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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... idleness and inactivity are a sign of problems to come . Young adults who are not attached to the labor force or who work only intermittently may not develop the skills necessary for achieving economic security and social success later ...
... idleness than the other two surveys— about 25 percent of the young men in that sample were neither working nor in school . Our measures of idleness are somewhat different in each of the surveys , which is one reason the levels fluctuate ...
... idleness was not simply due to the fact that young men from one - parent families were more likely to have dropped ... idleness among boys . As in the case of high school graduation , we found that variation in test scores accounted for ...
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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 |