Single‐Father Families: A Review of the Literature

Coles, Roberta L.

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“…Conversely, higher levels of maternal rejection are associated with greater behaviour problems such as aggression [73,74]. Moreover, there is evidence that single fathers have weaker interpersonal and affective bonds with their children, and exhibit less supervision and monitoring [75], compounding the possible effects of mother absence. However, the current results prohibit us from drawing firm conclusions, and these interpretations thus remain speculative, and future research is needed to understand the exact underlying processes of family influence on adolescents' experiences of violence victimisation and perpetration.…”

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Violence typologies and sociodemographic correlates in South African adolescents: a three-wave cross-sectional study

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Background: Violence victimisation and violence perpetration may co-occur in adolescents. Understanding the sociodemographic correlates of the independent and joint profiles of victimisation and perpetration may inform preventive interventions. This study examined the associations of sociodemographic factors with four violence typologies, namely, 1) non-involvement in both victimisation and perpetration, 2) victims only, 3) perpetrators only, and 4) victim-perpetrators. Trends in the prevalence of the four violence typologies over the three survey years were also examined. Methods: We used data from the three nationally representative South African Youth Risk Behaviour Surveys conducted in 2002, 2008, and 2011 and included a multi-ethnic sample of adolescents (n = 30,007; boy: 46.9%, girls: 53.1%; M age = 16 years, SD = .06).Results: The sample consisted of 8030 (30.8%) adolescents who had non-involvement in both victimisation and perpetration, 8217 were victims only (29.8%), 2504 were perpetrators only (9.0%), and 7776 were victimperpetrators (24.6%). Logistic regression analyses showed that being a girl increased the odds of non-involvement (OR: 1.47, 99% CI: 1.36-1.58) and being victims only (OR: 1.90, 99% CI: 1.76-2.05). Being a boy increased the odds of being perpetrators only (OR: 0.42, 99% CI: 0.37-0.47) and victim-perpetrators (OR: 0.51, 99% CI: 0.47-0.55). Adolescents who did not have an absent mother had higher odds of non-involvement (OR: 0.78, 99% CI: 0.62-0.97). Lower monthly allowance increased the odds of victimisation only (OR: 0.99, 99% CI: 0.97-1.00), whereas higher monthly allowance increased the odds of perpetration only (OR: 1.05, 99% CI: 1.03-1.08). Trend analysis showed that between 2002 to 2011, there was an increase in the prevalence of non-involvement in adolescents (p < .001), a decrease in the prevalence of victims only (p < .05) and victim-perpetrators (p < .001), and no changes in the prevalence of perpetrators only (p > .05). Conclusions: Sociodemographic factors are uniquely associated with different violence typologies suggesting the need for tailored interventions to target adolescents with differed risks to violence victimisation and perpetration. Strengthening family relations, particularly between mother and child, may protect adolescents from the experiences of victimisation and perpetration.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Violence typologies and sociodemographic correlates in South African adolescents: a three-wave cross-sectional study

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“…The first of these moderators distinguishes the perceptions of relationship quality from youth with male or female caregivers. Overwhelmingly, the literature examining parental gender effects on children's behaviour has found that children who are parented by males are at increased risk for a broad range of negative social and emotional outcomes (Coles, 2015). It was anticipated that youth with male primary caregivers would report lower quality relationships than would youth who were cared for by women.…”

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“…More is known about the role of male caregivers in the development of juvenile delinquency generally. Coles (2015) demonstrated that youth living with only male caregivers were more likely to engage in delinquent behaviour or be diagnosed with an externalising disorder than those living in households with women. Similarly, Breivik and Olweus (2006) found that youth living solely with single-fathers had significantly higher levels of externalising problems than did children living with single mothers.…”

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The impact of disrupted caregiving for juvenile sexual offenders

Sitney

Kaufman

2019

Journal of Sexual Aggression

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Research that attempts to understand why young people commit sex crimes points to an array of family factors that may uniquely contribute to sexual offending over general juvenile delinquency. This study examines the potentially moderating role of disrupted caregiving in the relationship between offending and caregiver-child relationship quality. Two distinct moderators were tested: gender of caregiver and biological relationship between caregiver and child. Results indicate that juvenile sexual offenders have particularly poor relationships with their primary caregivers compared to incarcerated non-sexual offenders and community controls. Furthermore, sexual offenders with male caregivers were found to have lower relationship quality scores than sexual offenders with female caregivers. In contrast, sexual offenders raised by non-biological caregivers reported better relationship quality than did offenders raised by their biological parents. These findings suggest opportunities for early intervention, before caregiving is disrupted.

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“…Census Bureau, 2016). Although many single-parent households thrive, in general they face challenges such as reduced financial resources, limited social support, social stigma, and constraints on time spent with their children (Coles, 2015;McLanahan & Sandefur, 1994). While all types of single-parent families challenge the normative preference for two-parent families, the single gay fathers in California and Texas's gay fathers' groups can best be characterized as single parents by choice.…”

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In Visible Families: Gay Fatherhood and the Politics of Family Change

Carroll¹

2019

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Who counts as a gay father? The answer to this question reaches beyond demographics, encompassing histories of family inequality, LGBTQ identity, and social movements. Presentations of gay fathers in the media and scholarship are often skewed toward white, middle-class, coupled men who became parents via adoption or surrogacy. Yet the demographic majority of gay parents continue to have children in heterosexual unions. My dissertation research uses ethnographic and interview data to argue that contemporary narratives of gay fatherhood have prematurely dismissed gay parents who have children in heterosexual unions. The choice to exclude gay fathers via heterosexual unions can be attributed to emerging narratives of LGBTQ identity and political strategies of the marriage equality movement. The consequences of gay fathers’ disproportionate visibility have led to a stratified system of access to gay parenting resources. By identifying the mechanisms that undermine gay fathers’ diversity in the public imagination and in gay parenting community settings, my dissertation amplifies the voices of marginalized gay fathers and offers an intersectional approach to the study of LGBTQ families through a social movements framework.

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Single‐Father Families: A Review of the Literature

Cited by 55 publications

References 60 publications

Violence typologies and sociodemographic correlates in South African adolescents: a three-wave cross-sectional study

Violence typologies and sociodemographic correlates in South African adolescents: a three-wave cross-sectional study

The impact of disrupted caregiving for juvenile sexual offenders

In Visible Families: Gay Fatherhood and the Politics of Family Change

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