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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... similar known characteristics is yes . Notice that in the previous examples we did not compare chil- dren with similar family incomes . This is because we view low income , as partly the result , as well as partly the cause , of family ...
... similar levels of income , and therefore income cannot explain differences in child well - being between these two types of families . Looking at the figures for teen births , we see that income ac- ✓counts for over half of the ...
... similar bounds for the other two outcomes , using the NLSY , and for all the outcomes , using the PSID and HSB data . The results of these analyses are similar to those reported in the JASA paper . In this appendix , we present results ...
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Why We Care about Single Parenthood | 1 |
How Father Absence Lowers Childrens | 19 |
Which Outcomes Are Most Affected | 39 |
Urheberrecht | |
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Growing Up with a Single Parent: What Hurts, What Helps Sara McLanahan,Gary D. Sandefur Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2009 |