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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... to be married at the time their first child was born . Of the women in our sample who were born between 1943 and 1952 and who became teen mothers during the 1950s and early sixties , approximately 75 percent were married when they gave ...
... becoming a teen mother is between 1.5 and 2 times as great . This translates into a very large absolute effect because the underlying risk is very high to begin with . Thus , the probability of dropping out of high school or becoming a ...
... becoming a teen mother as young women whose parents divorced ( the 4 percentage point difference is not statisti- cally significant ) , whereas young women who experience the loss of a parent through death are much less likely to become ...
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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 |