Download or read book The Complexity of Nonresident Father Involvement in Low income Families written by Yoshie Sano and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two studies of this dissertation examined mothers' perspectives of nonresident fathers' involvement in low-income families. The overall goal of these studies was to gain a more comprehensive understanding of nonresident fathers' involvement and its effect on family well-being. In the first study I applied a relatively new methodology, zero-inflated negative binomial regression, to overcome the methodological shortcomings of previous studies. The models (N=1215) examined what factors predicted two aspects, presence and level, of father-child contact and paternal engagement. Different factors were found to influence presence of father-child contact and frequency of contact. Similarly, different factors predicted presence of paternal engagement and level of engagement. Thus, a nonresident father's decision to be involved in his child's life may be a fundamentally different decision than how much he is involved. In addition, parents' positive relationship--romantic relationship and higher quality of relationship--was found to be the major predictor influencing all outcome variables. It appears that a positive co-parental relationship is central to nonresident father involvement. In my second study, I qualitatively examined rural mothers' perceptions of nonresident fathers' involvement (N=83). Specifically, I investigated whether mothers are really "gatekeeping" the father involvement, as suggested by previous research. There was no simple yes/no answer to this question, rather, results suggested that whether a mother acts as a gatekeeper of her children depends on her unique circumstances. Mothers, by at large, wanted the nonresident fathers to be involved in their children's lives and to perform responsible fathering, but mothers' expectations of the fathers' roles may be narrowly defined and, therefore, easily violated. Some mothers did intentionally refuse or limit father-child contact in cases where they believed that father involvement would threaten the safety of their children. In these cases, "gatekeeping" behavior can be viewed as one survival strategy for the mothers. The two studies presented here collectively demonstrate the complexity of non-resident father's involvement and provide insight that will be useful for policy targeted to low-income families.
Download or read book Nonresident Father Involvement written by Lee Mizell and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This dissertation explores issues associated with the use of mothers' proxy reports of nonresident fathers' characteristics and behaviors in analysis of child well-being. Specifically, it addresses the following research questions: (1) Are there discrepancies between mothers' and nonresident fathers' reports of nonresident fathers' characteristics and behaviors? (2) Do these discrepancies occur systematically in a manner that potentially underrepresents nonresident fathers' involvement with and on behalf of their children? (3) Do reporting discrepancies cause parameters estimates to vary depending on whose reports are used? (4) Does information about these discrepancies help us understand variation in child well-being? and (5) What are the implications for future research and policymaking? In answering these questions this dissertation makes three contributions to the body of existing research on nonresident fathers and families and to policymaking and practice. It first reveals how using paired data for traditionally difficult-to-survey families may be biased in the absence of a nonresponse correction. It then identifies if and/or which parameter estimates in existing research that use mothers as proxy reporters for nonresident fathers might be biased. Finally, because social policies and programs frequently target difficult-to-reach populations, it illuminates the question of whether or not it is worthwhile to allocate additional resources to collect data from them. Findings suggest that there are real differences in the way mothers and fathers report nonresident father characteristics and behavior, and that these discrepancies affect estimates of the relationship between nonresident father involvement and child well-being. Discrepancies may be due to instrumentation, latent variables, a true lack of knowledge on the part of the mother, and differences in mothers' and fathers' experiences with and perceptions of parenting, as well as social pressures and child effects."--Rand abstracts.
Download or read book Nonresident Father Involvement Do Mothers and Fathers See Eye to Eye An Investigation of the Impact of Reporting Discrepancies written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research examines the implications of using mother-reported data to evaluate the relationship between nonresident fathers a
Download or read book More about the Dads written by Karin Malm and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study follows up on a prior study of child welfare agencies' efforts to identify, locate, and involve nonresident fathers of children in foster care. These analyses use information from the original survey and administrative data on case outcomes to explore three research questions: (1) Is nonresident father involvement associated with case length? (2) Is nonresident father involvement associated with foster care discharge outcomes? and (3) Is nonresident father involvement associated with subsequent child maltreatment allegations? The study finds that having an involved father is associated with shorter case length and a greater likelihood of reunification. Findings also indicate that, contrary to some caseworkers' fears, nonresident fathers' contact with the child welfare agency and involvement with their children is not associated with subsequent maltreatment allegations. The results, though exploratory, suggest that engaging the nonresident fathers of children in foster care could potentially improve outcomes for the children. Further research is needed to better understand the association between nonresident fathers' involvement and a greater likelihood of reunification. (Contains 2 tables, 7 figures, and 34 footnotes.) [This report was prepared by the Urban Institute under contract to the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.].
