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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... childbearing . They are also less likely to be in the labor force . While much of the association between early childbearing and educational attainment may be due to differences in family background rather than to teen mother- hood ...
... Childbearing Living with a single parent affects early family formation via two routes . First , it lowers family income , which reduces a young woman's assessment of the costs of early childbearing . A teenager who does not expect to ...
... childbearing , and idleness , respec- tively . The Rho coefficients , which are reported in the last row , tell us whether the unobservables or error terms for the equations predicting family disruption and child outcomes are correlated ...
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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 |