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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... ( Table 2 ) ; it increases the probability of becoming a teen mother by 14 percentage points ( for the average young ... ( Table 2 ) . First , family disruption is clearly not the only cause of dropping out of school for children of any ...
... Table 4 ( top row ) reports median family income in 1992 dollars for three types of families : two - parent families ... Table 4. Even single - parent families appear to be doing well . This apparent anomaly is due to the fact that we ...
... Table 5 ) . The average white adolescent whose parents divorce experiences a decline in family income of about ... ( Table 5 ) than the income of all children in single - parent families at age sixteen ( Table 4 ) , suggesting that TABLE 5 ...
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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 |