Does fathers' involvement in services affect mothers' likelihood of reunification with children placed in foster care?
| Autor: | Amy D'Andrade |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Sociology and Political Science
Family structure media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Service use Affect (psychology) Education Developmental psychology Foster care 050902 family studies Agency (sociology) Developmental and Educational Psychology 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences 0509 other social sciences Psychology Social psychology Welfare 050104 developmental & child psychology media_common |
| Zdroj: | Children and Youth Services Review. 81:5-9 |
| ISSN: | 0190-7409 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.childyouth.2017.07.018 |
| Popis: | Social science literature shows associations between fathers' involvement with their children and beneficial developmental outcomes of those children. A related but smaller body of research in the child welfare services arena has found measures of father involvement to be positively associated with beneficial child welfare outcomes, including child's reunification with parent after placement in foster care. However, the pathway by which father involvement affects reunification likelihood has not been determined. This study builds on the existing body of literature by testing a theoretical basis for the relationship between father involvement (measured as service use) and mothers' reunification in a model controlling for family structure. I find that fathers' involvement in services improves mothers' likelihood of reunification, independently of family structure. Results suggest that agency efforts to involve fathers in services make sense both when the aim is to prepare the father for possible custody, and when the aim is to reunify the mother. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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