Is there a significant difference in child-raising practices between married couples and single mothers?

Type :

Term papers

Pages :

8 pages

Format :

.doc

Published date :

03/18/2009

Category :

Social studies

Sub category :

Sociology

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Summary :

Introduction
Literature review
Theoretical framework
Research design
1. Methodology
2. Data collection
3. Data analysis
4. Ethical issues
Limitations
Conclusion
Bibliogrpahy

Abstract

In 1990, American academic Charles Murray came to England, at the invitation of The Sunday Times, to observe and discover whether the underclass phenomenon he had identified in the United States had spread to the UK. His findings were first published in The Sunday Times Magazine on 26 November 1989, and later, under the auspices of the right-wing think tank, the Institute for Economic Affairs (lEA), as The Emerging British Underclass. Murray found that: "Britain does have an underclass, still largely out of sight and still smaller than the one in the United States. But it is growing rapidly." (Murray, 1990: 3).

In Murray's analysis, the underclass is characterised by the incidence of illegitimate births, high crime rates (particularly violent crime) and drop-out from the labour market. In a much-cited quote from Murray: "If illegitimate births are the leading indicator of an underclass and violent crime a proxy measure of its development, the definitive proof that an underclass has arrived is that large numbers of young, healthy, low-income males choose not to take jobs." (1990: 17).