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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... SINGLE MOTHERHOOD SO CONTROVERSIAL ? The controversies surrounding single motherhood are both politi- cal and scientific . To get an idea of the politics underlying the debate over single mothers , consider the Moynihan Report of nearly ...
... single mother " as a codeword for " black , welfare mother . " And they continue to view the debate over single motherhood as a debate over whether high poverty rates in the black community are due to lack of opportu- nity or to choices ...
... Single parenthood also increased in nearly all the countries between 1970 and the late 1980s . The United States has the highest prevalence of single - parent families , however , and it experienced the largest increase between 1970 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 |