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Marital Transitions, Parenting, and Schooling: Exploring the Link Between Family-Structure History and Adolescents'
Shannon E Cavanagh1, Kathryn S Schiller, Catherine Riegle-Crumb
1University of Texas at Austin.
Abstract:
The linkage between family structure and adolescents' academic experiences is part of a larger, dynamic process unfolding over time. To investigate this phenomenon, this study drew on the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health and the Adolescent Health and Academic Achievement Study. Logistic regressions revealed that family structure at birth predicted students' academic status in math in the ninth grade, and multinomial regressions revealed that family instability, along with curricular location in the ninth grade, parenting behaviors, and adolescents' adjustment and aspirations, distinguished those who completed higher-level math by the end of high school from those who did not but still graduated from high school and from those who dropped out of high school.
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