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Title: Does Parenting Explain the Effects of Structural Conditions on Children's Antisocial Behavior? A Comparison of Blacks and Whites
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1. 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
Social Forces 73,2 (December 1994): 575-604.
Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2579822
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Keyword(s): Aid for Families with Dependent Children (AFDC); Behavior; Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Behavior, Antisocial; Delinquency/Gang Activity; Deviance; Fathers, Absence; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Marital Disruption; Marital Status; Parent-Child Relationship/Closeness; Parents, Single; Poverty; Punishment, Corporal; Racial Differences; Scale Construction; Welfare

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Evaluated race differences in the processes that link poverty and single parenthood to antisocial behavior, drawing on conceptual models that link structural conditions to children's well-being through the mediating influences of parental distress and unsupportive parenting. On the basis of data from the 1988 Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth data set, it was found that the total effects of poverty and single parenthood on parenting practices, and of parenting practices on antisocial behavior, do not differ significantly by race. However, the processes that create those effects do vary by race. Parenting practices and antisocial behavior are reciprocally related for Whites, but parenting practices do not significantly predict antisocial behavior for Blacks. ((c) 1997 APA/PsycINFO, all rights reserved):
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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." Social Forces 73,2 (December 1994): 575-604.