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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... stepfamilies were for consumption reasons , whereas 32 percent were for " other " reasons . We classified all moves that occurred in the same year as a divorce or remarriage as " other . " After consumption , the next most important ...
... stepfamilies . This is the first time we have identified a mechanism capable of explaining the disadvantage associated with stepfamilies . In the previous two chapters , we found that economic and parenting resources accounted for a ...
... stepfamilies , we find that adding parental re- sources to the model reduces the stepfamily effect on high school graduation by one more percentage point , from 3 to 2. This is exactly what we would have expected if parental resources ...
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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 |