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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"single-parent family"”.
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Day Care and the Single Parent Family: An Analysis of Single Parent Families' Interactions and Experiences
… result of the changing structure of the American family. Concerns over the experiences single parent families have with day care are growing as current resources for these families decline. In addition, there is little research to date about the differences between single fathers and single …
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The single parent family : a sociological study of the socio-economic problems facing single parents in Port Elizabeth
… the first known exploratory study on the single parent family in the Port Elizabeth region. In 1986, the Human Sciences Research Council completed a study of 300 White single parents drawn from lists of children from single parent families at 13 primary schools in the Pretoria School Board …
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Parental participation in homework completion as a predictor of academic success of students in the single parent family
… 13 million school age children are living in single parent homes. 40 percent of children B from single parent homes earn grades of D and F compared to 24 percent of children from two parent homes (Pines, 1982). This descriptive field study was designed to determine if different levels of …
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Once Upon a Time in a Single-Parent Family: Father and Daughter Relationships in Disney's The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast
… the United States, issues of what constituted a family circulated as divorce increased and fatherhood was debated. At this time, Disney released two animated films featuring a father and daughter: The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast. Both films are adaptations of fairy tales, and they …
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Effects of Living in a Single-Parent Family on Educational Attainment of Young Men and Women and on Earnings of Young Men (Achievement)
Whether long-term consequences of living in a single-parent family exist is a growing public concern. This study examines the effect of living in a single-parent family headed by a female on two long-run measures of achievement: educational attainment and earnings. The effect is examined within a …
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Leisure in Single and Dual Parent Families
… of the similarities and differences in family leisure participation between single parent and dual parent families. Surveys were distributed in three rural communities using three distribution methods. Surveys were distributed to 4th, 5 th and 6th grade classes and returned by mail. …
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The Effect of Stress on the Academic Achievement of Fifth Grade Students from Single-Parent Homes
… is to examine this important social change - the single-parent family and focus on its effect on the achievement of the child in the family in his role as a student. Dealing specifically with fifth-grade students, a description of their physical, social and emotional characteristics will be …
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RELATIONSHIPS AMONG DAILY STRESSORS, SOCIAL SUPPORT AND HEALTH OF SINGLE PARENTS IN TAIWAN
Previous studies show that single-parent families are generally more vulnerable and socially disadvantaged than two-parent families. Single parents often have a small social network size and lower level of receiving network support. Low social network support may be a risk factor for health …
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Competency-based therapy: a case study
… and applied them to therapy with a female-headed single-parent family with three young-adult daughters. The theory of competency-based therapy encompasses five major concepts which taken together distinguish it from other approaches to therapy. (1) Human behavior must be understood in its social …
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Housing for single-parent families
… poses the question of how we are to house the family of the future. The concept of the strictly nuclear family as a backbone of our civilization is disintegrating under the onslaught of careers, of divorce, of teen pregnancy, and of abusive home life. Though many of these trends are deplorable, …
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The financial feasibility of marriage for women receiving TANF: An analysis of six states
… and expenses of eight different low income family types in six states (Arizona, California, New York, Oklahoma, Virginia, and Wisconsin) this study illustrates the financial situation of various low income families. The family types under investigation include: a single parent family, a …
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Pathways to adulthood and their precursors: Roles of gender and race
… 2,185 men and 2,086 women. The college-educated single workers pathway, the college-educated married working parents pathway, and the high-school-educated single parents pathway were identified in both genders. For men, the study also identified the high-school-educated single workers pathway and …
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An exploration of psychosocial intervention services to families that have experienced divorce
… the psycho-socio wellbeing of all members of the family. This qualitative research study aimed to understand the nature and scope of psychosocial intervention services provided by social services professionals to families that have experienced a divorce. The population was social workers and …
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An analysis of the educational role of single parents
… study on "an analysis of the educational role of single parents" was aimed at: * investigating the role of single parenthood in education. * investigating the educational role of single parents in and out of school. * establishing problems encountered by single parents in performing their …
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How Do Family Structure, School Learning Climate and Parental Engagement Mediate the Impact of School Size On Academic Achievement? Evidence From Educational Longitudinal Study (ELS) 2002 Data
… school compositional variables, in particular, family structure, family learning engagement, and school learning climates. This examines how the impact of school size on academic achievement is explained by the nested factors. School size studies, in recent, have reported more positive effects …
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Contributions of Family Leisure to Family Functioning Among Single-Parent Families
… of this study was to examine the contribution of family leisure involvement to the family functioning of single-parent families among a large national representative sample. Two samples were gathered. The single-parent sample consisted of 384 families (384 parents and 384 youth). The dual-parent …