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- Title
Father Involvement and Childhood Injuries.
- Authors
Nepomnyaschy, Lenna; Donnelly, Louis
- Abstract
Unintentional injury is the leading cause of death for children in the United States. Parental supervision is a key factor in preventing injuries, but little is known about the role of fathers. Today, one quarter of children live with a single mother, and another third live with a mother and her new partner, resulting in tremendous diversity in the amount and type of paternal involvement in children's lives. The authors examined the effects of involvement by resident biological, nonresident biological, and resident social fathers on the risk of injury among children from birth to age 5 using data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (N = 4,352). They found that living with a social father and social fathers' more frequent engagement with children increase risk of injury, but only for the youngest children. Higher levels of fathers' cooperative parenting reduce children's risk of injury regardless of fathers' biological or residential status.
- Subjects
UNITED States; FATHERS; ENGAGEMENT (Philosophy); CHILDREN'S injuries; AGE factors in well-being; SOCIAL change; FAMILIES; NONTRADITIONAL families; FATHER-child relationship
- Publication
Journal of Marriage & Family, 2015, Vol 77, Issue 3, p628
- ISSN
0022-2445
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/jomf.12192