In an interesting journal article based on several studies done with one parent families, Paul Amato (2005) states that "Many of these deficits in parenting [less emotionally supportive, have fewer rules, inconsistent disciplining, less supervision and more conflict with children] presumably result from struggling to make ends meet with limited financial resources and trying to raise children without the help of the other biological parent" (Amato, 2005. ...

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Communication Studies Research Methods In recent years, as divorce rates have climbed and family structures continue to deviate further from the two-parent household, much has been made of absentee fathers and the impact that it has on children, particularly boys. Many studies have suggested that the absence of a father often causes boys to drop out of school and become delinquent. Research will show that boys raised outside of intact marriages are, on average, more than twice as likely as other boys to wind up in jail -- with each year spent without a dad increasing the odds of futur...

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