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Predicting low-income fathers' involvement and the effect of state-level public policies on fathers' involvement with their young childrenMikelson, Kelly S. 27 May 2010 (has links)
This dissertation examines low-income fathers’ involvement with their young
children using the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing (FFCW) data. Chapter 3
entitled, “He Said, She Said: Comparing Father and Mother Reports of Father
Involvement,” compares mother and father reports of fathers’ frequency of involvement
in various activities and in measures of emotional involvement. This chapter finds that
fathers report spending 17.6 percent more time engaged in 11 activities with their young
children than mothers report the father spending. How parental disagreement is
measured yields starkly different results given the underlying distribution of these data.
Chapter 4 entitled, “Estimating the Impact of Child Support and Welfare Policies
on Fathers’ Involvement,” is a longitudinal analysis combining three waves of the FFCW
data with annual, state-level policy data on child support enforcement and welfare
policies. This chapter examines the impact of policies on fathers’ involvement over time.
Fathers’ involvement is operationalized as accessibility, responsibility, and engagement.
Using parents that are unmarried at the time of the focal child’s birth, this chapter finds that public policies do influence fathers’ involvement after controlling for individual
social and demographic characteristics. Policies may be operating in conflicting ways to
both increase and decrease fathers’ involvement. For example, fathers’ daily engagement
is positively affected by stronger paternity establishment policies but is negatively
affected by stronger child support enforcement collection rates and the welfare family cap
policy.
Chapter 5 entitled, “Two Dads Are Better Than One: Biological and Social
Father Involvement,” examines whether biological and social fathers are substitutes or
complements in a child’s life and how biological fathers and social fathers impact the
mother’s frequency of involvement. This chapter finds that resident social fathers
contribute as much time to the focal child as resident biological fathers. Factors that
increase the overall parental frequency of involvement include having: a resident
biological or social father, native-born parents, a biological father who had a very
involved father, and a positive relationship between the biological parents. Factors that
decrease overall parental frequency of involvement include: the father’s new partner, the
father’s incarceration, a mother’s other children, and the child’s increasing age. / text
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Defying the odds: Child health and wellbeing in the context of maternal depressionDow-Fleisner, Sarah Jeanne January 2017 (has links)
Thesis advisor: Summer S. Hawkins / Preventing poor health in childhood is a national social work and public health priority in the United States. Importantly, child health and wellbeing is explicitly linked with maternal health. Thus, maternal depression, a common mental illness, is a concern not only for the mother, but for the health of her offspring. The purpose of this three-paper dissertation was to extend the understanding of child health and wellbeing at age 9 years old in the context of maternal depression. Analyses utilized data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing study and were guided by a resilience perspective, life course perspective, family systems theory, and ecological systems theory. Paper 1 examined the unique impact of maternal depression on child physical health outcomes utilizing a series of logistic regression analyses. Findings indicated that multiple individual-, maternal-, and family-level risk and protective factors influenced the association between maternal depression and child physical health. Paper 2 utilized latent profile analysis and multinomial logistic regression analyses to examine child physical health and psychosocial wellbeing in the context of maternal depression. Five distinct profiles of child health and wellbeing were identified, suggesting the traditional dichotomy of healthy versus unhealthy may fail to capture the complex nature of child health and wellbeing for those experiencing maternal depression. Results showed that maternal depression was associated with increased risk of poor health and wellbeing, yet also emphasized the ability for children to achieve resilient functioning. Paper 3 explored the impact of maternal depression on the maternal-child relationship and the protective nature of interpersonal supports and community resources. Findings indicated that interpersonal and community resources directly and indirectly supported a positive maternal-child relationship for mothers with depression. Altogether, results extend the literature base by providing a more nuanced and complete examination of child health and wellbeing in the context of maternal depression, with a focus on the potential for resilient functioning among this at-risk population. Findings provide evidence that even in the context of risk, protective factors exist that support resilient functioning. Results have important policy and practical implications, including continued screenings for maternal depression in a primary care setting. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2017. / Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Social Work. / Discipline: Social Work.
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Food Insecurity and Housing Instability for Fragile FathersResor, Jessica 04 April 2020 (has links)
While reducing food insecurity is a major health initiative, most studies and programs focus only on health-related outcomes and not on other types of hardships. This secondary data analysis of the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study examined the relationship between food insecurity and housing instability with social support, parental depression, and material hardship in vulnerable fathers. Using structural equation modeling on Wave 3 data, the final resulting model was X2 (4, N= 4898) = 3.72 at p = .444. For fathers, material hardship, depression, social support impact the relationship between food insecurity and housing instability. This research has implications for programs and services that may serve low income, single, or minority fathers and families to provide supports to improve food and house instabilities. Agencies and organizations should examine material hardship, not just health-related outcomes. They should provide services for mental health concerns as well as facilitate greater social support.
