Single-Parent Households and Educational Achievment

Nearly half of all marriages in the United States ends in divorce. A consequence of this fact is that children are left living in a home with a single custodial parent. Prior research suggests that coming from a single-parent family effects a child’s academic achievement. The studies reviewed utilized quantitative empirical data in order to study the effects of a variety of factors on children’s academic success within a single-parent family. This review comes to the ultimate conclusion that of all the myriad factors that could influence a child’s academic success within the lens of a single-parent family, socio-economic status is far and above the most significant