User:GraceRinaldi/Choose an Article

Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1

 * Article title
 * Parental Abuse by Children


 * Article Evaluation
 * From the beginning of the article readers are told that this article needs a lot of work. That being said I found the introductory paragraph to be very good. It summarized to its readers exactly what was about to be discussed in this article. The language, so in other words the grammar and tone of this paper is one not good, and very confusing. At one point they discuss the verbal and physical abuse children can treat their parents with, that leaves parents humiliated. Then, the article discusses how children must only act this way if they are exposed to some kind of abuse themselves. It leaves things a little confusing as to what is the argument here. If it's the endless cycle of parents abusing children and children abusing them back how do we treat it? I'm not discrediting this article because I was drawn to the title. As I feel there is an issue with parental abuse by children, but I couldn't agree more that with some more medical evidence this could be a lot more of a reliable article.


 * Sources
 * Needs more medical references for verification and also noted that a lot of the sources are not specific, therefore not reliable.

Option 2

 * Article title
 * Single Parents in the United States


 * Article Evaluation
 * The article opened up with a good first sentence. My first critique of the article is that there are a lot of numbers. A lot of percentages of different birth rates for years, single parent rates one states, overall USA, too much numbers. When I got to read an education article it becomes overwhelming when you are embraced with all different years and percentages. I think once you got down to the part of the article where it discussed single mothers, and then single fathers it did a nice job talking about different cultural differences but overall again a lot of numbers. The tone of the whole article was not very sensitive to those parents who are single parents.


 * Sources
 * One source that was noted was the Non-martial birth rates between 1940 to 2014. This article could use some updated sources.

Option 3

 * Article title
 * Nuclear Family
 * Article Evaluation
 * In the first paragraph alone this article summarizes what a Nuclear family is depicted as being. I think it’s very important that this article has been updated, and now states that Nuclear families was the most popular family structure specifically between the 1950s to 1970s. It’s important that this article recognized with recent updated information that nowadays Nuclear families have decreased while family structures like single parents, and or blended families have increased. This article did a nice job not only describing what a Nuclear family is but stating how life has drastically changed since the development of the family structure Nuclear families brought to society. I found the language of the article to be appropriate until I read through the talk section and noticed how many individuals that are apart of the LGBTQ+ community did not feel that way.
 * In the first paragraph alone this article summarizes what a Nuclear family is depicted as being. I think it’s very important that this article has been updated, and now states that Nuclear families was the most popular family structure specifically between the 1950s to 1970s. It’s important that this article recognized with recent updated information that nowadays Nuclear families have decreased while family structures like single parents, and or blended families have increased. This article did a nice job not only describing what a Nuclear family is but stating how life has drastically changed since the development of the family structure Nuclear families brought to society. I found the language of the article to be appropriate until I read through the talk section and noticed how many individuals that are apart of the LGBTQ+ community did not feel that way.


 * Sources
 * United States Census Bureau was a great source the article utilized, with charts and explanations that added great depth to the article.
 * United States Census Bureau was a great source the article utilized, with charts and explanations that added great depth to the article.