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Growing Up With a Single Parent - What Hurts, What Helps (Paperback, Revised)
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Growing Up With a Single Parent - What Hurts, What Helps (Paperback, Revised)
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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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