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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... women is early childbearing . Young women who become mothers while still in their teens are less likely to graduate from high school on time and less likely to go on to 8 college than young women who delay childbearing . They Father Absence ...
... young women of not investing in school or work , it is hard to ignore the fact that these young mothers are going to have a harder time down the road than their peers who did not become mothers during their teens . Even when we exclude ...
... young women from one - parent families are more motivated to find a husband than young women from two- parent families . A potential problem with our results is that they fail to identify young women who are cohabiting , a status that ...
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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 |