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- Title
Children of Young Disadvantaged Women Are Unlikely To Receive Consistent Support from Their Fathers.
- Authors
Moore, M.
- Abstract
The article reports on the finding that fewer than one-fifth of children born to disadvantaged single teenagers receive monetary support from their fathers, and only one-half of these noncustodial fathers spend time with their children. Fewer than one-fifth of children born to disadvantaged single teenagers receive monetary support from their fathers, and only about one-half of these noncustodial fathers spend time with their children, according to a survey of young women living in three inner-city areas and receiving Aid to Fain- lies with Dependent Children. Fathers of infants are more likely to provide support than are fathers of children aged 2-4. Fathers with a higher level of education and those who are employed are more likely than other fathers to provide financial, but not social, support for theft children. Over- all, when fathers contribute to their children's care, they are likely to provide both social and economic support, rather than substitute one for the other. The sample consisted of 3,867 young mothers in Camden and Newark, New Jersey, and on the South Side of Chicago who were interviewed when they entered the welfare system between 1987 and 1989, and again approximately two and one-half years later.
- Subjects
UNITED States; CHILD support; FATHER-child relationship; MATERNAL &; infant welfare; CHILD care; CHILD welfare; SOCIAL marginality; POOR children
- Publication
Family Planning Perspectives, 1998, Vol 30, Issue 6, p291
- ISSN
0014-7354
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/2991506