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«The Effects of Single - Mother Families and Nonresident Fathers on Delinquency and Substance Abuse in Black and White Adolescents.»
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The effects of nonresident father involvement on single black mothers and their young children.
References: Dunn J, Cheng H, O'Connor TG & Bridges L (2004) «Children's perspectives on their relationships with their nonresident fathers: influences, outcomes and implications» Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines 45 (3): 553 - 566
While father absence has been associated with a host of negative children's outcomes, including increased risk of dropping out of school and lower educational attainment, poorer physical and mental health, and behavioural problems,36 - 40 higher levels of involvement by nonresident fathers may assuage the negative effects of father absence on children's outcomes.41, 42 Quality of the parents» relationship before divorce, or of the pre-divorce father / child relationship, can also be an important factor: children fare worse following divorce when pre-divorce relationships were good and fare better when pre-divorce relationships were poor, 43,44 suggesting children are sometimes better off without a father if the father's relationship to the child or the mother was not good.
Teenage males who looked more «favorably» on pregnancy (saying it «wouldn't be that bad if they got a young woman pregnant») were 20 % more likely to become «nonresident fathers,» living away from their children.
The results of this study provide empirical evidence on the steps that child welfare agencies currently take to identify, locate and involve nonresident fathers in case planning; the barriers encountered; and the policies and practices that affect involvement.
Consequently, child welfare and child support agencies have placed new emphasis on identifying, locating, and involving nonresident fathers of children served by the child welfare system.
Nonresident father involvement could also, however, be detrimental if fathers acted in ways that interfered with child health and development or if poor relationship quality between the father and mother led to lower - quality parenting behaviors on her part.
One study uses mothers» reports of nonresident father involvement with a representative sample of children in 1997.34 Of those fathers, 34 percent had no contact with the child's household at all, and 49 percent had no influence on decision making.
Among fathers, unpartnered resident fathers are rated highest by adolescents on parental involvement, especially in the more traditionally female - oriented items such as shopping and talking about social events and problems, although they were no more involved overall than nonresident mothers.»
Fact: «While public sentiment has been in favor of nonresident father's involvement in family life, there is limited research evidence of whether their involvement yields positive benefits for children (King, 1994) and for the functioning of the biological family unit... most studies, particularly those based on large national databases, have not been able to detect a significant connection between the nonresident father's contact with his child and the child's well - being (Furstenberg et al., 1987; King, 1994).
This finding is consistent with the meta - analysis by Amato and Gilbreth (1999) showing that when it comes to nonresident father involvement, although feelings of closeness and indicators of authoritative parenting have the strongest influence on child well - being, the effects are generally modest... Our results also reveal that the quality of the mother - child relationship has stronger, more consistent effects on adolescent well - being than the nonresident father - child relationship.
[However] while the percentage of children living apart from their fathers has increased in recent decades, little national - level research has been conducted on the role that fathers living apart from their children play in their lives, and the relationship between nonresident father involvement and child outcome.»
Engaging Noncustodial Fathers in Child Welfare Cases: A Guide for Children's Attorneys and Lawyer Guardians ad Litem (PDF - 4,198 KB) Pilnik & Kendall (2010) National Quality Improvement Center on Non-Resident Fathers and the Child Welfare System Offers practice tips to identify and engage nonresident fathers in child clients» cases while keeping the child's best interests at the forFathers in Child Welfare Cases: A Guide for Children's Attorneys and Lawyer Guardians ad Litem (PDF - 4,198 KB) Pilnik & Kendall (2010) National Quality Improvement Center on Non-Resident Fathers and the Child Welfare System Offers practice tips to identify and engage nonresident fathers in child clients» cases while keeping the child's best interests at the forFathers and the Child Welfare System Offers practice tips to identify and engage nonresident fathers in child clients» cases while keeping the child's best interests at the forfathers in child clients» cases while keeping the child's best interests at the forefront.
All these studies, however, also report that the quality of the mother - child relationship has a stronger, more consistent effect on adolescent well - being than the father - child relationship... The effects of nonresident father involvement on adolescent well - being found in this study are clearly modest.
Fact: «Using data from subsets ranging in size from 777 to 1,501 children from the child supplement to the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY), a series of multivariate regression models were tested to determine whether the effects of nonresident father involvement on child well - being vary by race, mother's education, or whether the child was born within or outside of marriage.
«The stronger association between adolescent outcomes and ties to nonresident mothers compared with ties to stepmothers stands in contrast to the results reported in prior research on resident mother families where close ties to resident stepfathers are more strongly associated with positive adolescent outcomes than ties to nonresident biological fathers (King, 2006; White & Gilbreth, 2001), suggesting important differences in the role of nonresident parents and stepparents by gender....
While father absence has been associated with a host of negative children's outcomes, including increased risk of dropping out of school and lower educational attainment, poorer physical and mental health, and behavioural problems,36 - 40 higher levels of involvement by nonresident fathers may assuage the negative effects of father absence on children's outcomes.41, 42 Quality of the parents» relationship before divorce, or of the pre-divorce father / child relationship, can also be an important factor: children fare worse following divorce when pre-divorce relationships were good and fare better when pre-divorce relationships were poor, 43,44 suggesting children are sometimes better off without a father if the father's relationship to the child or the mother was not good.
Children's perspectives on their relationships with their nonresident fathers: influences, outcomes and implications.