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: 8104796
• 负责人: CONSTANCE Miles DALLAS
• 金额: $ 65.79万
• 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/8104796
• 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. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The purpose of this qualitative research study is to develop an explanation of successful father involvement for low-income African American fathers who have children with different mothers. We hope to understand more about how these fathers successfully maintain contact with their children and what types of things influence their ability to stay involved. We will interview 10-15 sets of father networks. Each network will include a father and persons who help shape his fatherhood role. The knowledge from this research study can improve father involvement for these families to enhance the well-being of their children.

描述（由申请人提供）：本扎根理论研究的目的是为拥有不同母亲的孩子的低收入非洲裔美国父亲提供成功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，但不少于一个月一次。大约四分之一到三分之一的非裔美国男性有两个或两个以上的母亲，这个比例是普通人群的两倍。现有政策，如《促进健康婚姻和负责任父亲》、《贫困家庭临时援助父亲》、《婚姻和家庭创新》以及《2005年赤字削减法》，旨在促进非居住父亲的参与和发展双亲家庭，但未能解决父亲参与与不同母亲生育子女的男性家庭的挑战和复杂性。这些父亲面临的挑战是，与那些单亲母亲和多个家庭养育孩子的男性相比，他们对孩子的投入更少。父亲参与的类型和数量可能因兄弟姐妹而异，并可能对孩子的成长和兄弟姐妹关系产生长期影响。通过从10-15个网络（塑造父亲角色的人）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。每个网络至少包括：父亲、两名母亲/子女的主要照顾者和父亲指定的一名消极或积极影响其父亲角色的人。在可能的情况下，父亲和母亲的浪漫伴侣、父亲和外祖父母以及最多三个影响其父亲角色的人也将包括在内。最终的结果将是一个文化上适当的描述，解决了低收入的非洲裔美国父亲与不同母亲的孩子所面临的独特挑战，并可以改善父亲的参与，从而增强积极的孩子结果，告知从业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。未来的方向包括确定父亲对儿童结局的独特贡献，可以用来更好地理解任何种族/民族或经济群体的父亲角色。本研究的具体目的是确定，对于低收入，非裔美国父亲的网络有不同的母亲：成功的父亲参与的理论解释；2. 促进或抑制成功父亲参与的网络和环境因素；和3。父亲对每个孩子参与程度的不同可能会导致孩子的结果不同。