gender, and the family. Michael Hout shows that class membership remains an integral part of identity in the U.S.—in two large national surveys, over 97 percent of Americans, when prompted, identify themselves with a particular class. Dalton Conley identifies an intangible but crucial source of class difference that he calls the opportunity horizon—children form aspirations based on what they have seen is possible. The best predictor of earning a college degree isn't race, income, or even parental occupation—it is, rather, the level of education that one's parents achieved. Annette Lareau and Elliot Weininger find that parental involvement in the college application process, which significantly contributes to student success, is overwhelmingly a middle-class phenomenon. David Grusky and Kim Weeden introduce a new model for measuring inequality that allows researchers to assess not just the extent of inequality, but also whether it is taking on a more polarized, class-based form. John Goldthorpe and Michelle Jackson examine the academic careers of students in three social classes and find that poorly performing students from high-status families do much better in many instances than talented students from less-advantaged families. Erik Olin Wright critically assesses the emphasis on individual life chances in many studies of class and calls for a more structural conception of class. In an epilogue, journalists Ray Suarez, Janny Scott, and Roger Hodge reflect on the media's failure to report hardening class lines in the United States, even when images on the nightly news—such as those involving health, crime, or immigration—are profoundly shaped by issues of class. Until now, class scholarship has been highly specialized, with researchers working on only one part of a larger puzzle. Social Class gathers the most current research in one volume, and persuasively illustrates that class remains a powerful force in American society. |
| financial support of parents: Financial Intelligence for Parents and Children Cindy Yu, Hong Zhang, 2017-05-18 This book is the first 3 levels of 4-level FQ4WiseKids series and the 4th level is the 2nd book of the FQ4WiseKids subseries. In a growingly complex economic environment, people needs to develop financial intelligence in many ways. The best way to find an answer is by asking the right question. In the current market, there lacks a comprehensive book with organized knowledge for the daily financial needs in American life. The book meets the demand with a simple and clear Q&A structure. With its eleven subjects in two volumes, it helps people to clarify their needs and feed them with answers right away. All the answers are in layman's language to make it an easy and quick read. It shares with the readers the daily needs like mobile phones, credit cards, taxes, loans, to uncommon endeavors like entrepreneurship, finance, investment, insurance, and so on. Its seemingly small talk formats are perfect navigators for people coming to visit or live and try to find their way in all financial matters of the United States. |
| financial support of parents: Families Caring for an Aging America National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine Division, Board on Health Care Services, Committee on Family Caregiving for Older Adults, 2016-12-08 Family caregiving affects millions of Americans every day, in all walks of life. At least 17.7 million individuals in the United States are caregivers of an older adult with a health or functional limitation. The nation's family caregivers provide the lion's share of long-term care for our older adult population. They are also central to older adults' access to and receipt of health care and community-based social services. Yet the need to recognize and support caregivers is among the least appreciated challenges facing the aging U.S. population. Families Caring for an Aging America examines the prevalence and nature of family caregiving of older adults and the available evidence on the effectiveness of programs, supports, and other interventions designed to support family caregivers. This report also assesses and recommends policies to address the needs of family caregivers and to minimize the barriers that they encounter in trying to meet the needs of older adults. |
| financial support of parents: Happy Parents Happy Kids Ann Douglas, 2019-02-19 Parenting without anxiety, guilt, or feeling overwhelmed Happy Parents Happy Kids is the ultimate no-guilt guide to boosting your enjoyment of parenting while at the same time maximizing the health and happiness of your entire family. You can find ways to take care of yourself while you’re busy raising a family—just as you can choose to use parenting strategies that work for you and your kids. This practical and encouraging book will help you · Discover what less-stressed-out parents know about minimizing the fallout from work-life imbalance (to say nothing of all the other things our generation of parents can’t help but feel anxious about) · Tackle the challenges of distracted parenting(in a way that helps kids to develop healthy relationships with technology) · Balance your hopes and dreams for your children with the demands of the rest of your life · Manage screen time for your whole family with simple and effective strategies · Learn mindfulness strategies that can make parenting easier and can be effortlessly worked into your daily life · Live healthier (including a crash course on the science of habit change) · Become a calmer and more confident parent so that you can stop feeling bad and raise astonishingly great kids The takeaway message is clear, powerful, and potentially life-changing. You can lose the guilt, embrace the joy, and thrive alongside your kids. |
| financial support of parents: Discipline That Connects With Your Child's Heart Jim Jackson, Lynne Jackson, 2016-09-20 A Powerful Approach to Bringing God's Grace to Kids Did you know that the way we deal (or don't deal) with our kids' misbehavior shapes their beliefs about themselves, the world, and God? Therefore it's vital to connect with their hearts--not just their minds--amid the daily behavior battles. With warmth and grace, Jim and Lynne Jackson, founders of Connected Families, offer four tried-and-true keys to handling any behavioral issues with love, truth, and authority. You will learn practical ways to communicate messages of grace and truth, how to discipline in a way that motivates your child, and how to keep your relationship strong, not antagonistic. Discipline is more than just a short-term attempt to modify your child's actions--it's a long-term investment to help them build faith, wisdom, and character for life. When you discover a better path to discipline, you'll find a more well-behaved--and well-believed--kid. |
