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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... predivorce income ( second bar ) , which means that the difference in school completion is not due to differences in income prior to divorce . But when we adjust for both predivorce and postdivorce income ( third bar ) , the gap in high ...
... predivorce income Difference , controlling for predivorce and postdivorce income 8 % 8 % 7 % 7 % 7 % 6 % 4 % 4 % 3 % High school dropout risk Teen birth risk ( women ) Idleness risk ( men ) SOURCE : Panel Study of Income Dynamics . NOTE ...
... predivorce behavior very close to the time of the separation . This means that our predivorce measure may pick up some of the effect of the impending divorce , in which case it will be biased in a negative direction and will cause us to ...
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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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