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 parents . De- mographers now predict that half of all children who will live with single parents in the future will do so because of a nonmarital birth.23 Clearly , to fully understand the consequences of single par- enthood ...
... single parenthood large enough to merit our concern ? Is the experience of single parenthood similar for all racial and ethnic groups and for children born to married and unmarried parents ? How much of the difference in children's ...
... single mothers . Whatever disadvantages may arise from remarriage are more than made up for by the income advantage of these families . A striking finding ( evident in Figure 8 ) is the strong association between single parenthood and ...
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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 |