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- Title
In Intact Poor Families, Parents Affect Teenagers' Well-Being Unequally.
- Authors
Remez, L.
- Abstract
This article focuses on how in poor two-parent families, fathers' emotional and physical availability to their children provides little protection from adverse adolescent outcomes. Mothers' emotional or behavioral involvement does significantly reduce the likelihood that adolescents in poor families will experience low educational and employment attainment, depression, delinquency, and childbirth or conception. However, an analysis of the effects of parental involvement on adolescent well-being in intact two-parent families indicates that both mothers' and fathers' involvement benefits adolescents in families that are not poor. The analysis was based on longitudinal data from the National Survey of Children, a nationally representative survey of social and psychological characteristics of U.S. children. The sample for the analysis of the effects of parental involvement on adolescent well-being consisted of 748 children (87 percent white and 13 percent nonwhite) who had lived continuously with two parents at all three interviews.
- Subjects
FAMILIES; TEENAGERS; PARENTS; CONCEPTION; DEPRESSION in adolescence; SURVEYS
- Publication
Family Planning Perspectives, 1997, Vol 29, Issue 2, p94
- ISSN
0014-7354
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/2953372