Growing Up with a Single Parent: What Hurts, What HelpsHarvard University Press, 01.07.2009 - 208 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. What are the chances that the child of a single parent will graduate from high school, go on to college, find and keep a job? Will she become a teenage mother? Will he be out of school and out of work? These are the questions the authors pursue across the spectrum of race, gender, and class. Children whose parents live apart, the authors find, are twice as likely to drop out of high school as those in two-parent families, one and a half times as likely to be idle in young adulthood, twice as likely to become single parents themselves. This study shows how divorce--particularly an attendant drop in income, parental involvement, and access to community resources--diminishes children's chances for well-being. The authors provide answers to other practical questions that many single parents may ask: Does the gender of the child or the custodial parent affect these outcomes? Does having a stepparent, a grandmother, or a nonmarital partner in the household help or hurt? Do children who stay in the same community after divorce fare better? Their data reveal that some of the advantages often associated with being white are really a function of family structure, and that some of the advantages associated with having educated parents evaporate when those parents separate. In a concluding chapter, McLanahan and Sandefur offer clear recommendations for rethinking our current policies. Single parents are here to stay, and their worsening situation is tearing at the fabric of our society. It is imperative, the authors show, that we shift more of the costs of raising children from mothers to fathers and from parents to society at large. Likewise, we must develop universal assistance programs that benefit low-income two-parent families as well as single mothers. Startling in its findings and trenchant in its analysis, Growing Up with a Single Parent will serve to inform both the personal decisions and governmental policies that affect our children's--and our nation's--future. |
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... parents are married when the child is born , and regardless of whether the resident parent remarries . Compared with teen- agers of similar background who grow up with both parents CHAPTER 1: WHY WE CARE ABOUT SINGLE PARENTHOOD.
... parents are married when the child is born , and regardless of whether the resident parent remarries . Compared with teen- agers of similar background who grow up with both parents CHAPTER 1: WHY WE CARE ABOUT SINGLE PARENTHOOD.
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... married parents , about 45 percent are expected to experience their parents ' divorce before reaching age eighteen.3 In other words , well over half of the children born in 1992 will spend all or some of their childhood apart from one ...
... married parents , about 45 percent are expected to experience their parents ' divorce before reaching age eighteen.3 In other words , well over half of the children born in 1992 will spend all or some of their childhood apart from one ...
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... marry — damages , and sometimes destroys , the social capital that might have been available to the child had the parents lived together . It does this , first and most importantly , by weakening the con- nection between the child and ...
... marry — damages , and sometimes destroys , the social capital that might have been available to the child had the parents lived together . It does this , first and most importantly , by weakening the con- nection between the child and ...
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... marriage , and early labor force attachment . While this set of out- comes does not cover all aspects of well - being , we believe it is a good indicator of a child's chances of economic success in adult- hood , defined as being able to ...
... marriage , and early labor force attachment . While this set of out- comes does not cover all aspects of well - being , we believe it is a good indicator of a child's chances of economic success in adult- hood , defined as being able to ...
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... married or not . We treat all families with two biological parents alike , even though we recognize that some par- ents are psychologically " absent " despite living in the same house- hold as their child , and that some separated or ...
... married or not . We treat all families with two biological parents alike , even though we recognize that some par- ents are psychologically " absent " despite living in the same house- hold as their child , and that some separated or ...
Inhalt
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HOW FATHER ABSENCE LOWERS CHILDRENS WELLBEING | 19 |
WHICH OUTCOMES ARE MOST AFFECTED | 39 |
WHAT HURTS AND WHAT HELPS | 64 |
THE VALUE OF MONEY | 79 |
THE ROLE OF PARENTING | 95 |
THE COMMUNITY CONNECTION | 116 |
WHAT SHOULD BE DONE | 134 |
APPENDIXES | 157 |
Notes | 174 |
Index | 191 |
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adjusted for race adolescence adults average becoming a teen behavior biological parents black children census tract Chapter chil child support child well-being children from two-parent children in single-parent children in stepfamilies children in two-parent children living children who live Cohort community resources difference in child disrupted families dropout rates early childbearing economic effect of family family disruption family income family structure grandmother high school dropout high school graduation Hispanic idleness Income Dynamics less marital marriage mother's education Moynihan Report National Longitudinal Survey NLSY nonmarital nonresident fathers NSFH number of siblings numbers are adjusted one-parent families Panel Study parent families parental resources percent percentage points place of residence poverty line predivorce PSID remarried reported residential mobility sample single motherhood single mothers single parent single parenthood single-mother families single-parent families social capital sophomore statistically significant stepfather Study of Income teen mothers two-parent families underclass welfare young women
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Seite 1 - Children who grow up in a household with only one biological parent are worse off, on average, than children who grow up in a household with both of their biological parents, regardless of the parents...
Seite 2 - Adolescents who have lived apart from one of their parents during some period of childhood are twice as likely to drop out of high school, twice as likely to have a child before age twenty, and one and a half times as likely to be 'idle...
Seite 157 - The data sets analyzed include the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY...
Seite 178 - Vital Statistics of the United States, 1990, Vol. 1, Natality, Washington, DC, Public Health Service, 1994.
Seite 83 - It is reassuring to find that the only logical answer to this question is the same as the answer to the other question: it is obviously a matter of timing — that is, of dramatic design.
Seite 28 - Having another parent around who cares about the child increases the likelihood that each parent will "do the right thing" even when otherwise inclined. In short, the two-parent family structure creates a system of checks and balances that both promotes parental responsibility and protects the child from parental neglect and, sometimes...
Seite 140 - A final measure of poverty dynamics shows that persistent poverty is more common in the United States than in other industrialized countries.
Seite 2 - ... are single motherhood and father absence therefore the root cause of child poverty, school failure, and juvenile delinquency? Our findings lead us to say no. While living with just one parent increases the risk of each of these negative outcomes, it is not the only, or even the major, cause of them.