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38 CHAPTER2 In the Australia study, sibship size and birth order had significant inverse associations with the students' mathematics and reading achievement. After taking into account family background differences, sibship size was not related significantly to boys' achievement nor to girls' reading performance, while birthorder position was not associated with girls' mathematics scores. However, half of the significant relationships involving the sibling variables did remain significant after taking into account family background, particularly those associations involving birth order.
They investigate the following questions: (a) Are children from mother-absent versus father-absent households educationally disadvantaged, net of those ethnic, SES, and community-context variables that are not caused by family structure? (b) Can any educational disadvantage of children in a mother-absent versus a father absent household be attributed to the children's maladaptive behavioral patterns? (c) Can the educational disadvantages to children in mother-absent versus father -absent households be attributed to the families' lower incomes resulting from marital dissolution?
Such investigations of neighborhoods reveal the potential complexity of the relationships between distal family background and outcomes. They suggest the need to investigate both social and cultural contexts when examining associations between family background and students' school performances. Relationships between family socioeconomic status, race/ethnic group background and students' outcomes are examined in the following section. Social and Cultural Contexts. The importance of examining both social and cultural contexts in analyses of students' outcomes is portrayed vividly in Mickelson's (1990) study of the attitude-achievement paradox for African American students.
