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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... cause of them . Growing up with a single parent is just one among many factors that put children at risk of failure ... caused by something other than single motherhood . But just as clearly , children with an absent parent are at ...
... cause of single parenthood makes a difference for children who grow up with only one parent , we divided children from disrupted families into three groups : those born to unmarried parents , those with divorced and separated par- ents ...
... cause . As we shall see in the next section , many black mothers have very low incomes prior to be- coming single parents . It is also important to remember that black children in two - parent families have much higher poverty rates ...
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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 |