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Title: Single Parenthood and School Readiness in White, Black, and Hispanic 6- and 7-year-olds
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Ricciuti, Henry N. |
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Single Parenthood and School Readiness in White, Black, and Hispanic 6- and 7-year-olds Journal of Family Psychology 13,3 (September 1999): 450-465. Also: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S089332000200140X Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA) Keyword(s): Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Child Care; Children, Academic Development; Educational Attainment; Ethnic Differences; Family Characteristics; Gender Differences; Hispanics; Mothers, Education; Parents, Single; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT); Poverty; Racial Differences; School Entry/Readiness The aim of this research was to examine the circumstances under which single parenthood may or may not represent an adverse influence on school readiness and achievement in 6-7-year-old children of White, Black, and Hispanic families in a large national survey (NLSY). Home visits provided measures of maternal and family characteristics and of children's vocabulary, math, reading, and behavior problems. Single parenthood was essentially unrelated to the child outcomes in all ethnic groups, and it did not interact with maternal education, ability level, or employment or with poverty status or child gender. Although single- and 2-parent families differed in income, they were very similar in maternal ability and education levels, thus suggesting that in the presence of positive maternal or family characteristics supportive of children's development, single parenthood as such need not represent a risk factor for these early child outcomes. ((c) 1999 APA/PsycINFO, all rights reserved) |
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Ricciuti, Henry N. "Single Parenthood and School Readiness in White, Black, and Hispanic 6- and 7-year-olds." Journal of Family Psychology 13,3 (September 1999): 450-465.
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