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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... higher risk of school failure . Either of these characteristics - conflict or alcohol- ism - could , alone , account for the higher dropout rate of children in single - parent families or stepfamilies . Without a randomized ex- periment ...
... higher poverty rates than white children in single - parent families . Hence , if there were no single - parent families , black children would still have much higher poverty rates than white children . This is partly because their par ...
... higher lev- els of depression and psychological distress . Indeed , the emotional costs of divorce appear to be higher for men than for women . The fact that divorced fathers report higher levels of depression and psychological problems ...
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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 |