EFFECTS OF FATHER'S ABSENCE--SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC ANALYSES

本研究的主要目的是澄清 各种相关因素的独立重要性 父母分居（具体而言，父亲不在， 家庭）对随后的认知和社会情感 制定一个全国性的儿童样本， 一个具有代表性的美国母亲的国家横截面， 1986年，21至28岁。 该研究将衡量 （1）子女的年龄，当父亲 （2）离开家的时间，（3）母亲离开家的时间，（4）母亲离开家的时间。 在转型期的就业转型， (4)（5）在过渡期后的几年里， 所选亲属的存在（例如，祖父母，其他男性 成年人）在过渡期后，以及（6）父亲 探视模式和再婚对一系列测量的儿童 认知和社会情感结果。 标准多元 技术（OLS）将用于控制各种各样的 家庭、孕产妇和儿童的社会、经济、心理和 现有文献表明的生理属性可能 与婚姻破裂和各种孩子有关 结果。 该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， 幼儿家庭的家庭结构， 存在和父亲缺席的环境，并描述这些如何 随着家庭的迁移，社会经济和人口因素也会发生变化 从父亲在场到父亲缺席 这项研究将使用3,000名母亲和5,500名儿童的数据 在全国劳动力市场纵向调查中， 青年 完整的就业纵向记录， 教育、培训和家庭相关经验 妇女及其家庭可供使用，已收集在一个 1979年至1986年的基础上。 该示例包括一个 弱势白色人、黑人和西班牙裔的比例过高 妇女和儿童以及这一纵向 1979年至1986年的调查不到7%。 这项研究将能够更全面地考虑一个 当代儿童的父亲的影响 比以前更少的孩子离开家 可能 这是因为截至1986年， 没有父亲的家庭中的儿童，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 available.

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.