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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... estimates based on models that adjust for predivorce differences in family resources and children's well - being . These models provide a more conservative estimate of the effect of family instability on children.14 This part of our ...
... Estimates from each of these equations are shown in Figure 11 . The first bar represents the difference in high school dropout rates between children whose parents broke up and children whose par- ents stayed together , controlling for ...
... estimates obtained from the single- equation models . Taken in conjunction with the nonparametric bounds , we conclude that the estimates based on the single - equation models can be viewed as good evidence that residing in a disrupted ...
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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 |