Father residence and father-child relationship quality: Peer relationships and externalizing behavioral problems

Cabrera, Natasha; Cook, G. A.; McFadden, Karen E.; Bradley, Robert H.

doi:10.1080/19424620.2011.639143

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“…Moreover, Latino fathers may have influence on their children's peer relationships. In our study of 508 low‐income fifth graders, children who claimed close relationships with their fathers were more likely to report positive peer relationships (Cabrera et al., ). In a study involving 220 Mexican American adolescents, fathers' involvement in adolescents' peer relationships was linked to the adolescents' deviant peer affiliations (Updegraff et al., ).…”

Section: Fathers' Influence On Children's Developmentmentioning

confidence: 75%

Latino Fathers and Their Children

Cabrera

Bradley

2012

Child Dev Perspectives

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This article examines Latino fathers and their influence on child well‐being in light of recent demographic, cultural, and social shifts. Through use of a heuristic model of father involvement, this study found great heterogeneity in the way Latino fathers are engaged with their offspring and at least suggests an emerging hybrid that blends traditional with more modern views of parenting. Findings imply that a father's personal characteristics and experiences (such as cultural values and beliefs, immigration experience, motivation to parent, and financial, social, and human capital) and quality of his relationships (coparenting and couple) are important correlates of involvement with his children. There appear to be multiple mechanisms linking aspects of paternal involvement to child outcomes, including the quality of the mother–father and parent–child relationship and the father's own interactions (language input, supportiveness) with the child. These findings are considered in the context of methodological, conceptual, and measurement challenges that future studies should address.

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Latino Fathers and Their Children

Cabrera

Bradley

2012

Child Dev Perspectives

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“…Fathers' social class-their education and income-is associated uniquely and directly with paternal sensitivity during interactions as well as with measures of children's cognitive and language abilities, suggesting that fathers with more education have children who have greater scores on such tests (2,5,19,28). Additionally, across socioeconomic status, race, and ethnicity, sensitive and supportive fathers have children who are socially competent and have positive friendships in school settings (29,30), and who engage in more complex play and have more optimal language outcomes (31, 32). Depending on fathers' level of involvement, they can affect children's development positively even when they do not live with them (1).…”

Section: How Do Fathers Matter For Children?mentioning

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Fathers Are Parents, Too! Widening the Lens on Parenting for Children's Development

Cabrera

Volling

Barr

2018

Child Dev Perspectives

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Why do fathers matter? Recent conceptual and theoretical advances regarding father–child relationships have demonstrated that fathers affect children's outcomes both directly and indirectly. To attain a complete developmental account of the ecologically rich contexts of child development, in this article, we recommend best practices regarding the conceptualization and assessment of father–child relationships that reflect contemporary family life. We also discuss conceptual and measurement issues pertaining to father–child relationships in different family configurations, including those with resident and nonresident fathers. We conclude with recommendations that can help developmental researchers advance our understanding of fathering, parenting, and children's development.

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“…Although the vast majority of attachment research is based on mother–infant relationships, attachments also are formed between fathers and infants, as are early mental representations of fathers (Lamb, ; McMahon, ). Emotion regulation during infancy and early childhood is strengthened by stable father presence in the home (Bocknek, Brophy‐Herb, Fitzgerald, Schiffman, & Vogel, ; Cabrera et al., ), routine active play (Bocknek, Dayton, Raveau, Richardson, Brophy‐Herb, & Fitzgerald, ), and emotional availability (Volling, McElwain, Notaro, & Herrera, ). However, a continued open question concerns what characteristics of father parenting contribute uniquely to child development (Cabrera & Tamis‐LeMonda, ), and how they should be assessed (Roggman, Fitzgerald, Bradley, & Raikes, ).…”

Section: Relational Developmental Metatheory and The Early‐in‐life Ormentioning

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The early biopsychosocial development of boys and the origins of violence in males

Golding¹,

Fitzgerald

2019

Infant Mental Health Journal

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We apply a biopsychosocial approach to introduce early‐in‐life experiences that explain a significant part of the male preponderance in the perpetration of violence. Early caregiver abuse and neglect, father absence, and exposure to family and neighborhood violence exacerbate boys’ greater risk for aggressive behavior and increase the probability of carrying out violent acts later in life. We examine the development of the psychological self and explore conditions that encourage physical aggression, focusing on the impact on the infant and toddler's emergent mental representation of self, others, and self–other relationships. Boys’ slower developmental timetable in the first years of life may enhance their vulnerability for disorganization in emergent neurobiological networks mediating organization of socioemotional relationships. Emergent attachment and activation relationship systems may differentially affect risk and resilience in boys and girls, particularly in single‐parent families. Evidence has suggested that the dramatic increase in single‐parent families is especially linked to corresponding increases in behavioral undercontrol, antisocial behavior, and the emergence of violence in boys.

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Father residence and father-child relationship quality: Peer relationships and externalizing behavioral problems

Cited by 55 publications

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Latino Fathers and Their Children

Latino Fathers and Their Children

Fathers Are Parents, Too! Widening the Lens on Parenting for Children's Development

The early biopsychosocial development of boys and the origins of violence in males

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