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- Title
Fatherhood in St. Kitts: Patterns and Predictors of Partnership and Paternal Dynamics in a Caribbean Island.
- Authors
Gray, Peter B.; Brown, Eulynis
- Abstract
While paternal investment is a defining feature of human behavioral biology, it is also considerably variable, with previous research on African Caribbean fatherhood pointing to a high prevalence of visiting relationships and blended families within which children are raised. The aims of the present study were to characterize key patterns of paternal behavior and to test three hypotheses concerning variation in fatherhood in the Caribbean island of St. Kitts. One hundred two fathers 21-40 years of age completed a questionnaire providing sociodemographic, partnership and paternal data. The sample consisted of working fathers expressing generally favorable paternal attitudes and investments in a relatively low-fertility context. Results revealed key ways in which relationship dynamics structure paternal outcomes, and differences in biological and stepfathering subject to both between- and within-subject analyses.
- Subjects
WEST Indies; HYPOTHESIS; CHI-squared test; STATISTICAL correlation; FAMILIES; FATHER-child relationship; FATHERHOOD; MARITAL status; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION analysis; STATISTICAL sampling; STEPFAMILIES; T-test (Statistics); SAMPLE size (Statistics); FATHERS' attitudes; DATA analysis software; ONE-way analysis of variance
- Publication
Fathering: A Journal of Theory, Research & Practice about Men as Fathers, 2015, Vol 13, Issue 1, p18
- ISSN
1537-6680
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.3149/fth.1301.18