Sentences with phrase «intact family backgrounds»

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Ninety percent of them came from caring, intact families; 63 percent had gone to college, compared with the 5 to 6 percent background rate in the developing world, according to Sageman.

Moreover, research shows that even after one controls for a range of family background differences, children who grow up living in an intact household with both biological parents present seem to do better, on average, on a wide range of social indicators than do children who grow up in a single - parent household (McLanahan and Sandefur, 1994).