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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... mother- hood itself , there is little doubt that early childbearing reduces a young woman's chances of becoming an economically independent adult . Over two thirds of teen mothers are unmarried when their child is born , ' and the other ...
... young mothers in our samples eventually obtained a diploma , compared with over 90 percent of the young women who did not have a child by age twenty . If we count only high school diplomas , and exclude GEDs , we see that only 55 ...
... young white women have a lower prob- ability of becoming teen mothers than young black and Hispanic women , regardless of whether they live with two parents or one . The pattern for idleness is different from the patterns for high ...
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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 |