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Title: The Effects of Parental Marital Status During Adolescence on High School Graduation
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1. Sandefur, Gary D.
McLanahan, Sara S.
Wojtkiewicz, Roger A.
The Effects of Parental Marital Status During Adolescence on High School Graduation
Social Forces 71,1 (September 1992): 103-121.
Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2579968
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Keyword(s): Divorce; Family Structure; High School Completion/Graduates; Marital Status; Marriage; Parental Influences; Sociability/Socialization/Social Interaction

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Data from the 1979-1985 waves of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (total N = 5246 respondents ages 14-17 when first interviewed) are used to investigate the effects of family type on high school graduation. Analysis reveals that: (1) not living with both parents at age 14 has negative consequences for graduation regardless of whether the child lives with a single parent a parent and stepparent or neither parent; (2) changes in family structure between ages 14 and 17 have negative consequences; and (3) the effects of family structure and changes in it on graduation persist after controlling for income and some social psychological attributes of the adolescents; income accounts for approximately 15% of the single-parent effect. References. (Copyright Sociological Abstracts Inc. All rights reserved.)
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Sandefur, Gary D., Sara S. McLanahan and Roger A. Wojtkiewicz. "The Effects of Parental Marital Status During Adolescence on High School Graduation." Social Forces 71,1 (September 1992): 103-121.