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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... questions . They also arise because analysts disagree about the answer to the same question . With respect to the first point , there are at least three questions that might be asked about the consequences of single motherhood . One is ...
... question — would children with an absent parent have done better if their parents had stayed together - is the most dif- ficult to answer . And , not surprisingly , it is also the most contro- versial . To really answer the question ...
... question : Would children from divorced families have done better if their parents had stayed together ? In Chapters 5 through 7 we report estimates based on models that adjust for predivorce differences in family resources and ...
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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 |