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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... family , and for the parents ' occupational status , the gap falls to 15 percentage points . Thus , the answer to the question of whether family structure affects children with similar known characteristics is yes . Notice that in the ...
... families are about 1.5 times as likely to be idle as young men from two - parent families , regardless of which survey we look at . To make sure that the association between family structure and idleness was not simply due to the fact ...
... family structure and , 17 , 62 ; women in , 21 , 135 , 140-141 , 153 ; single mothers in , 24 , 151 , 155 ; wage gap , 141-142 , 143 Manski , Charles , 170 Marriage , 3 , 4 , 54-55 ; rates , 142–143 , 145. See also Remarriage ; Stepfamilies ...
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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 |