dc.contributor.author	Watson, Jessica Renee
dc.coverage.spatial	Georgia	en_US
dc.coverage.temporal	2019-2021	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2021-06-14T20:00:28Z
dc.date.available	2021-06-14T20:00:28Z
dc.date.issued	2021-05
dc.identifier.other	39984BD9-0403-75A5-46A3-BFC841943825	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10428/4792
dc.description.abstract	Across the United States each year, schools implement national and state reforms dedicated to improving district personnel, district budgets, and district instructional resources for the improvement of student achievement and career readiness. In the last twenty years, Georgia schools failed to significantly improve student graduation performance, this is particularly true for students living in rural, single-parent households (County Health Rankings, 2019; Dalton, 2019 GADOE, 2019; KCDC, 2019. The purpose of this study was to investigate the experiences of students who graduated from high school, came from single parent homes, and lived in an identified rural Georgia Title I school district. I incorporated an embedded, exploratory case study with a multiple-case design and investigated the social and academic experiences of six participants (Yin, 2018). Participants were identified from two rural, Title I school districts in central Georgia through the use of both snowball and purposive sampling procedures (Guetterman, 2015). After analyzing participant data, I concluded high school graduates who lived in single-parent households and attended rural Title I school districts established a secure attachment to overcome or eliminate associated risks. When the consequences were minimized or eliminated in a student’s home microsystem, the effects were noticeable in their school microsystem.	en_US
dc.description.tableofcontents	CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION 1 -- Overview 1 -- Problem Statement 3 -- Purpose Statement 6 -- Research Questions 6 -- Significance of Study 7 -- Conceptual Framework 8 -- Summary of Methodology 12 -- Limitations 13 -- Chapter Summary 14 -- Definition of Terms 14 -- CHAPTER II: LITERATURE REVIEW 17 -- Introduction 17 -- Description and Critique of Literature 18 -- Risks 18 -- Statistics About Single-Parent Homes 18 -- Structure of Single-Parent Homes 19 -- How Children Are Separated from Parents 21 -- Differing Roles Between Single Fathers and Single Mothers 25 -- Challenges Facing Children from Single-Parent Homes 27 -- Socioeconomic Status 32 -- Stressors 36 -- Strategies 42 -- Secure Attachment 42 -- Positive Supportive Relationships 47 -- Conceptual Framework 50 -- Chapter Summary 52 -- CHAPTER III: METHODOLOGY 54 -- Introduction 54 -- Research Questions 55 -- Rationale 56 -- Research Design 57 -- Setting 58 -- Population and Sample 58 -- Data Collection and Methods 60 -- Documentation 60 -- Interviews 61 -- Interview Protocol 61 -- Non-Participant Observation 62 -- Data Analysis Procedures 63 -- Data Analysis Strategies and Techniques 63 -- Validity 65 -- Ethical Issues 65 -- Chapter Summary 67 -- CHAPTER IV: PARTICIPANT PROFILES 68 -- Introduction 68 -- Participant Profiles 69 -- Macon 77 -- Alexandria 84 -- Jackson 95 -- Charlotte 105 -- York 117 -- CHAPTER V: FINDINGS 128 -- Introduction 128 -- Data Analysis 129 -- Perceived Barriers 133 -- Attachment Styles in Early Adolescence 141 -- Long-Term Strategies 149 -- Breaking the Cycle 160 -- Chapter Summary 164 -- CHAPTER VI: CONCLUSION 165 -- Research Questions: Summary Discussion 167 -- Study Limitations 179 -- Implications 182 -- Recommendations 184 -- Recommendations for Future Studies 185 -- Conclusion 186 -- APPENDIX A: DOCUMENT OBSERVATION MATRIX 205 -- APPENDIX B: INTERVIEW PROTOCOL 207 -- APPENDIX C: IRB APPROVAL FORM 211	en_US
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dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.rights	This dissertation is protected by the Copyright Laws of the United States (Public Law 94-553, revised in 1976). Consistent with fair use as defined in the Copyright Laws, brief quotations from this material are allowed with proper acknowledgement. Use of the materials for financial gain with the author's expressed written permissions is not allowed.	en_US
dc.subject	Academic achievement	en_US
dc.subject	Children of single parents--Education	en_US
dc.subject	Dissertations, Academic--United States	en_US
dc.subject	High school graduates	en_US
dc.subject	Single-parent families	en_US
dc.title	A Narrative of Successful Graduates Raised in Single-Parent Homes	en_US
dc.type	Dissertation	en_US
dc.contributor.department	Department of Leadership, Technology and Workforce Development of the Dewar College of Education and Human Services	en_US
dc.description.advisor	Truby, William F.
dc.description.committee	Lairsey, John D.
dc.description.committee	Bochenko, Michael J.
dc.description.degree	Ed.D.	en_US
dc.description.major	Education in Leadership	en_US