Sentences with phrase «single parenthood among»

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There were other hardships in there (another death in the family, another family member joining us in student housing, divorce, single - parenthood, and moving to a new country among them), but talking about those won't help anyone else with parenting issues.

The steep upward jump in single parenthood — from less than 30 percent to more than 50 percent among black Americans — took place in the late sixties and early seventies, immediately after the Moynihan Report was issued.

The discovery that concordance (similarity between siblings) for divorce among adults is higher among identical than fraternal twins suggests that genes may predispose some people to engage in behaviors that increase the risk of divorce.58 If parents» personality traits and other genetically transmitted predispositions are causes of single parenthood as well as childhood problems, then the apparent effects on children of growing up with a single parent are spurious.

Renewed interest among sociologists and demographers (Furstenberg and Cherlin, 1994) in the link between poverty and single parenthood soon emerged, and as noted above, that work increasingly began building toward the conclusion that family structure did matter (McLanahan and Sandefur, 1994).