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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... percentage point difference in dropout rates for girls in one- and two - parent families , whereas it shows only a ... points ( Table 2 ) ; it increases the probability of becoming a teen mother by 14 percentage points ( for the average ...
... percentage points . After adjusting for income , the difference is only 3 percentage points . In contrast , income accounts for virtually none of the dif- ference in dropout rates between children in stepfamilies and two- parent ...
... points more likely to become teen mothers than girls whose parents remained together . Similarly , boys whose families broke up were 6 percentage points more likely to be idle at age twenty than boys who did not experience a divorce ...
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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 |