Alex Grealish
Richard Samuelson
English 102
30 January 2011
Extended Bibliography (1)
Raising Rents Challenge Families
1.Pratt, Renee. "Foreclosures, Unemployment Compel Many to Seek Housing Assistance." Rising Rents
Challenge Families | The Tennessean | Tennessean.com(12 Jan. 2011). The Tennessean. 12 Jan. 2011.
Web. 31 Jan. 2011.
2. Pratt writes about the many factors that low income families struggle with, the main one being housing
costs, such as low-housing, primarily funded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
(Pratt cost, 4)” that the people struggle with because, “there are long waiting lists for these programs
(Pratt, 4)” .Metro Social Services is a services that helps them with their basic needs to they can worry
less about the small things and focus on more important things. It is thought that the families spend the
majority of their income on housing leaving less money for other essential items. With the raising cost
of housing people are at higher risk of becoming homeless. Housing that is the decently affordable are
mostly located in dangerous areas putting them at risk with dangerous people and toxins. This service
has been getting calls to help with, “child care, economic opportunity, food, health, housing, neighborhood
development and work-force development”.
3. This article is bias in that it gives you facts from mostly one side. The facts support that the people
are spending the majority of their money on housing, the housing costs are rising, and unemployment
rates. They are trying to make a point that we need to do something about what’s happening by giving us
all the facts but not from both sides. They don’t mention percentages on how the government is helping
and what they are doing to try and change this, or if they even are trying. It is an affective website in that
they make the information clear and to the point and easy to help by giving lots of information on how the
service is helping.
4. This site helps me to see what it is that these low income families have to deal with. The stress of
having to worry about such an important thing as a house before you can worry about the small things
that matter just as much would be unbelievably scary. Whose to say a bed or food is less important
than shelter. That kind of decision would be hard to make. These families have to make those kinds of
decisions and that would be awful. If we could help with the smaller things so that they could focus more
on housing, that little bit could go along way.
5. This article was very helpful. I felt it coming from a news site and with lots of facts
and numbers also made me trust it more. I like the emphasis they place on how much
these families have to stress about housing makes me want to take the weight off their
shoulders about the little things. Babysteps is definitely something that can help them
do just that for them. That’s one less thing for them to stay up at night and worry about.
Those are the little things that can help someone tremendously .
Alex Grealish
Richard Samuelson
English 102
7 February 2011
Extended Bibliography (2)
1. Weitoft, Gunilla Ringbäck (2008). "Health and social outcomes among children in low-
income families and families receiving social assistance—A Swedish national cohort
study.". Social science & medicine (1982) (0277-9536), 66 (1), p. 14.
2. Weitoft states that statistics on children with families in long term social assistances
and their future health factors such as abuse with drugs and alcohol, suicides and
deaths, as well as their education compared to the rest of the population. It was
concluded that the families with the long term assistance were most affected so are
then opened too "evidence based prevention programs" in the areas in which they most
need help in. Weitoft also discovered that the health and social outcomes of the children
growing up in homes with long term social assistances were worse than those in just
low income houses.
3. The credibility of this article is very legitimate. The evidence, statistics and many
many observations are listed with reasoning behind every answer. The sources cited
are also very long and in lots of detail just like the whole rest of the article. There are
multiple tables throughout the article as well organizing the conclusions they have come
across.the author was not being bias in his writings. The document was full of facts and
numbers that helped support not just his hypothesis but what really goes on in families
with social assistances.
4.The author's ideas extend from my thoughts in that I would think people in low income
families would do better when in long term social assistances compared to those who
were not. But to their conclusions it was the opposite of what i had thought. I thought
what they found was very interesting, how it affects not only their social lives when they
are older but their physical well being too. The health issues associated to how they
were raised extended from my thoughts too.
5. Questions I have on my source would be the kinds of social assistances were used
by the families. I think that is a huge role in why the kids ended up in the ways that they
did. How involved were the social assistances too? Were they just meetings once a
month or which kinds? The factors are things I would have liked to have been defined
for me to more accurately understand why their conclusions were they way they were.
Alex Grealish
Richard Samuelson
English 102
7 February 2011
Extended Bibliography (3)
1. Cobb, Joletha. "Grandparents Raising Grandchildren: Becoming Parents Again for
Our Children's Children." Suite101.com: Online Magazine and Writers' Network. 04 July
2007. Web. 09 Feb. 2011.
grandchildren-a25117>.
2. Cobb's article explains the hardships for grandparents raising children all over
again. The reasons for why they have to are among many different reasons, and the
difficulties of accepting the responsibilities of another child whether it was their choice
or not. These grandparents are sometimes physically not able to assume full care of the
grandchild either. They require full attention and dedication and the website gives ideas
to help them in joining or starting support groups with other grandparents going through
the same situations.
3. I believe this source is credible. They give challenges and difficulties found in
raising children for a second time, and offer ways of help through support groups.
On the side bars are links to references, and related articles and topics for people to
further research on. The site also offers support by telling feelings or obstacles the
grandparents might be having or going through, showing that there are others out there
going through the same thing.
4. For the article I question why they don't have more helpful links or support numbers
that they could be put into contact with rather than just ideas to get help. Ideas on how
to get help are nice but other information that could offer direct help would be better.
The author's ideas extend on my thoughts because it must be hard to go though raising
children after having been out of that kind of act for years or maybe even decades. The
emotional, physical and financial hardships all come back to them for another 18 years.
5. I feel the article could have gone into more depth and detail with how grandparents
are affected. Some numbers and statistics would have been nice to have a starting
number in my head to think about. There could have been more background information
so that the readers not personally affected by what the article was on could more better
understand it. As I had mentioned before, more helpful links would have been great. I
don't think it could have been that hard to cite and add into their article for the people
reading it who are affected by this, so why didn't they?
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