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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... indicator of a child's chances of economic success in adult- hood , defined as being able to support oneself at a ... indicators of social success . Since many of the outcomes we focus on in this book are rela- tively rare among children ...
... indicator because it is more sensitive to differences among children from disrupted families and because it may be a more reliable indicator of school success than the combination of diploma and GED . Children born to an unmarried ...
... indicators of community quality : per- cent of families living below the poverty line , percent of families headed by ... indicator incorporates many of the other measures of community quality , but it is a much more extreme measure of ...
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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 |