It takes the average reader 3 hours and 43 minutes to read In Defense of Single-Parent Families by Nancy E. Dowd
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Dowd (law, U. of Florida) argues that the justifications for stigmatizing single-parent families are founded on myths used to rationalize harshly punitive social policies that hit children hardest. She says that many two-parent families in fact function as single-caregiving environments anyway, that the two kind of families have some unique and some common problems, that the failure or success of a family has little to do with its form, and that single-parent children often grow up with more admirable traits than their more conventional contemporaries. She looks hard at how the laws and other...
In Defense of Single-Parent Families by Nancy E. Dowd is 222 pages long, and a total of 55,944 words.
This makes it 75% the length of the average book. It also has 68% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 5 minutes to read In Defense of Single-Parent Families aloud.
In Defense of Single-Parent Families is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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