achieve these goals is vital for society: parental care plays a crucial role in child development and parental employment …Raising children and having a career both rate highly as important life goals for many people. Helping parents to …

children live with a never-married mother. Children of never-married mothers are more likely to drop out of high school, repeat … grades, and have behavioral problems than are children raised in more traditional family structures. But these relationships … may be driven by other factors that affect marital status at birth, post-conception marriage decisions, and later child …