Inside Higher Ed – Kaitlin Mulhere
“Spending your teenage years in a single-parent family puts you at a larger educational disadvantage today than it did 40 years ago, claims a new study. In 2009, young adults who spent time living in single-parent families had completed 1.32 fewer years of schooling than their peers from two-parent families, according to a paper published last week…The college completion rate also was 26 percentage points lower for 24-year-olds who lived in single parent homes as teens. Both gaps have more than doubled since 1978, when there was a 0.63-year difference in schooling completed and a 12 percentage point difference in college completion rates.”(more)