Growing Up With a Single Parent: What Hurts, What HelpsHarvard University Press, 20.10.1994 - 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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... high school and go on to college — especially those who graduate from ... graduation rates came to an abrupt halt at the end of the 1970s.1 Second ... high school diploma in terms of future earnings , the increase in GEDs suggests that ...
... high school graduation and continuing through college entry and college graduation . Different transitions have dif- ferent implications for long - term economic security . Dropping out of high school , for example , is an event with ...
... high school graduation , making no assumptions about the joint determination of family structure and high school graduation . The results reported in that paper suggest that the estimates obtained from single - equation probit models ...
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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 |