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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... percent of young black males between the ages of twenty and twenty - four were neither employed nor in school ; by 1980 the figure had risen to 27 percent , and by 1990 it was 28 percent . The trend for young white males was in the same ...
... percent of the young mothers in our samples eventually obtained a diploma , compared with over 90 percent of the young women who did not have a child by age twenty . If we count only high school diplomas , and exclude GEDs , we see that ...
... percent were for " other " reasons . We classified all moves that occurred in the same year as a divorce or ... percent of two - parent families that moved gave this as their reason for moving , as compared with 6 percent of single ...
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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 |