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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... grandmothers ? Can they substitute for absent fa- thers ? Can they make life easier for single mothers ? At first glance , having a grandmother in the household seems like a good idea , since grandmothers are in a position to reinforce ...
... grandmother and to a diffusion of parental responsibility which , in turn , undermined the quality of parenting from both the mother and grandmother.35 In sum , while it is certainly not impossible for two adults other than a mother and ...
... grandmother living in the household . Only 4 percent of the chil- dren in the NSFH data were living with a single mother and a grandmother when they were age sixteen , and this percentage was about the same in all of the surveys . The ...
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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 |