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Money can’t fix a family
Tuesday, December 7th, 2010
Dec. 6, 2010
…the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study… followed 5,000 children and their urban, primarily minority, parents since the kids were born in the late 1990s… kids growing up with single mothers have more behaviour problems than those with two parents; those problems worsen with every “transition,” that is, every new relationship and breakup. There’s even evidence that instability affects children’s cognitive performance. Worst of all, children growing up with a boyfriend or stepdad in the house are at greater risk of abuse…
Tags: poverty, youth
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