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Is a poor kid from a single parent household more likely to end up in prison or become a teen parent than a rich kid from a two-parent home? That was the main question in the article by Dalton Harris. Dalton Harris wrote an article in the Journal of Economic Issues in 1998 that discussed the commonly held belief that low income and single parent families lead to increased sexual activity and drug and alcohol abuse among the youth of America. This article talked about the tests that were done on an eighth grade cohort after establishing their family background characteristics, "their propensity for sexual activity and drug and alcohol use after four years upon their reaching the twelfth grade, was measured" (Garis, 1079). The rise in the amount of children living in poverty and living in one parent households have caused some people to believe that this living situation has caused the increase in sexual activities, and drug abuse among the youth. " There is a position held by......


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