Reference no: EM133567952

Case Study: The impact of the family structure in the military community raises the question of whether the

family structure has any implication as to whether a child will continue their education after high school by enrolling, attending, and receiving a four-year college degree. Frequent deployments and divorces have created many single-parent homes in the military community. This survey seeks to ascertain whether this shift in family structure has harmed college registration attendance and receiving a four-year college degree.

Purpose Statement

The purpose of this survey study is to test the theory that two-parent households have a positive

impact on the likelihood of a child attending college. It explores how the presence of two parents in a household correlates with higher rates of college registration and graduation among SOFA status members stationed on Okinawa, Japan. The study will control for age, gender, and socioeconomic status as potential influencing factors. The independent variable, household structure, will be defined as the arrangement of family members within a household, either having two parents or not (Cabrera et al., 2020). The dependent variable, college attendance and graduation rates, will be defined as the percentage of children from each household structure who successfully enroll in and complete college programs (Perna & Titus, 2005).

Question:

How does living in a two-parent household influence the probability of a military child pursuing higher education?