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Father Involvement and Relationship Quality among Cohabiting ParentsRinelli, Lauren N. 29 July 2009 (has links)
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Masculinity and Men's Intimate and Fathering Relationships: A Focus on Race and Institutional ParticipationKrivickas, Kristy 26 October 2010 (has links)
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What stands in the way of the transition to marriage among unmarried, new parents?Melz, Heidi Marie 02 June 2011 (has links)
This study examines the transition to marriage among low-income urban mothers and fathers who are unmarried and have a newborn baby together. The study contributes to an emerging body of research that explores the concept of obstacles to marriage by testing whether obstacles to marriage operate in the way that the descriptive literature has proposed: by standing in the way of loving and committed couples who might otherwise make a smooth transition to marriage. Using survival analysis techniques and data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, and introducing a new measure, the Headed to Marriage Index, the study tests the influence that three categories of determinants of marriage — relationship quality, investment in the relationship, and guiding values and beliefs — have on how long couples with a newborn remain unmarried to each other. It also determines whether and how the association between these determinants of marriage and time to marriage is affected by the presence of three obstacles to marriage: low education, poverty, and multiple partner fertility.
Results show that the Headed to Marriage Index can be used to estimate hazard of marriage among these couples, and that as a predictor of marriage behavior, this simple index performs nearly as well as the individual components that it comprises. Results also show that low education, being in poverty, and having multiple partner fertility are formidable obstacles that might help to explain why some new parents never marry each other, even though they report wanting to. Finally, interaction terms using the Headed to Marriage Index and each of the three obstacles to marriage test the hypothesis that the extent to which these obstacles to marriage matter might differ depending a couple’s score on the Headed to Marriage Index. The results provided evidence that poverty is an obstacle to marriage for couples at all levels of the Headed to Marriage Index, but that its effect grows stronger as HMI score increases. Poverty is a significant barrier to marriage for those who are otherwise most prepared and oriented toward marriage. / text
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Parental Incarceration and Juvenile Delinquency: The Role of GenderWeyland, Kirstie S. 09 June 2021 (has links)
Parental incarceration is connected to many negative outcomes for children including negative externalizing behaviors. Most studies are not conclusive in determining whether maternal incarceration or paternal incarceration has a more detrimental impact on children. This study looks at a sample of 2,458 youth from the Fragile Families and Child Well-Being Study (FFCWS) and their parents and compares the gender of the incarcerated parent and that of the child to determine if there are differences in the risk of delinquent behavior among adolescent children. Results found that parental incarceration overall increased the risk of juvenile delinquency and that female children are at greater risk of delinquency if their mothers were incarcerated. Overall, the empirical results suggest that the gender of the parent and child matter in influencing delinquent behavior. Because maternal incarceration appears to be more consequential for female daughters' participation in delinquent acts, there may be a need to have more gendered research when studying juvenile delinquency and parental incarceration.
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Paternal Incarceration and Children's Behavior: Uncovering the Not-So-Universal Effects of Fathers' IncarcerationWashington, Heather Marie 14 August 2012 (has links)
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Not Quite Out on the Streets: Examining Protective and Risk Factors for Housing Insecurity among Low-Income Urban FathersWynn, Colleen E. 01 May 2013 (has links)
It has long been acknowledged that housing is essential for access to employment, social services, healthcare, and other forms of assistance that help move people out of poverty. Through identifying dimensions of housing insecurity, policymakers, as well as researchers, will have a better understanding of the protective factors that make families more secure and the risk factors that raise their level of insecurity. These analyses use resident and non-resident, low-income, urban fathers’ responses to the five publicly available waves of the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing (n = 4378) dataset to examine the relationship between protective and risk factors and housing insecurity. As access to protective factors increases, fathers’ risk of housing semi-insecurity and insecurity decreases, and as fathers are more exposed to risk factors, both their housing semi-insecurity and insecurity risks increase.
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Childhood Exposure to Intimate Partner Violence and Socioemotional Development from Early to Middle ChildhoodGordon, Diandra Renee 28 May 2015 (has links)
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