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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... Dropping out of high school , for example , is an event with serious and long - term negative consequences . If we want to know whether divorce pro- duces long - term poverty and welfare dependence , this is the edu- cational transition ...
... dropping out of high school for the average white child by 17 percentage points ( Table 2 ) ; it increases the probability of becoming a teen mother by 14 percentage points ( for the average young white woman ) ; and it increases the ...
... dropping out of school or early childbearing . Children who experience family disruption before they are five years old have about the same chance of dropping out of school and having a child before age twenty as children who experience ...
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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 |