Milne, Ann M., et al. "Single Parents, Working Mothers, and the Educational Achievement of School Children." Sociology of Education 59.3 (1986): 125-39. ProQuest. 12 Oct. 2013. The researchers did a research on the effects of mother's employment and living in a one-parent family on children's achievement. According to Herzong and Sudia they argued that there is no difference in school achievement between children from father-present homes and children from father-absent homes. But Shinn another researcher did a review of more recent research and found absence of a father can affect a children's intellectual performance. So according to all this another group decided to do a research and they used a national survey data on students from age 2 groups. They used 12,429 elementary school students and 2,720 high school sophomores and seniors. They realized that one parent family can have negative effects on school achievement but that these effects differ by age, race, and family structure. The results also show the importance of mediating variables like the income and time use.
Ferrell, Ronald T. The Effects of Single-Parent Households Versus Two-Parent Households on Student Academic Success, Attendance, and Suspensions10-15. (1995). Order No.AAI3354734 ProQuest. 12 Oct. 2013. This article shows us how the researchers did a survey on single parent’s children and both parents children. They realized that the both parent children’s did a lot better than the single parents children. The research used the quantitative research methodology which was used to analyze student data. The independent variable of this research study was the type of families that were involved which are the single parent and both parent. And the dependent variable was the academic success in school of students by academic success, attendance and suspensions.
Featherstone, Darin R., Bert P. Cundick, and Larry Cyril