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Originally Posted by rubecube
Do we actually know that children raised in single families have worse social and economic outcomes than those raised in a two-parent household where constant conflict or abuse occurs? Seems like that'd be pretty difficult thing to gather data on.
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If there is, I haven't come across it.
How Marriage and Divorce Impact Economic Opportunity
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...Similarly, social mobility rates between generations are higher among children who live with their continuously married parents than among those who experience either a family divorce or a long period of single parenthood. A child born to a never-married mother in the bottom fifth of family income is 3 times more likely to stay in the bottom fifth than a child born to a continuously married mother with equally low income. Once again, not all of this is the pure effect of family structure but even after adjusting for many of the other differences between married and unmarried parents, a significant impact remains...
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The inequality we don’t talk about
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..In a widely cited report published last spring, MIT economists David Autor and Melanie Wasserman drew a direct link between the rising tide of fatherlessness and the growing failure of boys in school and the labour market.
"Males born into low-income single-parent headed households – which, in the vast majority of cases are female-headed households – appear to fare particularly poorly on numerous social and educational outcomes," they wrote. It's not just that the girls are outperforming them. It's that the boys are doing worse.
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