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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... fact that young men from one - parent families were more likely to have dropped out of high school , we restricted our sample to those who had completed high school . The difference in the risk of being idle between children in two ...
... fact that the mothers in our sample are older than the mothers in their study . It could also be due to the fact that Hill and O'Neill distinguish between single mothers on wel- fare and other single mothers , whereas we do not ...
... fact that many of the students in the HSB Study did not answer the questions about peer quality in their senior year , especially children from one - parent families . Some of this missing data was attributable to the fact that students ...
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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 |