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- Title
Marital Disruption, Parental Investment, and Children's Academic Achievement.
- Authors
Yongmin Sun; Yuanzhang Li
- Abstract
Although previous research has noted the detrimental impact of parents' marital disruption on children's schooling, less is known about whether such detriments arc observable prior to the disruption. Based on two waves of a nationally representative longitudinal data set, this study has found that even prior to family dissolution, both boys and girls from families that subsequently dissolve perform less well than their peers whose parents remain married. Families at the predisruption stage are aim characterized by a shortage of financial, cultural, human, and social capital, even after demographics are controlled. In addition, some parental investment measures yield a smaller educational return for students whose families subsequently dissolve than for those whose parents remain married. Our results also indicate that the negative postdisruption effects on children's academic achievement can be either largely or completely predicted by performance and investment differences at the predisruption stage.
- Subjects
ACADEMIC achievement; MARITAL conflict; CHILDREN of divorced parents; DIVORCED people; FAMILIES
- Publication
Journal of Family Issues, 2001, Vol 22, Issue 1, p27
- ISSN
0192-513X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/019251301022001002