Single Mothers in Poverty
Raising ELL Children
"It takes a village to raise a child!"
Parent, family, and community
Low-Income Environments
-1 book per every 300 children in low-income neighborhoods v.s
13 books per 1 child in middle-income neighborhoods
-Single-parent families are almost twice as likely to have low incomes compared to all families with children, and almost three times as likely to have low incomes compared to married-couple families with children
-Health problems are more prevalent among low-income families, and these families are more likely to be uninsured
-Two-thirds of ELL students come from low-income families and nearly half of ELLs in grades pre-K to 5th have parents who did not graduate from high school
The Harsh Reality Of Immigrant Women
- Immigrant women suffer abuse particularly from partners who use the woman’s immigration status to keep them from leaving an abusive marriage or relationship
- A 2011 report from the Applied Research Center found that more than 5,000 children living in foster care had parents who had been detained or deported from the United States
- They estimate that another 15,000 children will end up in foster care in the next five years because of immigration enforcement