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Peer reviewedSandefur, Gary D.; And Others – Social Forces, 1992
Examines the effects of family type on high school graduation using data from the 1979-85 waves of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Results show that (1) not living with both parents at age 14 has negative consequences for children's high school graduation, and (2) disruptions (changes in family structure) between ages 14 and 17 also…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Family Income, Family Structure, Graduation
Peer reviewedTolnay, Stewart E. – Social Forces, 1997
The longstanding assumption that migration of southern blacks to northern cities negatively affected black family structure in the North was examined by comparing the living arrangements of women and children for migrants and nonmigrants in northern cities, 1940-90. Results show that northern urbanites with "southern origins" actually…
Descriptors: Births to Single Women, Black Community, Black Family, Black Population Trends
