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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... divorce reduces children's school performance and social ad- justment.2 21 While these newer studies of white middle - class divorce repre- sent a major advancement in our knowledge of the effects of family instability on children ...
... divorce . The economic status of divorced mothers usually goes down after divorce , whereas the status of divorced fathers goes up . ' 19 A major reason family income is unevenly distributed across households is that many nonresident ...
... divorce reduces men's lifetime earnings , at least for those men who do not quickly remarry.5 The psychological well - being of fathers is also negatively affected by divorce . Com- pared with married fathers , divorced fathers ...
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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 |