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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... sample to those who had completed high school . The difference in the risk of being idle between children in two - parent and one - parent families was virtually the same , as shown in Figure 3 , even after high school dropouts were ...
... sample that included all sophomores who were living with both parents in 1980. There were about 6,400 children in the change sample . The primary aim of the HSB study was to collect information on school characteristics and students ...
... samples . Our main sample ( NSFH , Cohort 1 ) consists of men and women who were between the ages of twenty and thirty - four in 1987. These individuals were born close to the same time as respondents in the other three surveys ...
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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 |