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Title: Variation in the Consequences of Nonresident Father Involvement for Children's Well-Being
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King, Valarie |
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Variation in the Consequences of Nonresident Father Involvement for Children's Well-Being Journal of Marriage and Family 56,4 (November 1994): 963-972. Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/353606 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: National Council on Family Relations Keyword(s): Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Child Support; Children; Children, Well-Being; Family Environment; Family Structure; Fathers, Absence; Hispanics; Marital Status; Modeling; Mothers, Education; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Racial Differences; Self-Perception Profile for Children (SPPC) Using data from subsets ranging in size from 777 to 1,501 children from the child supplement to the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY), a series of multivariate regression models were tested to determine whether the effects of nonresident father involvement on child well-being vary by race, mother's education, or whether the child was born within or outside of marriage. The results show few interactive effects, and no identifiable set of conditions emerged that increased or reduced the importance of father involvement for child well-being. |
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King, Valarie. "Variation in the Consequences of Nonresident Father Involvement for Children's Well-Being." Journal of Marriage and Family 56,4 (November 1994): 963-972.
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