Life course transitions of American children: Parental cohabitation, marriage, and single motherhood

Graefe, Deborah Roempke; Lichter, Daniel T.

doi:10.2307/2648109

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“…1 See, for example, Manning and Lichter (1996), Graefe and Lichter (1999), Bumpass and Lu (2000), Acs and Nelson (2002, Manning (2002), Smock and Gupta (2002), Manning and Lamb (2003), Brown (2004), Manning, Smock and Majumdar (2004) and Artis (2007) for the US, Kiernan (1999), Benson (2006), Ermisch and Pronzato (2008) and Kiernan and Mensah (2010) for the UK and Andersson (2002) for international evidence. 2 See, for example, Feinstein (2000), Heckman, Stixrud and Urzua (2006) and Carneiro, Crawford and Goodman (2007 resources or might reduce parental stress -all of which could lead to better child outcomes.…”

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Cohabitation, marriage, relationship stability and child outcomes: an update

Crawford¹,

Goodman

Greaves³

et al. 2011

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Cohabitation, marriage, relationship stability and child outcomes: an update

Crawford¹,

Goodman

Greaves³

et al. 2011

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“…Coparenting within low-income, African American communities requires further investigation, given the prevalence of nonmarital childbearing among these families (Graefe & Lichter, 1999).…”

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African American Father Involvement and Preschool Children's School Readiness

Downer

Smith

2005

Early Education & Development

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Abstract:A developmental ecological model was used to identify child attributes, father characteristics, and familial factors associated with multidimensional father involvement with preschool children enrolled in Head Start. The relations between father involvement and children's school readiness were also investigated. Eighty-five African American fathers and father figures were surveyed about their involvement in child care, home-based educational and school-based educational activities. Children's school readiness competencies were evaluated via teacher report or direct assessment. Father involvement in child care and home-based educational activities were predicted by different contextual factors and child attributes. Fathers were more involved in child care activities when they lived in a child's home and when a child was highly emotional. Fathers who perceived the existence of a strong parenting alliance reported more involvement in homebased educational activities. Father involvement in child care and home-based educational activities was associated with higher levels of children's emotion regulation. Findings are consistent with a contextual, multidimensional perspective of African American fathering and hold policy implications for fatherhood initiatives in the early childhood education field. Efforts to increase father involvement may be most effective when addressing the multitude of influences on fathering behavior and focusing on father-child activities that occur outside of the preschool setting.

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“…A number of factors make U.S. cohabiting unions potentially disadvantageous environments for raising children, including lower incomes, lower relationship quality, and higher dissolution rates than marriages (Cavanagh and Huston 2006;Graefe and Lichter 1999;Manning and Brown 2006;Manning, Smock, and Majumdar 2004;Osborne and McLanahan 2007;Raley and Wildsmith 2004). Many of these differences predate union formation, and thus reflect the disproportionate selection of couples with the least resources and the lowest expectations for relationship stability into cohabiting relationships and cohabiting parenthood (Kenney and McLanahan 2006;Lillard, Brien, and Waite 1995).…”

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