Dr. Alika's Theory Summary

In addition to this, Dr. Painter, an associate professor at the University of South California has a similar, yet different approach on what is the general disadvantage for children in single-parent households is. His theory is that there are two main factors when it comes to disadvantages for children in non-married families: income and parental involvement (Painter 1). He begins by addressing the main issue with past studies that had been taken for this specific area of interest; he explains that certain factors and conditions were assumed to be constant such as race and ethnicity, when in fact, that is a major point, Dr. Painter argues, as to why there are such differences to households. Painter begins by using a federal database of information that has been taken and recorded by schools all over the country and determines that parental involvement is greatly reduced in a single parent household because of financial restraints, there is minimal affect on …show more content…
Dr. Alika, the head department chairman of education at the University of Berlin, conducted a mass survey of students in Nigeria and conducted a statistical based approach on answering the question of whether or not the type of household you live in affects your education (1). Upon examination and plotting it on a causation x and y plot-axis, Dr. Alika was able to determine that there was “a significant negative correlation between education and single parent households”, meaning that there was significant evidence that showed that “children who lived in single parent homes did far worse in school than students who lived in married households” (6). Dr. Alika also examined the difference between genders in school and test scores and found that there was an abundant amount of evidence that showed that girls in single parent households performed much better in school than boys in single parent