Does Children's Academic Achievement Improve when Single Mothers Marry?
Does Children's Academic Achievement Improve when Single Mothers Marry?
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DOI：
10.1177/0038040710375686
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发表时间：
2010
影响因子：
3.9
通讯作者：
Clements M
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作者：
Wagmiller RL Jr;Gershoff E;Veliz P;Clements M
促进婚姻，特别是在有孩子的低收入单亲母亲中，越来越被视为改善弱势儿童发展成果的一项有前途的公共政策战略。然而，先前的研究表明，当单亲母亲结婚时，孩子的学业成绩要么没有提高，要么有所下降。在本文中，我们认为，先前的研究可能低估了母亲婚姻对单亲家庭儿童的好处，因为（1）婚姻的短期和长期发展后果没有得到充分区分，（2）婚姻可能赋予发展优势的儿童和家庭环境与那些不具有发展优势的儿童和家庭环境没有区别。利用 ECLS-K 的多波数据，我们发现单亲母亲的婚姻与其子女的学业成就轨迹略有改善有关，但在统计上显着。然而，只有来自条件较好的单亲家庭的孩子才能从母亲的婚姻中受益。
Promoting marriage, especially among low-income single mothers with children, is increasingly viewed as a promising public policy strategy for improving developmental outcomes for disadvantaged children. Previous research suggests, however, that children’s academic achievement either does not improve or declines when single mothers marry. In this paper, we argue that previous research may understate the benefits of mothers’ marriages to children from single-parent families because (1) the short-term and long-term developmental consequences of marriage are not adequately distinguished and (2) child and family contexts in which marriage is likely to confer developmental advantages are not differentiated from those that do not. Using multiple waves of data from the ECLS-K, we find that single mothers’ marriages are associated with modest but statistically significant improvements in their children’s academic achievement trajectories. However, only children from more advantaged single-parent families benefit from their mothers’ marriage.
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