Sentences with phrase «mothers dropped out of high school»

Most of their mothers dropped out of high school; most of their fathers are nowhere to be seen.

Research indicates that 70 % of teen mothers drop out of high school, and only 30 % earn a high school diploma by age 30, compared with 76 % of women who delay childbearing until age 20 or 21.

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The children of teenage mothers are more likely to have lower school achievement and drop out of high school, have more health problems, be incarcerated at some time during adolescence, give birth as a teenager, and face unemployment as a young adult.

While father absence has been associated with a host of negative children's outcomes, including increased risk of dropping out of school and lower educational attainment, poorer physical and mental health, and behavioural problems,36 - 40 higher levels of involvement by nonresident fathers may assuage the negative effects of father absence on children's outcomes.41, 42 Quality of the parents» relationship before divorce, or of the pre-divorce father / child relationship, can also be an important factor: children fare worse following divorce when pre-divorce relationships were good and fare better when pre-divorce relationships were poor, 43,44 suggesting children are sometimes better off without a father if the father's relationship to the child or the mother was not good.

Among the old - for - grade students, the likelihood of dropping out and being convicted of a serious crime is 3.4 times greater for those born to an unwed mother and 2.7 times greater for those whose mothers were high school dropouts.

And I was desperate to leave home, a tiny claustrophobic apartment on the Upper West Side with my therapist mother and schizophrenic brother who had dropped out of high school two years before, took the subway at 5 a.m. to bird watch in Queens, and received command hallucinations from taxi cabs.

«I just want my daughter to have the best in life,» signs a deaf mother who dropped out of high school to help her grandmother.

The odds are higher that they will have lower - than - normal birth weights, lack access to regular medical care, live in a household headed by a single mother, become a victim of crime, have a parent who never finished high school, become pregnant before reaching adulthood, and drop out of school.

Looking toward continued improvement, Governor Markell drew attention to the troublingly high rate of unplanned pregnancy in Delaware (57 percent) and the implications that arise from mothers and fathers dropping out of school.

Alston and Savage encouraged Lawrence in his artistic studies, despite the fact that Lawrence had to drop out of high school in 1934, when his mother lost her job in the midst of the Great Depression.

One study found that in African American families (but not European American families), children who lived with stepfathers were less likely to drop out of high school or (among daughters) have a nonmarital birth.41 Similarly, a study of African Americans living in high - poverty neighborhoods found that girls living with their mothers and stepfathers were less likely than girls living with single mothers to become sexually active or pregnant.

Some research suggests that the academic deficits associated with living with a single mother are less pronounced for black than for white children.37 One study found that growing up in a single - parent family predicted lower socioeconomic attainment among white women, white men, and black women, but not among black men.38 McLanahan and Sandefur found that white offspring from single - parent families were more likely to drop out of high school than were African American offspring from single - parent families.39 African American children may thus adjust better than white children to life in single - parent families, although the explanation for this difference is not clear.

They have an increased risk of dropping out of school, and teen mothers are more likely to be single parents — a condition associated with higher rates of poverty.

In an examination of four nationally representative samples in the USA, McLanahan and Sandefur (1994) showed that adolescents raised by single mothers during some period of their childhood were twice as likely to drop out of high school, twice as likely to have a baby before the age of 20 and one and a half times more likely to be out of work in their late teens or early twenties than those from a similar background who grew up with two parents at home.

Among the six family types included in Teachman, Paasch and Carver (1997), «divorced mother» did not directly increase children's odds of dropping out of high school, holding other factors constant.»

While father absence has been associated with a host of negative children's outcomes, including increased risk of dropping out of school and lower educational attainment, poorer physical and mental health, and behavioural problems,36 - 40 higher levels of involvement by nonresident fathers may assuage the negative effects of father absence on children's outcomes.41, 42 Quality of the parents» relationship before divorce, or of the pre-divorce father / child relationship, can also be an important factor: children fare worse following divorce when pre-divorce relationships were good and fare better when pre-divorce relationships were poor, 43,44 suggesting children are sometimes better off without a father if the father's relationship to the child or the mother was not good.