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- Title
Effect of Low-Income Unmarried Fathers' Presence at Birth on Involvement.
- Authors
Bellamy, Jennifer L.; Thullen, Matthew; Hans, Sydney
- Abstract
The birth of a child represents a unique window of opportunity to understand and support ongoing father involvement among low-income unmarried parents. Using data collected as part of a randomized controlled trial of a community-based home visiting intervention provided to 248 low-income African American women, a propensity score matching approach was used to estimate the effect of fathers' presence at birth on multiple measures of later father involvement over the first 2 years postpartum. The results indicated that participation in child care activities is the only form of involvement predicted by presence at birth at 4 months, and none of the forms of father involvement measured were predicted at 12 months; however, presence at birth was predictive of all 7 indicators of involvement at 24 months. Engaging fathers in the birth experience may represent an important opportunity to provide services.
- Subjects
LOW-income parents; UNMARRIED fathers; ENGAGEMENT (Philosophy); POOR African Americans; AFRICAN American mothers; FATHER-child relationship; NONTRADITIONAL families
- Publication
Journal of Marriage & Family, 2015, Vol 77, Issue 3, p647
- ISSN
0022-2445
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/jomf.12193