Download or read book Nonresident Father Involvement written by Jennifer Karre and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nonresident Father Involvement and Child Well being written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children in America are increasingly growing up in households without the presence of their biological fathers. Data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Survey-Birth cohort (ECLS-B) is used to examine the levels and quality of nonresident father involvement and its relationship with child well-being. Children from this first wave of the survey include infants between 8-12-months-old, and outcome measures include cognitive and motor performance using a revised form of the Bayley Scales of Infant Development. The analysis of this data does not support the hypothesis that higher quality father involvement is associated with increased child well-being. Nonresident fathers may not have a differential impact on infants at this early stage in life, or differences may not be adequately captured using existing tools for this age group. Follow-up surveys may reveal an association between quality of father involvement and child cognitive and motor development.
Download or read book Nonresident Father Involvement in the Lives of Their Children written by Sandra Amaya and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Conceptualizing and Measuring Father Involvement written by Randal D. Day and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-10-03 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After decades of focusing on the mother's role in parenting, family studies researchers have turned their attention to the role of the father in parenting and family development. The results shed new light on childhood development and question conventional wisdom by showing that beyond providing the more traditional economic support of the family, fathers do indeed matter when it comes to raising a child. Stemming from a series of workshops and publications sponsored by the Family and Child Well-Being Network, under the federal fatherhood initiative of the National Institute of Child Health and Development, this comprehensive volume focuses on ways of measuring the efficacy of father involvement in different scenarios, using different methods of assessment and different populations. In the process, new research strategies and new parental paradigms have been formulated to include paternal involvement. Moreover, this volume contains articles from a variety of influences while addressing the task of finding the missing pieces of the fatherhood construct that would work for new age, as well as traditional and minority fathers. The scope of this discussion offers topics of interest to basic researchers, as well as public policy analysts.
Download or read book Nonresident Father Involvement and Child Outcomes Among Young Children in Families on Welfare written by Angela Dungee Greene and published by . This book was released on 1996* with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book America s Fathers and Public Policy written by Nancy A. Crowell and published by National Academies. This book was released on 1994 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the full text of "America's Fathers and Public Policy: Report of a Workshop," edited by Nancy A. Crowell and Ethel M. Leeper. Lists committee members and workshop participants and notes acknowledgments. Remarks that the Board on Children and Families convened the workshop, "America's Fathers: Abiding and Emerging Roles in Family and Economic Support Policies," held in Washington, D.C., on September 26-28, 1993. Notes that the main topics of discussion centered around child support, teenage fathers, fathers of disabled children, and inner-city poor fathers. The Report from the workshop examines such topics as economic support, barriers and incentives to involvement, and public policy regarding fathers' rights. Contains a bibliography, a list of references and suggested directions for research, and the workshop's agenda. Links to the home pages of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and the National Academy Press (NAP), as well as to other reports.
Download or read book Doing the Best I Can written by Kathryn Edin and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across the political spectrum, unwed fatherhood is denounced as one of the leading social problems of today. Doing the Best I Can is a strikingly rich, paradigm-shifting look at fatherhood among inner-city men often dismissed as “deadbeat dads.” Kathryn Edin and Timothy J. Nelson examine how couples in challenging straits come together and get pregnant so quickly—without planning. The authors chronicle the high hopes for forging lasting family bonds that pregnancy inspires, and pinpoint the fatal flaws that often lead to the relationship’s demise. They offer keen insight into a radical redefinition of family life where the father-child bond is central and parental ties are peripheral. Drawing on years of fieldwork, Doing the Best I Can shows how mammoth economic and cultural changes have transformed the meaning of fatherhood among the urban poor. Intimate interviews with more than 100 fathers make real the significant obstacles faced by low-income men at every step in the familial process: from the difficulties of romantic relationships, to decision-making dilemmas at conception, to the often celebratory moment of birth, and finally to the hardships that accompany the early years of the child's life, and beyond.
