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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... parent less successful in adulthood , on average , than children who grow up with both parents ? Another is : Are children with an absent parent less successful than children from two - parent families with similar known characteristics ...
... two months . A score of 12 indicates a perfect record ; a score of 0 ... Children from one - parent families do less well than their peers on four ... parent families is the school attitude measure . Children from one - parent families ...
... children from advantaged two - parent families have a 37 percent chance of graduating from college , whereas black children from advantaged disrupted families have a 29 percent chance of graduating . To examine how children from ...
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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 |