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[quote=Anonymous]Guidance, participation, encouragement and involvement are all luxuries. When you're a single parent who's barely scraping by, your watchword is survival, regardless of race. Your goal is getting your family to the next day in one piece. Poor Asian immigrant mothers are almost never single parents in this country, giving them a leg up over other groups. KIPP, SEED, Democracy Prep and other programs offering extended school day, short school vacations, Saturday school and so forth are on the right track, keeping kids away from environments where survival is the focus to a greater extent than traditional schools do. Full-day early childhood programs don't hurt either. Poor AA parents see the benefit and flock to such programs. I like to think that a new generation of low-income young people are growing up wiser to the constraints single parenting imposes than an earlier generation. [/quote]
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