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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... single fathers than with single mothers . There are several reasons for thinking that fathers might make better single parents than mothers . Clearly , fathers have more in- come . If lack of economic resources is the key to why divorce ...
... 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 account for their children's higher success rate ...
... Single mothers and remarried mothers , we found , are less likely to share meals with their children ( especially the dinner meal ) than mothers in two - parent families ( Table 6 ) . The absolute difference in meal time is small - less ...
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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 |