Sentences with phrase «parent black household»

Perhaps single parent black household attacks?

Not exact matches

The research about two parent households, blacks and whites, with the same educational background, age, and years of employment having similar household incomes was from research by Thomas Sowell in the late 80's — it was cited in one of his books (I think «Ethnic America») and he talks about that research in many of his lectures, some of which are on YouTube.

Mexicans and blacks are at the bottom of education levels and test scores, single parent households, crime and others.

Single fathers are much less likely to be black — 15 % are — as compared with single mothers (28 %), but more likely to be black than fathers in married two - parent households (7 %).

Radar (his name alone seems another pushy attempt to play cute) lives in a household in which his parents are striving for the Guinness record for owning the largest «Black Santa» collection.

The median household income for black families in 2001 was $ 33,600, while it was $ 54,100 for whites, a difference that can be attributed in part to the large number of black families headed by a single parent (see Figure 2).

Admittedly, the percentage of births to unmarried white and Hispanic (but not black) women did increase in the 21st century, but many women married subsequent to childbirth, so the overall percentage of children living in single - parent households did not continue to grow.

But for KIPPsters — mostly black and Hispanic kids growing up in low - income and often single - parent households — this is often something foreign.

It is a regression in which student achievement is explained by a combination of school inputs (resources such as funding per student, class size, teacher qualifications, etc.) and the characteristics of peers (percentage of schoolmates who are white and who are black, etc.), families (race, ethnicity, parents» education, number of siblings, etc.), and neighborhoods (the share of households who rent versus own, etc.).

Raising a Son in the Absence of His Father (For Single Mothers) According to current national data, upwards of 70 % of Black children are born into households where the only parent present is the mother.

These included characteristics on multiple levels of the child's biopsychosocial context: (1) child factors: race / ethnicity (white, black, Hispanic, and Asian / Pacific Islander / Alaska Native), age, gender, 9 - month Bayley Mental and Motor scores, birth weight (normal, moderately low, or very low), parent - rated child health (fair / poor vs good / very good / excellent), and hours per week in child care; (2) parent factors: maternal age, paternal age, SES (an ECLS - B — derived variable that includes maternal and paternal education, employment status, and income), maternal marital status (married, never married, separated / divorced / widowed), maternal general health (fair / poor versus good / very good / excellent), maternal depression (assessed by the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale at 9 months and the World Mental Health Composite International Diagnostic Interview at 2 years), prenatal use of tobacco and alcohol (any vs none), and violence against the mother; (3) household factors: single - parent household, number of siblings (0, 1, 2, or 3 +), language spoken at home (English vs non-English), neighborhood good for raising kids (excellent / very good, good, or fair / poor), household urbanicity (urban city, urban county, or rural), and modified Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment — Short Form (HOME - SF) score.

Infants were more likely to be rated as having poor self - regulation if they were from a lower - income household; single - parent household; were of black race / ethnicity; or if the mother had lower educational attainment, endorsed poor / fair health, or met criteria for depression at 9 months (data not shown).

The analyses also included age, race / ethnicity (three binary variables for Black, Hispanic and other ethnicity, coded with Whites as the reference group), gender, household income and parental education, media - viewing habits — hours watching television on a school day and how often the participant viewed movies together with his / her parents — and receptivity to alcohol marketing (based on whether or not the adolescent owned alcohol - branded merchandise at waves 2 — 4).31 Family predictors included perceived inhome availability of alcohol, subject - reported parental alcohol use (assessed at the 16 M survey and assumed to be invariant) and perceptions of authoritative parenting (α = 0.80).32 Other covariates included school performance, extracurricular participation, number of friends who used alcohol, weekly spending money, sensation seeking (4 - wave Cronbach's α range = 0.57 — 0.62) 33 and rebelliousness (0.71 — 0.76).34 All survey items are listed in table S1.

Longitudinal pathways to psychological adjustment among black youth living in single - parent households

Despite the enthusiasm of policy makers regarding three - generation households, the impact of multi-generational families on adolescent parents and their children varies (Black & Nitz, 1996; Chase - Lansdale, Brooks - Gunn, & Zamsky, 1994).