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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... difference in dropout rates is 10 percentage points before and after adjusting for differences in income . This is about what we would expect . As noted earlier , stepfamilies and two - parent families have very similar levels of income ...
... difference in income accounts for as much as half of the difference in school achievement and early childbear- ing of children in single - parent and two - parent families . While suggestive , this evidence is not sufficient to support ...
... difference before adjusting for parental behavior , and the second bar shows the difference in well - being after adjusting for these factors . By comparing the two bars , we can see how much of the difference in child well - being 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 |