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A 5 page paper which examines information regarding children from divorced families and children from nuclear families. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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children from single parent homes are more likely to become engaged in crime and delinquent behavior, and to essentially have more problems than children from families that possess a mother
and father. The following paper examines 4 different articles as they present different aspects of this social concern, offering up statistics and other information. Divorced Families v Nuclear
Families In the first article to be examined the author presents the reader with something of a summary of the information available on this particular topic as it concerns children.
The author notes, "The best outcomes for children--whether in academic performance, avoidance of crime and drugs, or financial and economic success--are almost invariably produced by married biological parents" (Leo, 2005;
59). Leo (205) notes a policy brief from the Washington-based Institute for Marriage and Public Policy, wherein the findings noted that 19 out of 20 individual studies indicated that children
from single parent homes possessed a higher rate of delinquency and crime. "Ominously, one study said that the more single-parent families there were in a neighborhood, the more crime there
was among two-parent kids living around them" (Leo, 2005; 59). Other findings presented by Leo (2005) indicate that children from single parent households were almost two times as likely to
have been cited for pulling a gun or a knife on someone and children in gangs were more likely to come from single parent households. "Adolescents in married, two-biological-parent families
generally fare better than children in any of the family types examined here...The other family types studied were single mother, cohabiting stepfather, and married stepfather families" (Leo, 2005; 59). Interestingly
enough one particular study showed that divorce rates seemed to have nothing to do with the rate of violent crimes, but that children born out of marriage did have a
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