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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... risk of failure , just as lack of exercise is only one among many factors that put people at risk for heart disease . Many people who don't exercise never suffer a heart attack , and many children raised by single mothers grow up to be ...
... risk of teen motherhood , and they look substantially worse than black children in terms of their risk of high school failure . CONCLUSION Children who grow up apart from a parent are disadvantaged in many ways relative to children who ...
... risk associated with living with a single parent at age sixteen , whereas the risk of idleness is even higher ( Figure 13 ) . The latter is surprising since we would have expected children with the most serious problems to have dropped ...
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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 |