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  2. Single-parent children and academics - Wikipedia

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    Children in single parent households are more likely to behave in disobedient activity, are less efficient in science and math, and are less likely that two parent households to graduate from high school, attend college etc.,. Children in special education classes are more likely to be from that of a one parent household as well as of ethnic ...

  3. Single parent - Wikipedia

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    A single parent is a person who has a child or children but does not have a spouse or live-in partner to assist in the upbringing or support of the child. Reasons for becoming a single parent include death, divorce, break-up, abandonment, becoming widowed, domestic violence, rape, childbirth by a single person or single-person adoption.

  4. Single-parent children and educational attainment - Wikipedia

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    Future socioeconomic opportunities are largely influenced by educational attainment. Examining the academic outcomes of single-parent children can give a better understanding of how family structure may affect long-term opportunities. Success in school frequently ripples down to succeeding generations. By finding intervention points to enhance ...

  5. From free-range parenting to tiger moms: Experts say today's ...

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    For more than 50 years since, dozens of different parenting styles have come in and out of vogue, including attachment parenting, tiger parenting and free-range parenting.

  6. Mindy Kaling on single parenting and why 'the biggest reward ...

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    As a solo parent of Katherine, 4, and Spencer, 1, Kaling tells Yahoo Life that she’s in awe of her kids’ demeanor. “The biggest reward is seeing how happy my children are,” Kaling explains.

  7. Parenting styles - Wikipedia

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    Father and children reading. According to a literature review by Christopher Spera (2005), Darling and Steinberg (1993) suggest that it is important to better understand the differences between parenting styles and parenting practices: "Parenting practices are defined as specific behaviors that parents use to socialize their children", while parenting style is "the emotional climate in which ...

  8. Single parents in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, 80% of single parents are mothers. Among this percentage of single mothers: 45% of single mothers are currently divorced or separated, 1.7% are widowed, 34% of single mothers never have been married. [13] This is in contrast to earlier decades, where having a child outside of marriage and/or being a single mother was not ...

  9. Parental care - Wikipedia

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    Parental care is a behavioural and evolutionary strategy adopted by some animals, involving a parental investment being made to the evolutionary fitness of offspring. Patterns of parental care are widespread and highly diverse across the animal kingdom. [1] There is great variation in different animal groups in terms of how parents care for ...