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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... children's well - being . These models provide a more conservative estimate of the effect of family instability on children.14 This part of our analysis is limited , however . Most of the indicators of child well - being that we look at ...
... children in two - parent and single - parent families , although again the overall pattern is the same as it was for the other indicators of child well - being . Mobility accounts for about 60 percent of the difference between children ...
... childbearing and idleness . All of the coefficients . are large and two are statistically significant . In sum , the bivariate equation models indicate that coming from a disrupted family reduces child well- being by a considerable ...
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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 |