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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... increase in GEDs suggests that education levels actually declined during the 1980s.2 Most importantly , the cost of not finishing high school has also increased , which means that young people with inadequate educa- tions are worse off ...
What Hurts, What Helps Sara McLanahan, Gary D. Sandefur. disruption increases the chances of school failure by a factor of ... increase in risk is greatest among whites , followed by Hispanics and then blacks , as was true for high school ...
... increased fourfold . Single parenthood also increased in nearly all the countries between 1970 and the late 1980s . The United States has the highest prevalence of single - parent families , however , and it experienced the largest increase ...
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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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