Growing up in single parent families

The objectives of Gordan’s research were to examine the success rates and socio-economic characteristics of inner city children to evaluate the contributions of social, economic and schooling factors in relation to the inner city.

While existing research has focused on the differences in development outcomes between children in natural (living with both birth parents) vs. Parsons finds that differences do exist educationally and occupationally between female and males from different family types.

Dronkers also recommends that there is now ‘a new generation’ of lone parents and the effect of living in a lone parent family has become smaller from the 1960s and 1970s through to 2000, which is why further research on this topic is now essential. To do this we need to discover what factors of lone-parenting can harm our children and how can we lessen the effects of living in lone-parent families. At the same time there has been a change in the causes of lone parent families. Gordan then went back and analyzed the scores of children from lone-parent families, finding that the “strongest influence is the spatial distribution of l!

one-parent families and that rates of school absenteeism are an important intervening variables. However these are key factors to educational attainment no matter what the structure of the family happens to be. Gordan concludes that, it is in fact, “the migration of lone parents toward areas whose housing stock, services, employment opportunities and accessibility by public transport offer lone-parents a worthy advantage…however combine this with local circumstances (of the inner city), attitudes and practices risks are increased for these children. lated to this literature for an additional research paper examining lone parent families. Her concerns are with males raised in lone mother families, perhaps (it cannot be assumed) due to the unique role the father plays in a boys’ life. Specifically, why do most children in lone-parent families do well, while some falter; does geography and social inequalities predict educational and socioeconomic status of children from lone-parent families? By examining the important factors – such as family income, parental resources, community resources, and family characteristics, as they pertain to the geography of the inner city can we can address this issue with better understanding of needs of Canada’s children. ” Therefore, has little to do with the structure of the family itself.