Child Success Depends on Family Stability
Tuesday, October 6th, 2009The advantage that children get from living in two-parent families may actually be due to family stability more than the fact that their parents are married.A new study finds that children who who are born and grow up in stable single-parent homes generally do as well as those in married households in terms of academic abilities and behavior problems.
The study appears as a chapter in the new book “Marriage and Family: Perspectives and Complexities” (Columbia University Press), which Kamp Dush edited with H. Elizabeth Peters, professor of policy analysis and management and director of the population program at Cornell University.
