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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... reported in Chapters 3 through 7 are based on models that adjust for family background differences , including race , mother's education , father's education , number of siblings , and place of residence . Thus , we can be confident ...
... reported by young men , should be viewed with a bit of skepticism . Early family formation is much less common among men than among women . Whereas about 20 percent of the women in our samples gave birth in their teens , and another 10 ...
... reported in that paper suggest that the estimates obtained from single - equation probit models , like the ones used in this book , fall within the nonparametric bounds . We have con- structed similar bounds for the other two outcomes ...
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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 |