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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... Early Childbearing Living with a single parent affects early family formation via two routes . First , it lowers family income , which reduces a young woman's assessment of the costs of early childbearing . A teenager who does not ...
... childbearing appears to be a fairly recent phenomenon in the United States . This could be due in part to changes in the marital status of single mothers . Widowed mothers were much more common in the early cohort , whereas never - mar ...
... early childbearing and idleness . All of the coefficients . are large and two are statistically significant . In sum , the bivariate equation models indicate that coming from a disrupted family reduces child well- being by a ...
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Why We Care about Single Parenthood | 1 |
How Father Absence Lowers Childrens | 19 |
Which Outcomes Are Most Affected | 39 |
Urheberrecht | |
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Growing Up with a Single Parent: What Hurts, What Helps Sara McLanahan,Gary D. Sandefur Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2009 |