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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... reduce their eco- nomic and community resources , making them worse off . Even in high - conflict situations , all ... reduces income , it also restricts single - parent families to communities where resources are low.38 Divorce and ...
... reduces his chances of graduating later on by about 7 percentage points . The percentages are somewhat higher in the ... reduce children's school achievement after high school . As we shall see at the end of the chapter , the effects of ...
... reduces the single - parent differential by only 1 percentage point , which means that some of the parenting effect is associated with differences in community resources and mobility . When we look at stepfamilies , we find that adding ...
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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 |