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The book The Two-Parent Privilege shows that kids who grow up in two-parent households do better in terms of outcomes.
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SINGAPORE – I grew up in a single-parent household. My father died of lung cancer when I was seven.
My mother raised my sister and me by herself, even managing to take care of my paternal grandmother, who had dementia, until she died.
