Low-income, nonresident father involvement with their toddlers: Variation by fathers' race and ethnicity
| Autor: | Natasha J. Cabrera, Stephanie J. Mitchell, Rebecca Ryan, Jacqueline D. Shannon, Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda |
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| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
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Ethnic group Mothers Article White People Developmental psychology Race (biology) Surveys and Questionnaires Ethnicity Humans Child Father-Child Relations Socioeconomic status General Psychology Single-Parent Family White (horse) Parenting Poverty Hispanic or Latino Early Head Start Social relation Black or African American Socioeconomic Factors Female Psychology Social psychology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Family Psychology. 22:643-647 |
| ISSN: | 1939-1293 0893-3200 |
| DOI: | 10.1037/0893-3200.22.3.643 |
| Popis: | Using data from a racially and ethnically diverse sample of low-income mothers of 2-year-old children participating in the Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project (N = 883), the authors examined fathers' education and employment, mother-father relationship, and mothers' relationships with kin in the household to explain variation in nonresident father involvement across racial and ethnic groups. Nonresident White fathers were less involved with their children than were African American and Latino fathers. This difference was explained by the status of mother-father relationships. White nonresident fathers were less likely than minority nonresident fathers to maintain romantic relationships with their child's mother. Mothers in the White father group were also more likely to re-partner, which negatively related to biological fathers' involvement. These findings suggest that approaches to strengthen nonresident father involvement in children's lives need to consider how father ethnicity and mother-father relations are associated with differential patterns of father involvement. |
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