"Single Parents and Their Children" is a myth-busting, consciousness-raising collection of articles that defies all of the stereotypes that diminish and degrade single-parent families. Drawing from scientific research, Dr. Bella DePaulo shows that the dire predictions about the fate of the children of single parents are grossly exaggerated or just plain wrong. What's more, there are ways in which the children of single parents are doing better than everyone else. That's the good news no one ever tells you.
Professor DePaulo has been described by Atlantic magazine as "America's foremost thinker and writer on the single experience." This book includes more than a dozen of her most influential writings on single parents and their children, plus several guest contributions. Bella DePaulo's articles originally appeared in her popular "Living Single" blog at Psychology Today and her "Single at Heart" blog at PsychCentral, as well as in the Guardian.
Genre: FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / General"Single Parents and Their Children" is available in English as an e-book and a paperback. Both versions of the book have modest sales every month.
There are three essential truths about single-parent families: (1) They are part of the landscape of American life. For children, the experience of living in a single-parent family at some point in their lives is so commonplace, it is almost the norm. (2) Despite the huge number of single-parent families, they are still widely and unapologetically stigmatized and stereotyped. (3) All those dire predictions about single parents and their children are grossly exaggerated or just plain wrong. Scientific research has even documented ways in which the children of single parents do better than the children of married parents – you just haven't heard about those studies.
It is time to set the record straight.
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