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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... Figures 1 , 3 , and 4 of Chapter 3. In Figure 1 , for example , the difference in high school dropout was 10 percentage points for the PSID , whereas in Figure 10 it is only 6 percentage points for children from single - parent families ...
... Figure 10 , although they come close . This is because Figure 11 is based on a different sample of children — children whose parents stayed together until the children were at least age twelve . The fact that the differentials are quite ...
... figure ) . These data have only one measure of community quality ( school dropout rate ) , and the measure of residential mobility is limited to whether or not a move occurred during high school . Nevertheless , the pattern in these ...
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Why We Care about Single Parenthood | 1 |
How Father Absence Lowers Childrens | 19 |
Which Outcomes Are Most Affected | 39 |
Urheberrecht | |
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Growing Up with a Single Parent: What Hurts, What Helps Sara McLanahan,Gary D. Sandefur Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2009 |