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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... remarried . Single parents may be divorced , separated , never married , or widowed . We reserve the term " two - parent family " for children who were living with both biological parents at age sixteen . While stepfamilies are often ...
... remarriage is not very common among black single mothers ( the ratio of single mothers to remarried mothers is 2 to 1 ) , we cannot rule out the possibility that mothers who remarry are more advantaged to begin with , which might ...
... remarried during the five years under scrutiny , we raise the average postdivorce income of the group , and thereby underestimate the average income loss caused by divorce . Unfortunately , the PSID sample is not large enough to allow ...
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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 |