School

School is a good example of how there are multiple responsibilities for children, including being at school and doing well in school. In my life, I always struggled with grades, but I knew that was due to my own laziness. Attendance on the other hand was something that I viewed as compulsory due to the way my parents taught me. While there was no correlation between the different households and the respective GPA of students in those families, attendance in school is a different story. As one study puts it, “[…] this means that the null hypothesis was rejected, with the conclusion that the number of times students were absent from school was related to the type of household in which they lived” (Ferrell 69).  The study showed that single-parent households had a lower attendance in school than two-parent households. Attendance is an important fact to consider because as opposed to GPA, where arguments of intelligence being a variable in the study can be made, attendance is a behavioral issue that can be affected by family dynamics and attitude. Thus the responsibility is on the parents to make their charges go to school regularly.

Ferrell, Ronald T. The Effects of Single-Parent Households Versus Two-Parent Households on Student Academic Success, Attendance, and Suspensions. Lindenwood University, 2009 United States -- MissouriProQuest. 15 Apr. 2013.