Paternal Involvement of Low Income AA Fathers of Children in Multiple Households

多个家庭中孩子的低收入 AA 父亲的父亲参与

• 批准号: 8277221
• 负责人: CONSTANCE Miles DALLAS
• 金额: $ 63.88万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-07-01 至 2015-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8277221
• 关键词: Address; Adolescent; Adopted; Adult; African American; Aid to Families with Dependent Children; Behavior; Caregivers; Child; Complex; Divorce; Drops; Economics; Face; Family; Family Relationship; Family member; Fathers; Friends; Future; General Population; Goals; Household; Incidence; Individual; Interview; Juvenile Delinquency; Knowledge; Life; Link; Longitudinal Studies; Low income; Marriage; Marriage and Family; Mediation; Mothers; Multiple Partners; Outcome; Parenting behavior; Parents; Personal Satisfaction; Persons; Pilot Projects; Policies; Population; Pregnancy; Process; Qualitative Research; Remarriages; Resources; Role; Schools; Sex Behavior; Shapes; Siblings; Telephone; Time; Transportation; Unmarried; Visit; accomplished suicide; contextual factors; design; experience; father role; fatherhood; flexibility; grandparent; improved; innovation; mathematical ability; member; men; racial and ethnic; research study; theories; trait

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The purpose of this grounded theory study is to develop a theoretical understanding of successful father involvement for low-income African American fathers of children with different mothers. Successful father involvement is defined as frequent in-person or telephone contact, but not less than once a month. About one- fourth to one-third of African American men fathered children with two or more mothers, a rate double that of the general population. Existing policies, such as Healthy Marriage Promotion and Responsible Fatherhood and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Fatherhood, Marriage and Families Innovation, and the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, are designed to promote the involvement of nonresidential fathers and to develop two- parent families but fail to address the challenges and complexity of father involvement in families of men who father children with different mothers. These fathers face challenges of having less involvement with their children than men who have children with a single mother and parenting across multiple households. Type and amount of father involvement may differ across siblings and may have long term consequences for child outcomes and sibling relationships. A more comprehensive understanding of successful father involvement will be gained by performing in-depth individual interviews from the multiple perspectives of 10-15 networks, the persons who shape his fatherhood role. At minimum, each network will include: the father, two of the mothers/ primary caregivers of his children and one person, designated by the father, as either negatively or positively influencing his paternal role. Whenever possible the romantic partners of the father and the mothers, the paternal and maternal grandparents and up to three persons who influence his father role will also be included. The end product will be a culturally-appropriate description that addresses the unique challenges facing low- income, African American fathers of children with different mothers and can improve father-involvement thus, enhancing positive child outcomes, informing practitioners of these fathers' need for greater time flexibility, and improving future research with these fathers. Future directions include identifying unique paternal contributions to child outcomes that can be utilized to better understand the fatherhood role of any racial/ethnic or economic group. The specific aims of this study are to identify, for networks of low-income, African American fathers of children with different mothers: A theoretical explanation of successful father involvement; 2. the network and contextual factors that promote or inhibit successful father involvement; and 3. differences in father involvement with each child that may contribute to differences in child outcomes.

描述(由申请人提供)：这项扎根的理论研究的目的是为低收入的非洲裔美国人父亲的不同母亲的孩子发展一种成功的父亲参与的理论理解。成功的父亲参与被定义为频繁的面对面或电话联系，但不少于每月一次。大约四分之一到三分之一的非洲裔美国男性的父亲有两个或更多的母亲，这一比例是普通人口的两倍。现行政策，如促进健康婚姻和负责任的父亲以及为贫困家庭提供临时援助为人父、婚姻和家庭创新，以及2005年的《减赤法案》，旨在促进非居民父亲的参与和发展双亲家庭，但未能解决父亲参与不同母亲子女的男性家庭的挑战和复杂性。这些父亲面临的挑战是，与有孩子的单亲母亲和跨多个家庭养育孩子的男性相比，他们与孩子的参与较少。父亲参与的类型和数量在不同的兄弟姐妹中可能不同，并可能对孩子的结果和兄弟姐妹关系产生长期影响。通过从10-15个网络的多个角度进行深入的个人访谈，可以更全面地了解成功的父亲参与，这些人塑造了他的父亲角色。每个网络至少将包括：父亲、其子女的两名母亲/主要照顾者和一名由父亲指定的对其父亲角色产生负面或积极影响的人。只要可能，父亲和母亲的浪漫伴侣、祖父母和外祖父母以及最多三个影响他父亲角色的人也将包括在内。最终产品将是一种文化上适当的描述，解决低收入非裔美国人父亲面临的独特挑战，这些父亲的母亲不同，并可以改善父亲的参与，从而增强积极的儿童结果，告知实践者这些父亲需要更大的时间灵活性，并改善未来对这些父亲的研究。今后的方向包括确定父亲对儿童结果的独特贡献，这些贡献可被用来更好地理解任何种族/族裔或经济群体的父亲角色。这项研究的具体目的是为低收入的非裔美国人父亲与不同母亲的孩子的网络确定：对成功的父亲参与的理论解释；2.促进或抑制成功的父亲参与的网络和背景因素；以及3.父亲与每个孩子的参与的差异可能导致孩子结果的差异。