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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... higher risk of school failure . Either of these characteristics - conflict or alcohol- ism — could , alone , account for the higher dropout rate of children in single - parent families or stepfamilies . Without a randomized ex- periment ...
... higher rates of idleness than young men . We suspect that this is due to continuing differences in cultural expectations for young men and women . Young women are nearly as likely to be in the labor force as young men , but the pressure ...
... higher than the dropout rate for the average black or Hispanic child from a two - parent family . The white - black com- parison in dropout rates is especially striking . White children from disrupted families have a much higher dropout ...
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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 |