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Title: Sibling Resemblance in Behavioral and Cognitive Outcomes: The Role of Father Presence
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Teachman, Jay D. Day, Randal D. Carver, Karen P. Call, Vaughn R. A. Paasch, Kathleen M. |
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Sibling Resemblance in Behavioral and Cognitive Outcomes: The Role of Father Presence Presented: Bethesda, MD, Conference on Father Involvement, October 1996 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79 Publisher: Author Keyword(s): Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Behavioral Differences; Cognitive Development; Family Structure; Fathers, Absence; Fathers, Involvement; Modeling; Parents, Single; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Siblings Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Using longitudinal data on sibling pairs from the NLSY, we investigate the influence of father-presence on behavioral and cognitive outcomes. Our results indicate that children who live in one-parent families exhibit more behavioral problems and have lower mathematics and reading ability. The differences across time between children in two-parent and one-parent families are very stable for behavioral problems and mathematics ability. For reading ability, however, the difference between children in two-parent and one-parent families increase over time. In addition, there is a drop over time in the percentage of between-family variance in reading scores, particularly for younger siblings. This pattern suggests an increasing sensitivity of reading ability to extra-familial sources of influence as children age. That this increased sensitivity to extra-familial influences results in lower reading scores only for children in one-parent families suggests that a different set of non familial factors are operating for these children. |
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Teachman, Jay D., Randal D. Day, Karen P. Carver, Vaughn R. A. Call and Kathleen M. Paasch. "Sibling Resemblance in Behavioral and Cognitive Outcomes: The Role of Father Presence." Presented: Bethesda, MD, Conference on Father Involvement, October 1996. |