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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"two-parent households"”.
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Educationally At-risk College Students From Single-parent and Two-parent Households: an Analysis of Differences Employing Cooperative Institutional Research Program Data.
Using factors of low income, parents' levels of education, and family composition as determinants of educationally at-risk status, study investigated differences between first generation, undergraduate college students from families in lowest quintile of income in the U.S, One group consisted of …
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Risk factors and protective factors for depression in early maturing females
… peers as well as females growing up in a one-parent household, with the biological father absent, would experience more depressive symptoms than females who reached puberty later than their peers or were being raised in two-parent households. Statistical analyses revealed early maturing …
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Family risk factors related to adolescent adjudication
… guardian was, marital status of their biological parents and legal guardian, their relationship with their legal guardian, biological parents' criminal record and drug/alcohol addictions, households on welfare, and race. Two-parent households. preferably consisting of the biological parents, and …
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Factors affecting recidivism at a transitional shelter for the homeless
… affecting recidivism (shelter reentry) among two-parent households, female-headed households, and single women, through a study of selected households utilizing a transitional shelter for the homeless in Las Vegas, Nevada. The paper touches on the history of homelessness in America, and …
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Factors Influencing Career Choices of African Americans in Academia: A Study of Members of the Black Caucus of the Speech Communication Association
… benefits, or social interaction with peers; (2) two-parent households increase the likelihood of success in college thereby increasing the likelihood of African American students choosing college teaching as a career; (3) African American role models and mentors have a strong influence on African …
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Utilization of the Alabama Parenting Questionnaire across Family Structures: Do the Same Constructs Apply?
… to eschew a “one size fits all” approach to parenting assessment, as these measures may neglect or misconstrue parent-child dynamics unique to non-nuclear families. The current study examined the underlying factor structure of the Alabama Parenting Questionnaire (APQ) in two distinct family …
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Collateral Benefits Of A Brief, Couple-Focused Intervention On Coparenting: Indirect Effects Through Couple Relationship Quality And Conflict
In two-parent households, the interparental relationship is central to the wellbeing of family relationships and individual members. The current study examines whether participation in a brief, online, couple-focused relationship intervention has collateral benefits to coparenting (i.e., how two …
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Personal, Family, and Curriculum Variables Among High School Dropouts with Mild Disabilities
… attendance, gender, and ethnicity); family (parents' economic level, parents' educational level, and one vs. two-parent households) and curriculum (academic credits, vocational credits, support credits, and work experience credits) were examined. The research examined the relationship of …
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The Effect of Self-Concept on Math Achievement in Fourth Grade Students
… and math achievement on students from single parent homes and students from two-parent households and the differences between male and female students in the areas of self-concept and math achievement. Forty-eight fourth grade students from a suburban school district in Rochester, New York …
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Fatherless Households: Factors Contributing to the Academic Outcomes of High School Male Students
High school males from fatherless households are less likely to receive the needed support to succeed in school than their peers from two parent households (Astone and McLanahan, 1991). Research indicated that the biological father's influence will sway the male child's overall development (Jones, …
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Household allocation of labor time in two types of smallholder farming systems in rural Kenya
… on time allocated to work by agricultural households in rural Kenya. A total of 289 participants were selected from Njoro and Kikuyu divisions. Spot observations, personal observations, questionnaires, and focus groups methods were used to collect data. Ecological zones influenced the …
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The importance of household environments for early language development of Head Start children
… for young children who live in low income households and their families. Most children included in the sample were between three and five years of age. A series of single predictor and stepwise regression models were implemented which resulted in 112 statistical models developed to explore …
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Using Student Risk Factors to Predict Student-School Connectivity
… differences were observed when comparing two parent households and households without two parents. Results showed students living with someone other than their parents had significantly higher uses of marijuana, alcohol, and prescription drugs; additionally, students living outside their …
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Education for a Changing World: A Mixed-Methods Study of Cognitive Flexibility in Rwandan Primary Schools
… four public primary schools serving low-income households in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda. The quantitative component of the study comprised capturing data from a cross-section of 306 pupils randomly selected from age-in-grade learners in both Primary 1 and 4 classes. Each child was assessed …
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Social Policy and Family Well-Being: Essays in Applied Microeconomics
… no health benefits, suggests that unpaid parental leave policies may exacerbate disparities in child health as they only benefit the parents who can afford to use them. In the second essay, "Engaging Absent Fathers: Lessons from Paternity Establishment Programs," I examine behavior among …
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Who chooses? A sociological portrait of families active in school choice in urban areas in the U.S.
… will tend to have more educationally engaged parents than nonchooser families (Carnoy, 1993; Henig, 1995a). However, this hypothesis is rarely tested, in part due to data limitations in many school choice studies. Prior research has established the choosers tend to be more affluent than …