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 do better when they live with single fathers than with single mothers . There are several reasons for thinking that fathers might make better single parents than mothers . Clearly , fathers have more in- come . If lack of ...
... CHILD WELL - BEING ? We have shown that living in a single - parent family is associated with less family income and higher poverty rates for children . We now ask whether income in adolescence accounts for any of the differences in child ...
... children living with a divorced mother and about 33 percent of the children living with a never - married or remarried mother had no contact at all with their fathers during the past year , according to the NFSH data ( Figure 12 ) . In ...
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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 |