Growing Up With a Single Parent: What Hurts, What HelpsHarvard University Press, 1994 - 196 Seiten Nonwhite and white, rich and poor, born to an unwed mother or weathering divorce, over half of all children in the current generation will live in a single-parent family--and these children simply will not fare as well as their peers who live with both parents. This is the clear and urgent message of this powerful book. Based on four national surveys and drawing on more than a decade of research, Growing Up with a Single Parent sharply demonstrates the connection between family structure and a child's prospects for success. |
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... average attendance Two - parent families 2.62 80.4 % 37.5 % 4.13 9.83 One - parent families 2.51 80.1 32.2 3.92 9.25 Source : High School and Beyond Study . Note : See text for explanation of categories . One - parent families include ...
... average young white woman ) ; and it TM increases the probability of being idle by only 3 percentage points ( for the average young white man ) . ST Black and Hispanic children come from less advantaged back- grounds than white children ...
... average white child , 2.0 for the average Hispanic child , and 1.8 for the average black child . Finally , the dropout rate for the average white child from a disrupted family is higher than the dropout rate for the average black or ...
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Why We Care about Single Parenthood | 1 |
How Father Absence Lowers Childrens | 19 |
Which Outcomes Are Most Affected | 39 |
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Growing Up with a Single Parent: What Hurts, What Helps Sara McLanahan,Gary D. Sandefur Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2009 |