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Single Parent Homes
The Hilltop Review
Volume 5
Issue 1 Fall 2011

Article 4

2-24-2012

Academic Achievement of Children in Single
Parent Homes: A Critical Review
Mark S. Barajas
Western Michigan University, mark.s.barajas@wmich.edu

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Although some studies have been inconclusive, a large majority of studies reviewed show that children from single-parent (SP) homes score lower on tests of cognitive functioning and standardized tests, receive lower GPAs, and complete fewer years of school when compared to children from two
-parent (TP) homes (Bain, Boersma, & Chapman 1983; Balcom 1998; Biller 1970; Chapman,
1977; Daniels, 1986; Downey, Ainsworth-Darnell, & Durfur, 1998; Fry & Scher, 1984; Mandara & Murray 2006; Milne, Rosenthal, & Ginsburg, 1986; Sigle-Rushton & McLanahan
2004). Even when controlling for economic and racial differences of the family, children from two-parent households outperform children from one-parent households across a variety of measures (Downey, 1994; Kim, 2004; Krein & Beller, 1988; Mulkey, Crain, & Harrington,
1992; Teachman, 1987). McLanahan and Sandefur (1994) summarize the research by writing:
Children who grow up in a household with only one biological parent are worse off, on average, than children who grow up in
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