Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Revised Bibliographies

Bibliography #1


Help For Low-Income Pregnant Families Women And Families.” babycenter.com. BabyCenter. n.d Jan. 2011.

In this article, Judy Meehan states that “getting medical care in pregnancy, and keeping all of your doctors’ appointments, is essential to your health and baby’s development. Eating healthy foods is important. Help is available, and government programs can connect you to care.” The article also talks about various organizations locally dedicated just to low pregnancy income families to improve infant and prenatal care. Some families do not have enough money for health insurance so they can apply for Medicaid or call the low-cost medical care for help.

This author is making an argument to help those families with low incomes to help pay for their newborn’s necessities. By placing baby pictures and videos on the website which gives us a reputable feel of the work. The website is effective but then again I feel like they should strictly focus on one key element which is the low-income pregnancy families. The audience is women who are having trouble coming up with money to feed their newborns due to low income or no health insurance. I intentionally thought that the topic was “low-income families” but it veered off. This ties into the agency because Baby Steps focuses on low income pregnancy families. The author is making a pitch about helping families out.

I believe this source is bias because they aimed towards single low-come women. Women who are pregnant in general need help getting money to raise a baby. The article also aimed more towards “advertisement” rather than strictly sticking to talking about Baby Steps. There was a picture of advertising a car at the top of the page and at the bottom of the page, they were advertising credit cards. This made me kind of skeptical because it was jumping from various topics on the page. The credibility also makes me leery because there was a comment box at the bottom so people can add their opinions about anything on the page-cars, credit cards or even the topic “low-income pregnant women.” Baby Steps and this article are similar due to the fact that the organization do help women out by distributing diapers, clothes and cribs.

I had a more better understanding of the source as a whole because I wasn’t reading it for the gist of getting the blog down but I actually thought of the material. I feel that I need to learn why they must put other advertisements on the website. I also want to learn why there is other subjects on the website such as baby shower tips, best celebrities, girl scouts and some other things which are irrelevant to low income families. I want to know why there is a list of other pregnancy topics on the side of the page. The information they should have included which would have been helpful were to discuss why women have no money in general and is the government really helping these low-income families out.


Revised Bibliography #2


Rinaldo, Denise. "The Touch Life Of A Teen Mom." Scholastic Choices 25.4 (2010): 4-7. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 7 Feb. 2011.

In this article, “The Touch Life Of A Teen Mom” Denise Rinaldo describes how United States has the highest teen birth rate in the industrialized world. Every year the number of teen pregnancies increase. Rinaldo also discuss the downfalls of teen moms. Teen moms are likely to drop out of school and experience poverty. In this article, 16 year old Jesseca Heatherly talks about her story about being a teen mom. She did the opposite of any typical mom does in life. She went to school and got money from her job.

This article is aimed towards teen moms. Jesseca talks about her struggles and what she went through to overcome those struggles. Between school, work, and caring for her daughter, Bella, Jesseca has no free time for herself. She is extremely happy with an organization called The Children and Family Resource Center. She relied on them for help such as food, diapers and everything a baby might need. I think that this article is a little bias due to the fact that it only aims to teen moms instead of pregnant moms in general. All mothers need help regardless if you’re single or not. Raising a baby is money. As for credibility, there is pics of Jesseca and her baby reading a book and eating cake which makes the story seem true. The credibility of this article is legitimate due to the fact that I did get it from the library website. The University only post valid information which makes this source reliable. “I would always say I wasn’t going to get married or pregnant until I was 30 years old,” was a motto Jesseca lived by. I found this interesting because she did the exact opposite. She got pregnant at 16 and quickly realized her life would be difficult.

This article applies to Baby Steps because just as in the article Jesseca used a program called The Children and Family Resource Center. The group helped her get medical care while she was pregnant just as baby Steps does with women of low income. The program also helped Jesseca enroll in an alternative high school with an on-site-day-care center. Teen moms as well as single moms are steadily increasing. Jesseca is raising awareness that teen moms can graduate from high school. That is a big accomplishment because most teen moms give up on their education. The program helped her get a job from day care and she applied to college. I agree with everything the Family Resource Center does because it parallels with what Baby Steps tries to aim. This article connected with my argument that teen moms can go back to school and live above the poverty line because if Jesseca can do it, anyone can. The benefits of joining a low-income pregnancy organization is that they help moms abundantly.

I feel like why do single teen moms have to rely on an organization to get through their problems. Jesseca couldn’t rely on a family member to help her out financially? As I went to orientation the women there are in the same predicament as Jesseca is. Most of them are teen moms with no spouse and have no money coming in. Baby Steps is a good program to help with low income families.


Revised Bibliography #3


Jeffers, Glenn. "Single Dads: Fathering And Mothering." Ebony 57.8 (2002): 88. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 7 Feb. 2011.

This article takes you inside the lives of two black single male parents and what they go through on the daily basis-with dating, day care and financial needs. Alfonso Morrell and Dr. Forrest King Jr play the role of being a father and mother. They cook, clean, wash clothes and discipline while providing a masculine role model for their son.

This articles is aimed towards black single fathers that play the role of a father and mother. These two men are breaking the barriers that all black men are unwilling or unable to take care of their children. “Thousands of fathers are stepping up and taking care of their responsibility,” quoted by Jeffers. Morrell and Dr. King are primes examples of this quote. Some dads out here in the world, make a baby and don’t take up for their responsibility. This article is bias because it looks at single fathers from one aspect of the spectrum-racially. It also leans to single mothers and how men need to remarry so that their child can have a mother figure in their life and to share their responsibility with. As for credibility, the source is true because it’s a real life account of two single male fathers trying to provide for their children. Dr. King is financially independent and that’s a plus in his case. As for other fathers like Morrell he has help from his sisters. I also got this article from the University library databases. They only post and publish valid information which makes this article reliable and true to believe.

This article ties in with Baby steps because when I went to orientation there were single parents everywhere in that agency. Women who came with a support system gained points. At the end of the orientation, the women can take their point booklets to the baby store to buy diapers, clothes, cribs and other baby necessities with their points. This article ties in with me because my grandfather raised me and he was a single father with 5 kids. My grandpa was also like my mother when she was away for a bit. I agree that men can play the role of both father and mother because I know a lot of parents that are doing it right now. My uncle is a father of two kids and he’s a single parent. He resembles the life of Morrell and King.

These two men had a goal of raising their children to be confident, strong, and responsible men which they lead by example. I want to learn why organizations don’t help single fathers out. Baby Steps only help women who are pregnant. I see a discrepancy between the two. Shouldn’t the agencies be able to help men too? I also think that men should be rewarded just are women are in Baby Steps. They get free diapers, clothes and cribs just by going to doctor appointments and attending the classes at the organization. Single fathers should be treated the same as women do regardless of gender.

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