What factors will determine how well a child does in a single-parent home?
What will be an ideal response?
Students' answers will vary, but Table 13.3 provides a quick overview. Some of the
more salient factors in determining how well a child does in a single-parent home
include the parent's maturity and age, his or her income, the stability of the situation,
and the parent's overall social situation. In and of itself, a single-parent household
does not have to be a negative situation for the child.
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Visual illusions demonstrate one problem with the method of empiricism
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
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a. gender stability. b. basic gender identity. c. gender consistency. d. gender intensification.
The meta-analysis of drug prevention programs funded by SAMSHA found that:
a. programs that were effective in demonstration projects were almost always effective in real-life settings. b. it is probably impossible to effectively implement prevention programs in real-life settings, regardless of how well they performed in demonstration projects. c. the effectiveness of programs in real-life settings is heavily dependent upon how well the program was implemented. d. it is too expensive to try to implement prevention programs in real-life settings.