2. Children of Incarcerated Parents
Children of Divorce
Teen Moms
Gay Teens
3. Disproportionately of color
Stigma/Secrecy
Problems with maintaining a relationship
◦ Letter writing should be encouraged
Lack of awareness, acceptance and support at
school
4. 1970 to 2003:
◦ frequency of single mother families increased from
12% to 26%,
◦ Frequency of single father families increased from
1% to 6%
Estimates: 50-60% of children born in 1990s
will live in a single parent home at some point
5. Relocation/Social complications
Income: loss of second income
◦ Parent may work increased hours/second job
◦ Less money for extra curricular activities
◦ Less time available with parent
Lower GPA
Higher instances of tardiness
Higher drop out rate
Guilt
6. Girls
◦ Internalize
◦ More likely to seek counseling/social support but
less likely to be satisfied with results
◦ Depression
Boys
◦ Externalize
◦ More likely to “act out” in class
◦ Longer period of maladjustment
7. • Title IX (1972)
– guarantees the right of pregnant and parenting
teens to an education equal to that of her peers
• Teenage pregnancy largely considered a
moral issue rather than an educational one
– A “national scandal” associated with a failure of
American society
8. Approximately half to two-thirds of all female
student school dropouts cite pregnancy as
their primary reason for leaving school
Teenage mothers receive an average of two years
fewer schooling than their non-parenting peers
Status-failure versus status-conflict
Stereotyping versus statistics
Personal, social, and economic influences and
implications
9. “Out” students had half a Most schools have anti-
grade point lower than those bullying policies, but fail to be
“closeted” specific
28% of
homosexual
Lessons Learned:
teens drop out of
Michigan,
high school -
Minnesota, and
more than 3
Christian groups
times compared
to straight Bullying of
students Gay Teens
& Education
Solutions: Anti-Bullying Summit, School-Wide Efforts
10. Cyberbullying Suicide
Contagion
•Cyberspace is a •Suicide publicity
popular playground leads to hysteria or
for bullies prevention efforts
•67% of bullying •Media coverage
occurs when adults often sensational
aren’t present
•Depression as
•Victims of cause, not bullying?
cyberbullying have
easy access to suicide
websites
Bullied to Death?
11. Stigma/Secrecy
Lack of awareness, acceptance and support at
school
Family Structure
Income
Problematic behavior
Lower level of academic achievement
Lack of representation in dominant culture
Emotional distress
12. Raise awareness
Open dialogue in classroom
Involve populations in curriculum
Safe zones
Vigilance for discrimination
◦ Better reporting of bullying incidents
Support groups
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