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Direct linkJacobs, Carmelita; Andrews, Grant – Education as Change, 2021
Parental educational support plays a significant role in the educational success of learners. Research has emphasised the important role of father involvement in educational achievement; however, little is known about how educational support is understood within marginalised contexts such as female-headed households, especially where fathers are…
Descriptors: Mothers, One Parent Family, Parent Child Relationship, Fathers
Peer reviewedHarris, Shanette M. – Race, Gender & Class, 2002
Critically reviews old and recent research on African American father absence, calling for a paradigmatic shift that emphasizes the value of investigating the effects of father absence as part of a transactional process. Views father absence as a stressor that can potentially give rise to additional stressors that can increase childhood risks for…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Blacks, Child Development, Fatherless Family
Download full textShaw, Lois B. – 1979
A sample of mothers and daughters from the National Longitudinal Surveys of Labor Market Experience is examined to find out whether living in a one parent family has any effect on the chances of a daughter's completing high school. The sample is limited to mothers and daughters living in the same household during the initial sample screening in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Blacks, Dropout Characteristics, Dropouts
Moore, Kristin A.; And Others – 1978
The primary purpose of the research presented in this paper is to develop a more complete model of educational attainment. Age at first birth is examined by multiple regression, along with other independent variables that have been found to affect educational attainment, including age at marriage. The second purpose of this paper is to address the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age, Birth, Black Mothers
Chorvinsky, Milton – 1981
This report presents data, obtained from the 50 states and Washington, D.C., on the October 1980 enrollments of 3- to 5-year-old children in nursery schools and kindergartens, excluding day care centers. The data were derived from special tabulations prepared for the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) from the October 1980 Current…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Blacks, Employed Women, Enrollment Rate
Spalter-Roth, Roberta M.; Hartmann, Heidi I. – 1991
This document presents a study that views working mothers as primary or co-equal earners, who need wages sufficient to support their families. The study hypothesized that the complex socioeconomic trends of the last two decades have had more of an impact on working mothers' wages than have their specific family relations. The study employed a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Dual Career Family, Employed Parents, Employed Women
