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Source: Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota
Resulting in 2 citations.
1. Kruttschnitt, Candace
McLeod, Jane D.
Dornfeld, Maude
Does Parenting Explain the Effects of Structural Conditions on Children?
Working Paper No. 91-4, Life Course Center, Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota, 1991
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79, Young Women
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Keyword(s): Aid for Families with Dependent Children (AFDC); Alcohol Use; Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Behavior, Antisocial; Behavioral Problems; Children, Behavioral Development; Delinquency/Gang Activity; Deviance; Drug Use; Fathers, Absence; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Household Composition; Marital Disruption; Marital Status; Parental Influences; Parents, Single; Poverty; Racial Differences

This study examines the interrelationships among social locations, parenting and antisocial behavior for both black and white children. Based on previous theoretical formulations, the authors hypothesized that the effects of social locations on children's antisocial behavior would be mediated by parenting processes and would vary by racial group. Despite minor race differences in the processes linking social locations to antisocial behavior, the general structure of these processes are quite similar for blacks and whites. Specifically, among children of both races, parenting behaviors offer a nearly complete explanation for the higher levels of antisocial behavior observed among poor children. Similar results do not appear for the other social locations that were examined. Parenting behaviors explained relatively little of the relationship between marital disruptions and antisocial behavior and maternal deviance and antisocial behavior, regardless of race.
Bibliography Citation
Kruttschnitt, Candace, Jane D. McLeod and Maude Dornfeld. "Does Parenting Explain the Effects of Structural Conditions on Children?" Working Paper No. 91-4, Life Course Center, Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota, 1991.
2. McLeod, Jane D.
Kruttschnitt, Candace
Dornfeld, Maude
Does Parenting Explain the Effects of Structural Conditions on Children's Antisocial Behavior? A Comparison of Blacks and Whites
Working Paper, Minneapolis, MN: Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota, 1993
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79
Publisher: Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota
Keyword(s): Aid for Families with Dependent Children (AFDC); Alcohol Use; Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Behavioral Problems; Children, Behavioral Development; Children, Well-Being; Deviance; Fathers, Absence; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Household Composition; Marital Status; Parents, Single; Poverty; Racial Differences; Welfare; Well-Being

Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher.

Despite the fact that black children are disproportionately likely to live in poverty and with single mothers, evidence about the effects of those experiences on antisocial behavior is based largely on samples of white children. We draw on conceptual models which link structural conditions to children's well-being through the mediating influences of parental distress and unsupportive parenting, to evaluate race differences in the processes which link poverty and single parenthood to antisocial behavior. Based on data from the 1988 Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth data set, the effects of poverty and single-parenthood on parenting, and of parenting on antisocial behavior, do not differ significantly by race. Furthermore, variations in parenting account for some, but not all, of the effects of structural condition on antisocial behavior in both groups.
Bibliography Citation
McLeod, Jane D., Candace Kruttschnitt and Maude Dornfeld. "Does Parenting Explain the Effects of Structural Conditions on Children's Antisocial Behavior? A Comparison of Blacks and Whites." Working Paper, Minneapolis, MN: Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota, 1993.