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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... look at marital or nonmarital childbearing . The in- crease ranges from a low of 5 percentage points in the HSB data to a high of 17 percentage points in the PSID.9 The relationship between family structure and early childbearing is ...
... look very similar to black and Hispanic children in those categories in terms of their risk of teen motherhood , and they look substantially worse than black children in terms of their risk of high school failure . CONCLUSION Children ...
... look at high school graduation and college enrollment with these data . The HSB provides information on school performance prior to high school graduation , however , and we use this to supplement our analyses of school achievement ...
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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 |