Subsequent Fatherhood: Timing and Circumstances

拟议项目的具体目的是通过研究父亲的男性随后(第二胎和更高胎次)生育的时机和情况，加强我们对男性生育力的了解。我们将检查六个结果：出生的孩子的完整数量，以及近距离出生、意外出生、婚外出生、高度冲突关系中的出生以及多个伴侣的出生。拟议的项目将纳入生态和生命过程的观点，这假设随后的男性 生育行为将受到来自多个领域的因素的影响，包括个人、家庭、伴侣、子女、社区和社会政策的特征， 拟议项目的四个阶段将提供关于以下方面的重要信息：男性相对于女性的生育过程(阶段1)；影响父亲随后生育的因素，特别侧重于社会经济地位、人口和政策特征(阶段2)以及男性与其伴侣和子女的关系的作用(阶段3)；同时发生多个积极或消极的父亲的情况。 结果(阶段4)。我们建议将五个数据文件用于拟议分析的不同部分，包括全国青少年男性调查(1995年)、全国家庭成长调查(2002年)、全国青年纵向调查-1979年，脆弱家庭和儿童幸福研究的父亲调查，以及儿童早期纵向调查 研究-出生队列。分析将包括离散时间事件历史分析，以模拟向后续生育的过渡，并比较不同情况下向生育的过渡，以及Iogit和多项Iogit分析，以评估多个领域对后续父亲的不同情况的影响。分析将在关键的亚群中单独进行，包括按父亲的种族/族裔、年龄、平价、社会经济地位和历史时期进行的性别和多变量比较。研究界和政策界都将受益于旨在从男性角度扩大对家庭建设的理解的实证研究。

The specific aim of the proposed project is to enhance our understanding of male fertility, by studying the timing of nd circumstances affecting subsequent (second and higher parity) births among men who are fathers. We will examine six outcomes: the completed number of children born, as well as births that are closely-spaced, unwanted births, births outside of marriage, births in a high-conflict relationship, and births to multiple partners. The proposed project will incorporate an ecological and life-course perspective, which posits that subsequent male fertility behaviors will be influenced by factors from multiple domains, including characteristics of individuals, their families, their partners, their children, their communities, and social policies, The four stages of the proposed project will produce important information about: the process of childbearing among males compared to females (Stage 1 ); the factors influencing subsequent fertility among fathers, with a particular focus on socioeconomic status, demographic and policy characteristics (Stage 2), as well as on the role of men's relationships with their partners and children (Stage 3); and the occurrence of multiple simultaneous positive or negative fatherhood outcomes (Stage 4). We propose to use five data files for different components of the proposed analyses, including the National Survey of Adolescent Males (1995), the National Survey of Family Growth (2002), the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth-1979 sohort, the father surveys from the Fragile Family and Child Well-Being Study, and the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Birth Cohort. Analyses will include discrete-time event history analyses to model the transition to a subsequent birth and to compare the transition to births in different circumstances, as well as Iogit and multinomial Iogit analyses to assess the influence of multiple domains on the different circumstances of subsequent fatherhood. Analyses will be conducted separately among critical sub-populations, including gender and multivariate comparisons by father's race/ethnicity, age, parity, socioeconomic status, and historical time period. Both the research and policy communities will benefit from empirical research designed to expand out understanding of family building from the male perspective.