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Title: Consequences of Outside Father Involvement for Children's Well-Being
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1. King, Valarie
Consequences of Outside Father Involvement for Children's Well-Being
Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 1993
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79
Publisher: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT)
Keyword(s): Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Child Support; Family Influences; Fathers, Absence; Marital Status; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Self-Esteem; Self-Perception Profile for Children (SPPC); Well-Being

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Given current rates of divorce and out-of-wedlock childbearing nonresident paternal parenting is becoming increasingly common. Recent public sentiment has increasingly called for the involvement of these fathers in their children's lives under the assumption that such involvement will have positive benefits for children. Yet there is only limited evidence for this assumption. Previous studies of the effects of father involvement for children offer contradictory findings. This dissertation extends knowledge of the consequences of paternal involvement for child well-being. Using data from the child supplement to the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) it tests through a series of multivariate regression models whether father visitation or the payment of child support is significantly associated with several measures of child well-being. A second related objective of this dissertation is to specify the conditions that promote the importance of nonresident father involvement for child well-being. The results indicate that overall there is only limited evidence to support the hypothesis that nonresident father involvement has positive benefits for children. The strongest evidence is for the effect of child support in the domain of academic achievement.
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King, Valarie. Consequences of Outside Father Involvement for Children's Well-Being. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 1993.