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...Consider the evidence: Two people living apart require 56 percent more money to sustain themselves than two living together, according to national guidelines on poverty. Children also benefit. Sociologists Sara McLanahan and Gary Sandefur found that one third of children with divorced parents who participated in their study dropped out of high school, while one tenth of children from intact families did so. One third of their sample’s girls whose parents divorced became teenage mothers—triple the amount of girls from intact families...
...This turns out to be true across the economic spectrum. The groundbreaking research on the effects of divorce on children from middle- and upper-income households comes from a surprising source: a Princeton sociologist and single mother named Sara McLanahan, who decided to study the fates of these children with the tacit assumption that once you control for income, being part of a single-parent household does not adversely affect kids. The results - which she published in the 1994 book Growing Up with a Single Parent: What Hurts, What Helps - were surprising. "Children who grow up in a household with...
...parents do less well in school and at college compared with underprivileged kids from two-parent households. "There's a 'sleeper effect' to divorce that we are just beginning to understand," says David Blankenhorn, president of the Institute for American Values. It is an effect that pioneering scholars like McLanahan and Judith Wallerstein have devoted their careers to studying, revealing truths that many of us may find uncomfortable. It's dismissive of the human experience, says Blankenhorn, to suggest that kids don't suffer, extraordinarily, from divorce: "Children have a primal need to know who they are, to love...
...statement. “At the time, all parties expressed full satisfaction with their agreement.”No formal request for an inquiry was ever lodged, and neither the university nor the department considered any disciplinary action, Allison wrote.Nonetheless, Bershady’s accusation prompted Sara McLanahan, a professor of sociology and public affairs at Princeton University, to defend Edin in a letter to the editor in the Daily Pennsylvanian, Penn’s student newspaper. McLanahan described the conceptual plagiarism charge as “absurd” and suggestive of a “fundamental misreading?...