Download or read book Factors Associated with Father Involvement Among Nonresident African American Fathers and Current Interventions Effectiveness in Enhancing Father Involvement written by Nicole Patricia Soto and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nonresident father involvement is a widespread issue that impacts children among all racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic statuses. More than half of all African American children are raised by single mothers. Studies have shown the consequence of single parenting and their correlation to parental stress and negative outcomes for young African American children. This thesis project sought to enhance the understanding of the determinants of nonresident fathering among African American fathers. This project was guided by two research questions: 1) what factors are associated with involvement among nonresident African American fathers? 2) how do father-specific intervention programs compare to two-parent intervention programs in enhancing involvement among nonresident African American fathers? This thesis project was conducted using 46 peer-reviewed studies from the California State University of Los Angeles online journal library. The databases used to obtain articles were: EBSCOhost, ProQuest, SAGE, and Springer Standard Collection. Results indicated that 1) father characteristics including developmental history, mental health disorder, and parenting self-efficacy, 2) child characteristics such as child's age and child temperament/behavioral issues, and 3) contextual stress and support including co-parental alliance and co-parental relationship are factors linked to nonresident father involvement. Results revealed that father-specific intervention programs are effective in improving parenting behaviors, competence, and strengthen the father-child relationship. Results showed that two-parent intervention programs are effective in enhancing the co-parental relationship, improving communication skills, and decision-making abilities. The implications for future research suggest studying the barriers to nonresident fathering.
Download or read book Nonresident Father Perceptions of Consistent Involvement with Children s School based Endeavors written by Gloria Christine Jenkins and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Domestically, there is a widespread acknowledgment by educational scholars that there exists the need for nonresident fathers to be consistently involved in their children’s school-based endeavors. For more than a decade, researchers recognized that nonresident father involvement is essential to the academic success of students enrolled in inner-city public schools. Current nonresident father involvement studies suggest that nonresident father current school-based involvement experiences may impact nonresident fathers’ perceptions. How nonresident fathers perceive their roles in the academic development of their children affects their beliefs and parenting values toward school-based participation. The literature shows that there are benefits to understanding the academic outcomes for children when nonresident fathers are involved. The purpose of this phenomenological study was to understand through qualitative methods, essential components related to nonresident father’s consistent involvement in their children’s schoolbased endeavors among a sample of 10 nonresident African American fathers. Through a phenomenological approach, I sought to understand the beliefs and values related to schoolbased involved parenting of inner-city nonresident fathers. I intended to investigate nonresident father school-based involvement experiences with their children. The findings underline how nonresident father perceptions influence their involvement with their children’s school-based endeavors. The participants from this study demonstrated a desire to continue to consistently support their children’s school-based endeavors.
Download or read book Fatherhood written by Elizabeth Peters and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fatherhood: Research, Interventions, and Policies addresses the central questions of the role of fathers: What is the impact of father involvement on child outcomes? What factors predict increased involvement of fathers? This volume includes contributions by leading scholars in a multitude of fields. The discussion of fatherhood ranges well beyond the case of intact, middle-class, white families to include fathers from many other situations and ethnic groups. This comprehensive, powerful book combines pioneering empirical research with thoughtful consideration of the social and psychological implications of fatherhood.
Download or read book Parental Life Courses after Separation and Divorce in Europe written by Michaela Kreyenfeld and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book assembles landmark studies on divorce and separation in European countries, and how this affects the life of parents and children. It focuses on four major areas of post-separation lives, namely (1) economic conditions, (2) parent-child relationships, (3) parent and child well-being, and (4) health. Through studies from several European countries, the book showcases how legal regulations and social policies influence parental and child well-being after divorce and separation. It also illustrates how social policies are interwoven with the normative fabric of a country. For example, it is shown that father-child contact after separation is more intense in those countries which have adopted policies that encourage shared parenting. Correspondingly, countries that have adopted these regulations are at the forefront of more egalitarian gender role attitudes. Apart from a strong emphasis on the legal and social policy context, the studies in this volume adopt a longitudinal perspective and situate post-separation behaviour and well-being in the life course. The longitudinal perspective opens up new avenues for research to understand how behaviour and conditions prior or at divorce and separation affect later behaviour and well-being. As such this book is of special appeal to scholars of family research as well as to anyone interested in the role of divorce and separation in Europe in the 21st century.
Download or read book Failing Our Fathers written by Ronald B. Mincy and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Failing our Fathers, Ron Mincy and his colleagues present a more comprehensive picture of how these men face significant obstacles and explore unintended effects of policies designed to secure financial support for their children, the effectiveness of the few policies that have been designed to offer relief.
