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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...
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This book is about single parents, who make up an increasingly important and controversial group in Western society. The growth in the number of single-parent households is linked to debates about the 'decline of family values' and questions about state involvement in family life. Their economic and social deprivation relative to two-parent households is now a persistent theme of political and academic debates about social policy. Lone Parenthood sets out to explore the nature of the challenge that single parents present to social policy and conventional thinking about families. Contributions from a group of authors from a range of disciplinary backgrounds bring together important current re...
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This is a collection of common sense realizations attempting to point out the many facets in humanity that are actually part of God's one creation. The collection points out that to fully enjoy what God has made, we have to respect the boundaries He has given us in love for our benefit, and that the nature some people acknowledge is evidence of His loving care. We are all tiny parts of one magnificent creation, and as such, God hopes we will revel in the freedom He provides when we choose to follow Him and give Him all the devotion we can possibly muster. Music, art, science, sociology-all the terminology we can name has one source: God.
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