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  2. Single-parent children and educational attainment - Wikipedia

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    Another link between students with low educational attainment later becoming single parents has also been explored, [1] with high achievers being almost two-thirds less likely to become a single parent. Children lacking a mother figure are at greater risk academically than those lacking a father figure. [6]

  3. Social class in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The median wealth of married couples exceeds that of single individuals, regardless of gender and across all age categories. [11]It is impossible to understand people's behavior…without the concept of social stratification, because class position has a pervasive influence on almost everything…the clothes we wear…the television shows we watch…the colors we paint our homes in and the ...

  4. Single parents in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Single parents in the United States have become more common since the second half of the 20th century. In the United States, since the 1960s, there has been an increase in the number of children living with a single parent. The jump was caused by an increase in births to unmarried women and by the increasing prevalence of divorces among couples.

  5. Millennials in the United States - Wikipedia

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    But the evidence did not support this. By the 2020s, the oldest Millennial women were already exiting their childbearing years without having more children. [142] Between 1990 and 2015, the number of married couples aged 18 to 34 with children dropped from 37% to 25%. [264] One reason is the rising cost of raising a child. In the United States ...

  6. Social privilege - Wikipedia

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    Social privilege is an advantage or entitlement that benefits individuals belonging to certain groups, often to the detriment of others. Privileged groups can be advantaged based on social class, wealth, education, caste, age, height, skin color, physical fitness, nationality, geographic location, cultural differences, ethnic or racial category, gender, gender identity, neurodiversity ...

  7. Work–family balance in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Single mothers are more likely to face challenges, with anywhere from 40.6% to 47.1% of single mothers being at or below 150% of the poverty line. [44] According to Kathryn Edin, this is because of the lack of incentive to marry other lower-class men among lower-class women, and the desire to save marriage for more quality prospects. [ 24 ]

  8. Adolescent clique - Wikipedia

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    Most people agree that children are affected by who they associate with, but what is not well understood is the specific characteristics that children of similar types of groups share. The focus of these authors' research [11] was to discover the different emotional and social effects that members of the same cliques share. For their study they ...

  9. Sensory processing sensitivity - Wikipedia

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    Attributes, characteristics and prevalence [ edit ] Boterberg et al. (2016) describe high SPS as a "temperamental or personality trait which is present in some individuals and reflects an increased sensitivity of the central nervous system and a deeper cognitive processing of physical, social and emotional stimuli."