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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... whereas young women who experience the loss of a parent through death are much less likely to become teen mothers than young women who experience a divorce — 21 per- cent for the former as compared with 33 percent for the latter . In ...
... whereas in Figure 10 we examine them separately ; and in Figure 1 we included a small number of children who were not living with either parent at age sixteen , whereas here we include only children living with a single parent or a ...
... whereas only 20 percent of mothers living with a male partner gave this answer . If we compare these numbers with those in Table 7 we see that having a grandmother in the house does increase parental supervision , whereas having a male ...
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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 |