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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... Marriage among Young Women What about early marriage not involving children ? Are young women from disrupted families more likely to marry in their teens than young women raised in two - parent families ? It is not clear that an early ...
... marriage without children , teen fatherhood within marriage , and teen fa- therhood outside marriage . From past research we know that men who do not marry the mothers of their children are reluctant to acknowledge their paternity , and ...
... marriage . In the 1950s , if a young unmarried woman found herself pregnant , the father of the child was expected to acknowledge his parenthood , and the couple were expected to get married . By the late 1980s expectations were very ...
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Why We Care about Single Parenthood | 1 |
How Father Absence Lowers Childrens | 19 |
Which Outcomes Are Most Affected | 39 |
Urheberrecht | |
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Growing Up with a Single Parent: What Hurts, What Helps Sara McLanahan,Gary D. Sandefur Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2009 |