| financial support of parents: Caring for Mom and Dad Susan Stein-Roggenbuck, 2023-09-30 Explores the programs and policies dependent parents navigated when their own financial resources did not provide adequate support. |
| financial support of parents: Assets for the Poor Thomas M. Shapiro, Edward N. Wolff, 2001-05-17 Over the past three decades, average household wealth in the United States has declined among all but the richest families, with a near 80 percent drop among the nation's poorest families. Although the national debate about inequality has focused on income, it is wealth—the private assets amassed and passed on within families—that provides the extra economic cushion needed to move beyond mere day-to-day survival. Assets for the Poor is the first full-scale investigation into the importance of family wealth and the need for policies to encourage asset-building among the poor. Assets for the Poor shows how institutional mechanisms designed to encourage acquisition of capital and property favor middle-class and high-income families. For example, the aggregate value of home mortgage tax deductions far outweighs the dollar amount of the subsidies provided by Section 8 rental vouchers and public housing. Banking definitions of creditworthiness largely exclude minorities, and welfare rules have made it nearly impossible for single mothers to accumulate savings, let alone stocks or real estate. Due to persistent residential segregation, even those minority families who do own homes are often denied equal access to better schools and public services. The research in this volume shows that the poor do make use of the assets they have. Cash gifts—although small in size—are frequent within families and often lead to such positive results as homebuying and debt reduction, while tangible assets such as tools and cars help increase employment prospects. Assets for the Poor examines policies such as Individual Development Account tax subsidies to reward financial savings among the poor, and more liberal credit rules to make borrowing easier and less costly. The contributors also offer thoughtful advice for bringing the poor into mainstream savings institutions and warn against developing asset building policies at the expense of existing safety net programs. Asset-building for low-income families is a powerful idea that offers hope to families searching for a way out of poverty. Assets for the Poor challenges current thinking regarding poverty reduction policies and proposes a major shift in the way we think about families and how they make a better life. A Volume in the Ford Foundation Series on Asset Building |
| financial support of parents: Medical and Dental Expenses , 1990 |
| financial support of parents: From Here to Equality, Second Edition William A. Darity Jr., A. Kirsten Mullen, 2022-07-27 Racism and discrimination have choked economic opportunity for African Americans at nearly every turn. At several historic moments, the trajectory of racial inequality could have been altered dramatically. But neither Reconstruction nor the New Deal nor the civil rights struggle led to an economically just and fair nation. Today, systematic inequality persists in the form of housing discrimination, unequal education, police brutality, mass incarceration, employment discrimination, and massive wealth and opportunity gaps. Economic data indicates that for every dollar the average white household holds in wealth the average black household possesses a mere ten cents. This compelling and sharply argued book addresses economic injustices head-on and make the most comprehensive case to date for economic reparations for U.S. descendants of slavery. Using innovative methods that link monetary values to historical wrongs, William Darity Jr. and A. Kirsten Mullen assess the literal and figurative costs of justice denied in the 155 years since the end of the Civil War and offer a detailed roadmap for an effective reparations program, including a substantial payment to each documented U.S. black descendant of slavery. This new edition features a new foreword addressing the latest developments on the local, state, and federal level and considering current prospects for a comprehensive reparations program. |
| financial support of parents: School Systems, Parent Behavior, and Academic Achievement Emma Sorbring, Jennifer E. Lansford, 2019-09-17 This volume takes an international and multidisciplinary approach to understanding students’ academic achievement. It does so by integrating educational literature with developmental psychology and family studies perspectives. Each of the nine chapters focuses on a particular country: China, Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, the Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, or the United States. It describes the country as a cultural context, examines the current school system and parenting in light of the school system, and provides empirical evidence from that country regarding links between parenting and students’ academic achievement. The book highlights similarities and differences in education and parenting across these nine countries - all varying widely in socioeconomic and cultural factors that affect schools and families. The volume contributes to greater understanding of links between parenting and academic performance in different cultural groups. It sheds light on how school systems and parenting are embedded in larger cultural settings that have implications for students’ educational experiences and academic achievement. As two of the most important contexts in which children and adolescents spend time, understanding how schools and families jointly contribute to academic achievement holds promise for advancing the international agenda of promoting quality education for all. |
| financial support of parents: The Common Purse Robin Fleming, 1997 This book is based on the three separate studies that made up the Intra Family Income Study ... all of the Māori and Pacific Islands examples are taken from the [studies] ... enriched and extended the examples from the Pākehā study with details ... from unpublished interview notes--P. [vii] and [ix]. |
| financial support of parents: United States Code United States, 2008 |
| financial support of parents: Fatherhood Initiatives United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance. Subcommittee on Social Security and Family Policy, 2001 |
