Child's Empty Space: Absentee Parenting
Chapter 1
THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND
Tittle: The Empty Space, Absentee Parenting
Introduction
“Let no man despise thy youth; but he thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity”.
I Timothy 4:12
This study present new research on the effects of the empty space-absentee parenting in the children’s holistic development. It may be one of the least controversial statements in American education: Parent involvement can make a difference in a child’s education. Two-thirds of teachers surveyed (Public Agenda, 2003) believed that their students would perform better in school if their parents were more involved in their child’s education, while 72% of parents say children of uninvolved parents sometimes “fall through the cracks” in schools (Johnson & Duffett, 2003).
The conflict can come, though, on how to create that involvement, and whether all involved feel the particular activities are worthwhile. Do all the PTA meetings, take-home flyers and Back to School nights actually generate increases in student achievement? In this short paper, the Center for Public Education examines the research on the value of a school’s parent involvement activities on student outcomes (http://www.centerforpubliceducation.org/Parent Involvement). Luper (2011) first post on the subject of absentee parent. An absentee parent isn’t a soldier deployed to serve their country, or a spouse working a job that keeps them away from home for extended periods. An absent parent refers to non-custodial parent who is obligated to pay partial child support and who is physically absent from the child's home. The term also refers to a parent who has abandoned his or her child, and failed to maintain contact with the child (uslegal.com). Parent whose continued absence from the home interrupts or terminates the parent’s ability to provide maintenance, physical care or guidance for the child. Technically, the absent parent is
THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND
Tittle: The Empty Space, Absentee Parenting
Introduction
“Let no man despise thy youth; but he thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity”.
I Timothy 4:12
This study present new research on the effects of the empty space-absentee parenting in the children’s holistic development. It may be one of the least controversial statements in American education: Parent involvement can make a difference in a child’s education. Two-thirds of teachers surveyed (Public Agenda, 2003) believed that their students would perform better in school if their parents were more involved in their child’s education, while 72% of parents say children of uninvolved parents sometimes “fall through the cracks” in schools (Johnson & Duffett, 2003).
The conflict can come, though, on how to create that involvement, and whether all involved feel the particular activities are worthwhile. Do all the PTA meetings, take-home flyers and Back to School nights actually generate increases in student achievement? In this short paper, the Center for Public Education examines the research on the value of a school’s parent involvement activities on student outcomes (http://www.centerforpubliceducation.org/Parent Involvement). Luper (2011) first post on the subject of absentee parent. An absentee parent isn’t a soldier deployed to serve their country, or a spouse working a job that keeps them away from home for extended periods. An absent parent refers to non-custodial parent who is obligated to pay partial child support and who is physically absent from the child's home. The term also refers to a parent who has abandoned his or her child, and failed to maintain contact with the child (uslegal.com). Parent whose continued absence from the home interrupts or terminates the parent’s ability to provide maintenance, physical care or guidance for the child. Technically, the absent parent is