Educating Single Mothers for Empowerment

The reason why so much of emphasis is put on the education of single teenage mother is only because of this striking fact that quality professional education is the only way for women empowerment in the long run. Several non-government organizations, church organizations and individuals are now taking these mothers into consideration as deserving funding recipients, so that they can be uplifted in society. Most of the families disown the girls becoming mothers in their teen years, that is because of social norms and community as a whole discriminates with them. This is one of the sole reasons why single teenage mothers have to live in separate houses, earn money at such a young age when they have not even completed their education. Due to low education and academic profile they are bound to settle for inferior jobs that allow them only a limited or no career growth at all.

The federal and state governments in America are totally awake to the situation and a federal agency known as FAFSA has been established to keenly monitor, analyze and provide education funding opportunities to them in all American states. Although this agency is primarily devoted to providing proper educational scholarships but it also serves the cause of ascertaining the eligibility of these needy single mothers. This is based on the principle that empowerment of women through education would allow them to uplift their living standard in the long run as they would be able to get much better jobs. The educational scholarships provided by numerous agencies or resources are mostly Merit Based or Need Based. These criterion help single teenage mothers with better marks percentages in case of merit based scholarships while the applicants with really low or below threshold income are provided with need based scholarships.

Moreover, various specialized education scholarships are also offered for the single teenage mothers in America. These scholarships are mainly provided for career fields where the recruitment is relatively low as it certainly is the case for nursing, law enforcement, paramedics, and other career fields. They help the single teenage mothers in getting jobs quickly by providing them with professional training and education for career fields where jobs are much easy to find.

Provision of education to single teenage mothers therefore helps the individuals, government and entire community in lifting themselves in terms of the living standard. Investing in single teenage mothers is therefore the best way of ensuring community growth in the longer run as it would lower the poverty line and allow governments to collect more taxes as most of the individuals would be good income generators in the community as a whole.

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