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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... born outside marriage and those born within marriage in most of our analyses of disrupted families . This distinction has become increasingly blurred over time , as divorce and cohabitation have become more common . Nearly a third of ...
... born in the 1940s and early 1950s were more likely to become teen mothers than women born after 1952 , and they were more likely to be married at the time their first child was born . Of the women in our sample who were born between ...
... born outside marriage are born to formerly married women and about a quarter are born to cohabiting parents , about two thirds of whom eventually marry each other . In the next section we shall see that never - married single mothers ...
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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 |