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JCPR: WORKING PAPER ABSTRACT
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Family Structure, Father Involvement and Social-Behavioral Outcomes for Children
Marcia J. Carlson
JCPR Working Paper 175
05-31-2000
Abstract:
Family structure has significant consequences for children: on average, children who
spend time in a single-parent family do not fare as well as those reared in a two-parent
family regardless of race, education, or parental remarriage (McLanahan and Sandefur
1994); they are more likely to experience increased academic difficulties and higher
levels of emotional, psychological and behavioral problems (see, for example, Cooksey
and Fondell 1996; Hanson, McLanahan and Thomson 1997; Dawson 1991). While this
finding is robust, insufficient attention has been paid to the underlying mechanisms by
which family structure affects child outcomes (Wu et al. 1997). This project seeks to
extend the family structure literature by examining how family type influences child
outcomes. Specifically, I will analyze the effect of father involvement on children's
social-behavioral outcomes and how father involvement mediates between family
structure and child outcomes.
Because single-parent families are predominately headed by women (84 percent in 1996)
(Committee on Ways and Means 1998), discussion about improving child well-being has
primarily focused on fathers and how to strengthen the connection between noncustodial
fathers and their children. Within the public policy community, emphasis has been on
increasing the financial contributions of fathers to their children through child support
enforcement. While financial responsibility of parents for their children is essential,
economic support is only one dimension of the important role that fathers can play in
their children's lives. This project looks at another aspect of how fathers can affect the
well-being of their children. In particular, I will examine the effect of the nature, quality
and quantity of father-child interaction on children's social-behavioral outcomes to
determine whether children with active and engaged fathers fare better than those whose
fathers are less involved in their lives.
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Data from the new Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) Child Development
Supplement will be utilized. The Child Development Supplement was added to the PSID
in 1997 in order to provide direct assessments of children's development and
1997 data
experiences; the total sample includes 3,591 children from approximately 2,400
households (Hofferth, 1998). This data set offers unique and in-depth information about
parental involvement in children's lives that is not currently available in any comparable
nationally-representative data set.
Preliminary Draft - Final Draft Due August 31
Download full paper:
"Family Structure, Father Involvement and Social-Behavioral Outcomes for
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6/7/2000
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