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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... reason chil- dren's standard of living declines after a divorce or separation . Equally important is the fact that total family income is not distributed equally when parents live apart . A mother and children usually receive less than ...
... reason ? The answers to these questions tell us something about the conditions under which a move occurred . Presumably a move for either productive or con- sumption reasons is preferable to a move for involuntary reasons . We found ...
... reasons , whereas 32 percent were for " other " reasons . We classified all moves that occurred in the same year as a ... reason for moving , as compared with 6 percent of single - parent families and 14 percent of stepfamilies . As for ...
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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 |