Unpublished Paper
Guided by ecological resilience perspectives this study examined the association between various risk factors (neighborhood risk, discrimination, peer victimization, fathers' risk behaviors) and African American and Latino adolescent boys' physical and relational aggression. Fathers' parenting behaviors were examined primarily as mediators and moderators of those associations to determine how they might exacerbate or protect against those risks. Both adolescents and their fathers reported on fathers' parenting behaviors. Data were collected from 234 adolescents (mean age of 15.17, 34.2%…
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Journal Article This article uses a sample of 867 African American households to investigate differences in parenting practices and child outcomes by type of household. Results indicate that mothers provide similar levels of parenting regardless of family structure. Secondary caregivers, however, show a great deal of variation in quality of parenting. Fathers and grandmothers engage in the highest quality parenting, stepfathers the poorest, with other relatives falling in between. These differences in parenting do not explain family structure differences in child behavior problems. Results suggest that…
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Journal Article A study of 105 fatherless children from clinics at the University of Florida Children's Mental Health Unit categorized fatherless household lifestyles according to the length of paternal absence. Two groups emerged: (1) the transitional fatherless children, those without fathers for 2 years or less, and (2) the hard-core fatherless children, living with the mother for more than 2 years in paternal absence. A comparison group of 53 children from (3) intact families showed that 15 had experienced some period of fatherlessness establishing a 4th group, (4) historical. It appeared in most cases…
