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 families expected to go to college . As we will see , these students were not very far off the mark - family disruption reduced their chances of going to college by about 5 percentage points . Children from disrupted families are ...
... family . The white - black com- parison in dropout rates is especially striking . White children from disrupted families have a much higher dropout rate than black children from two - parent families , and they have virtually identical ...
... disrupted families have a 29 percent chance of graduating . To examine how children from disadvantaged backgrounds are affected by family disruption , we selected ... parent and disrupted families are not Which Outcomes Are Most Affected 61.
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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 |