EFFECTS OF FATHER'S ABSENCE--SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC ANALYSES

这项研究的主要目的是澄清 与以下因素相关的各种因素的独立重要性 父母分居(具体地说，父亲不在 家庭)对随后的认知和社会情感的影响 在全国范围内对出生于 一位具有代表性的美国母亲的全国横截面 1986年为21岁至28岁。这项研究将衡量 独立影响(1)当父亲的子女的年龄 离开家，(2)父亲离开后的时间，(3)母亲 就业转型在转型前后的一段时期， (4)过渡后几年的儿童保育；(5) 选定亲属(例如，祖父母、其他男性)在场 成年人)在过渡后的时期，以及(6)父亲 一系列被测量儿童的探视模式与再婚 认知和社会情感的结果。标准多变量 技术(OLS)将用于控制大量的 家庭、母亲和儿童社会、经济、心理和 现有文献显示的生理属性可能 与婚姻破裂和不同的孩子有关 结果。 这项研究还将使用纵向数据进行对比， 就业、教育、收入和儿童保育状况以及 父亲的幼儿家庭的家庭结构-- 现在和父亲不在的环境，并描述这些 随着家庭的搬迁，社会经济和人口因素会发生变化 从有父到无父。 这项研究将使用3000名母亲和5500名儿童的数据 在全国劳动力市场纵向调查中的体会 青春年华。一份完整的就业纵向记录， 这些人的教育、培训和家庭相关经验 妇女和她们的家人，收集在一个 1979至1986年间的连续基准。该示例包括一个 弱势白人、黑人和西班牙裔的代表过多 妇女和儿童以及这一纵向的总体自然减员 1979至1986年间的调查不到7%。 这项研究将能够更全面地考虑 当代孩子父亲的影响 与以前相比，离开家对幼儿的影响更大 有可能。这是因为截至1986年，NLSY包括大约2400个 无父家庭中的儿童，数据集包括 更广泛的背景和同时代的社会和 比其他研究人员通常拥有的经济控制 可用。

The principal objective of this research is to clarify the independent importance of a variety of factors associated with parental separation (specifically, the absence of the father in the home) on the subsequent cognitive and socioemotional development of a national sample of children who have been born to a representative national cross-section of American mothers who are 21 to 28 years of age in 1986. The research will measure the independent effects of (1) the age of the child when the father left the home, (2) the duration since the father left, (3) maternal employment transitions in the period surrounding the transition, (4) childcare in the years following the transition, (5) the presence of selected relatives (e.g., grandparents, other male adults) in the period following the transition, and (6) father visitation patterns and remarriage on a range of measured child cognitive and socioemotional outcomes. Standard multivariate techniques (OLS) will be used controlling for a large variety of family, maternal, and child social, economic, psychological, and physiological attributes which available literature suggests may be correlated with both marital disruption and the various child outcomes. The research will additionally contrast, using longitudinal data, the employment, education, income, and childcare status and household structure of the homes of young children in father- present and father-absent environments, and describe how these socioeconomic and demographic factors changes as a family moves from father-present to father-absent status. The study will use data for the 3,000 mothers and 5,500 children in the National Longitudinal Survey of Labor Market Experience of Youth. A complete longitudinal record of the employment, educational, training, and family related experiences of these women and their families is available, having been collected on a continuing basis between 1979 and 1986. The sample includes an overrepresentation of disadvantaged white, black, and Hispanic women and children and overall attrition for this longitudinal survey between 1979 and 1986 was less than seven percent. This research will be able to more comprehensively consider for a contemporary generation of children the effects of a father's absence from the home on young children than has been previously possible. This is because the NLSY includes as of 1986 about 2,400 children in father-absent households, and the data set includes a much wider range of background and contemporaneous social and economic controls than other researchers have typically had available.