| financial support of parents: The Family Jack O. Balswick, Judith K. Balswick, 2007-06 This proven resource covers every issue that affects family life. The third edition includes updates to all chapters and the inclusion of current research. |
| financial support of parents: Living with Children Gerald R. Patterson, 1976 Living With Children gives every parent and teacher a practical technique to deal with children's misbehavior. It is written in down-to-earth language and has been used by thousands of families. Living With Children is written in programmed instruction form to make it especially easy to ready and use. This modern educational method holds your attention and encourages you to participate actively as you read. -- Back cover. |
| financial support of parents: Kids Finance 101 Yvonne Brooks, 2007-07 Kids Finance 101 Kids Finance 101 is an outstanding book, designed to assist parents towards becoming more effective financial mentors for their children. Save when you are young, so that you can enjoy riches when you're older. -Mark, Age 16 This Book Will Teach Parents & Children How To: 1. Become Financially Responsible 2. Establish a Kids Financial Portfolio with Allowance Money 3. Prepare a Simple Kids Budget 4. Invest Wisely 5. Save for College Author, teacher and motivational speaker, Yvonne Brooks is the founder of the Brooks & Brooks Foundation, a non-profit organization that provides a series of leadership and financial education programs for children and their parents. |
| financial support of parents: Parent Burnout Joseph Procaccini, Mark Kiefaber, 1984 |
| financial support of parents: Constructing Social Theory David C. Bell, 2009 Constructing Social Theory discusses the nature of social theory and theoretical orientations. Organized by forty-three theoretical orientations in seven domains--exchange, power, adaptation/reinforcement, social bond, altruism, functionalism, and identity--the text includes a tutorial on how to identify an appropriate theoretical orientation and create a theory given a particular research question. Bell separates the theoretical orientation of causal logic from theory itself, illuminating the mechanisms of scientific revolutions where new theoretical orientations are created, and the procedures of normal science, in which theories are developed using the logic of existing theoretical orientations. |
STRATEGIES AND INNOVATIONS THAT SUPPORT STUDENT …
Below are some specific approaches that postsecondary institutions and external organizations can take to financially support students who are parents. Create incentives for student parents …
PARENTAL FINANCIAL INVOLVEMENTS AND STUDENTS’ …
This is further supported by Moneva et al., (2020) in their study entitled Parental Financial Support and Students Motivation in Learning which states that, having a high level of parents’ financial …
The Financial Well-Being of Parents Pursuing Postsecondary …
What are the basic expenses of a college student who is not receiving support from their parents? What additional expenses does a parent have above and beyond those of students without …
The Role of Parental Wealth and Income in Financing …
We find that higher levels of parents' wealth and income increase the likelihood that children attend college with financial support relative to not attending college, and that parental wealth …
Parental Financial Support and Students Motivation in Learning
The capacity of the parents to provide financially the needs of the students in their studies is referred to as parental financial support. While motivation is the personal drive or will of...
Student Parents and Financial Aid - ed
“Student Parents” are identified as students whose dependents received more than half of their support from the student during the school year. By definition, this qualifies student parents as …
CHILD SUPPORT HANDBOOK - NYC.gov
Oct 4, 2004 · OCSS helps the custodial parent (parent, relative, or guardian who lives with and is the primary caretaker of a minor child) to understand the child support program and provides …
The Relationship of Moral and Financial Support of Parents to …
Results revealed that the parents of BSHRM students were “highly supportive” in extending their financial and moral support. Students’ academic performances were based on their general …
The Financial Journey of Modern Parenting - Merrill Lynch
Parenting journeys are shaped by a variety of factors including household composition, financial situation and prior experience. No two are the same. However, there are common patterns as …
Family Systems and Parents' Financial Support for Education …
Young adults raised outside of two-parent families receive less financial support from their families for education compared with peers who always lived with both parents. We consider how …
Satisfaction with Financial Support and Students’ …
Teachers need to understand and consider their tasks assigned to students through understanding the satisfaction of the students with the financial support of their parents. …
Family Systems and Parents’ Financial Support for ... - Springer
We ask whether and how the structure, fluidity, and dynamic nature of family systems shape the financial support parents provide to their children for postsecondary education. We treat …
Juggling Family and Finances: The Financial Struggles and ... - ed
Parenting students are more likely than non-parenting students to report having financial issues. Public assistance use is more common among students with children than those without. …
Parental Financial Assistance and its Varying Consequences in …
Parental financial support of young adult children is significantly tied to the financial resources and other characteristics of the family of origin. Young adults from middle and upper class families …
Kids, College, and Capital: Parental Financial Support and
parents' plans to use various financial resources to pay for college. Because both parents and children are surveyed, this data provides a unique opportunity to examine how well children's …
Family Systems and Parents Financial Support for Education in …
We consider how parents’ union status over time shapes contributions for young adult children’s education. Our approach emphasizes the dynamic relationship between family structure and …
Parental Financial Education During Childhood and Financial …
Financial educators should involve parents when teaching children about money, and they should educate parents on how to teach their children about money.
FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR SINGLE PARENTS IN CARING FOR …
financial support for single parents in caring for their children: private child support and social assistance may 2015
Parents' economic support of young-adult children - JSTOR
Feb 9, 2019 · Parental support in the form of co-residence or financial gifts can play an important role in ensuring that young people make a successful transition into adult roles.
Expectations and Incentives: Parental Financial Support for …
This study provides new insight into enrollment disparities by examining how the financial support adolescents expect to receive from parents as they transition to young adulthood differs by …
STRATEGIES AND INNOVATIONS THAT SUPPORT STUDENT …
Below are some specific approaches that postsecondary institutions and external organizations can take to financially support students who are parents. Create incentives for student parents …
PARENTAL FINANCIAL INVOLVEMENTS AND STUDENTS’ …
This is further supported by Moneva et al., (2020) in their study entitled Parental Financial Support and Students Motivation in Learning which states that, having a high level of parents’ financial …
The Financial Well-Being of Parents Pursuing Postsecondary …
What are the basic expenses of a college student who is not receiving support from their parents? What additional expenses does a parent have above and beyond those of students without …
The Role of Parental Wealth and Income in Financing …
We find that higher levels of parents' wealth and income increase the likelihood that children attend college with financial support relative to not attending college, and that parental wealth …
Parental Financial Support and Students Motivation in …
The capacity of the parents to provide financially the needs of the students in their studies is referred to as parental financial support. While motivation is the personal drive or will of...
Student Parents and Financial Aid - ed
“Student Parents” are identified as students whose dependents received more than half of their support from the student during the school year. By definition, this qualifies student parents as …
CHILD SUPPORT HANDBOOK - NYC.gov
Oct 4, 2004 · OCSS helps the custodial parent (parent, relative, or guardian who lives with and is the primary caretaker of a minor child) to understand the child support program and provides …
The Relationship of Moral and Financial Support of Parents …
Results revealed that the parents of BSHRM students were “highly supportive” in extending their financial and moral support. Students’ academic performances were based on their general …
The Financial Journey of Modern Parenting - Merrill Lynch
Parenting journeys are shaped by a variety of factors including household composition, financial situation and prior experience. No two are the same. However, there are common patterns as …
Family Systems and Parents' Financial Support for …
Young adults raised outside of two-parent families receive less financial support from their families for education compared with peers who always lived with both parents. We consider how …
Satisfaction with Financial Support and Students’ …
Teachers need to understand and consider their tasks assigned to students through understanding the satisfaction of the students with the financial support of their parents. …
Family Systems and Parents’ Financial Support for ... - Springer
We ask whether and how the structure, fluidity, and dynamic nature of family systems shape the financial support parents provide to their children for postsecondary education. We treat …
Juggling Family and Finances: The Financial Struggles and
Parenting students are more likely than non-parenting students to report having financial issues. Public assistance use is more common among students with children than those without. …
Parental Financial Assistance and its Varying Consequences in …
Parental financial support of young adult children is significantly tied to the financial resources and other characteristics of the family of origin. Young adults from middle and upper class families …
Kids, College, and Capital: Parental Financial Support and …
parents' plans to use various financial resources to pay for college. Because both parents and children are surveyed, this data provides a unique opportunity to examine how well children's …
Family Systems and Parents Financial Support for Education …
We consider how parents’ union status over time shapes contributions for young adult children’s education. Our approach emphasizes the dynamic relationship between family structure and …
Parental Financial Education During Childhood and Financial …
Financial educators should involve parents when teaching children about money, and they should educate parents on how to teach their children about money.
FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR SINGLE PARENTS IN CARING …
financial support for single parents in caring for their children: private child support and social assistance may 2015
Parents' economic support of young-adult children - JSTOR
Feb 9, 2019 · Parental support in the form of co-residence or financial gifts can play an important role in ensuring that young people make a successful transition into adult roles.
