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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... problems beyond their control.8 The controversy surrounding the Moynihan Report is instruc- tive insofar as it shows that concern for single mothers can easily be interpreted as condemnation of poor black mothers . Why would this be so ...
... problems these young men and women were experiencing are substantially different from the problems experienced by the average young adult in the 1980s . The fact that the children themselves attribute their difficulties to their parents ...
... problems facing single - parent fami- lies are not very different from the problems facing all parents . They are just more obvious and more pressing . While single mothers have the highest poverty rates of all families , many two ...
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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 |