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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... rate for the average white child from a disrupted family is 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 ...
... rates , by family structure and race . Two - parent families 26.5 % Single - parent families 13.6 % 8.7 % 8.2 % 5.3 ... rates ( 26.5 percent ) , and two - parent fami- lies have the lowest rates ( 5.3 percent ) . Stepfamilies are closer ...
... rates than black children who grow up with single mothers . Whatever disadvantages may arise from remarriage are more than made up for by the income advantage of these families . A striking finding ( evident in Figure 8 ) is the strong ...
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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 |