Hispanic/Latino Fathers and Children's Literacy Development: Examining Involvement Practices From a Sociocultural Context

Ortiz, Robert W.

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“…Results of previous studies that were cited showed that fathers felt that they had an important role to play in their children's educational development and that both parents should be involved (Ortiz 2004). The results of the present study supported the idea that fathers, like mothers, can be responsible for the development of their children's literacy and writing skills.…”

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confidence: 86%

“…For one thing, it involved fathers in school activities relating to their young children's acquisition of literacy. Parent involvement is an important goal of early childhood education programs, but parents often mean mothers (Ortiz 2004). Too often fathers do not respond to the activities presented by their female teachers and teachers are encouraged to seek new ways to involve fathers (Frieman and Berkeley 2002).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…They monitored their children's progress and participated in book reading. The study by Ortiz (2004) also provided evidence of paternal involvement and the themes that drove these practices. In addition, Hiebert and Adams (1987) found that fathers' responses had an impact on their young children's knowledge of literacy.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 90%

“…The limited studies examining the role of fathers in children's literacy development have suggested that paternal early literacy activities ranged from fathers who rarely read with their children to those who established consistent reading and writing routines (Ortiz 1994(Ortiz , 2004. Karther (2002) found that fathers in her study valued literacy learning.…”

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confidence: 98%

“…This has led educators to view the family and community as vehicles to improve young children's school achievement, including their literacy development. There currently exists a considerable body of research literature on the effects of literacy interventions with mothers of young children (i.e., Ortiz 1994Ortiz , 2004, but studies of literacy programs for fathers have been neglected. Fathers assume important roles in families, which affect young children's lives.…”

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confidence: 99%

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A case study approach was used to document the literacy experiences of 25 fathers and their children who participated in a family literacy program. It explored the effects of a literacy intervention that was designed to assist fathers of five-year-old children to develop their children's literacy learning in a family environment. The findings indicated that the fathers promoted their children's literacy development when they learned literacy strategies and activities in the program. Although all fathers were provided with the same literacy content, they differed in their use of literacy strategies. Themes were identified and described based on the literacy strategies, interactions, materials, and activities that the fathers used.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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confidence: 98%

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Infant biological sensitivity to father engagement in low‐income Mexican American families

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Somers

Roubinov

2020

Developmental Psychobiology

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Despite a sizeable literature documenting meaningful contributions of father involvement to child health and development, researchers have paid little attention to biological characteristics that may render a child more or less sensitive to fathering behavior. The identification of child and paternal characteristics that promote child behavioral health is particularly critical in the context of sociocultural risk. We hypothesized that respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) measured during infancy would moderate the impact of father engagement in caregiving activities on child behavioral health. In a sample of 181 Mexican American families, we evaluated the impact of infant RSA at 6 weeks, mother‐ and father‐reported father engagement in caregiving activities at 15 and 21 weeks, and their interaction on toddler social or emotional behavior problems and competence at 2 years of age. Only infants with average or higher RSA exhibited more behavior problems in the context of low father engagement (p = .021). Neither RSA nor father engagement predicted behavioral competence. The results are consistent with a stress‐diathesis process such that higher infant RSA increases vulnerability to suboptimal father involvement, but does not enhance the benefits of high father involvement.

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Latino immigrant parents’ financial stress, depression, and academic involvement predicting child academic success

Gilbert

Brown

Mistry

2017

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The current study examines Mexican-heritage immigrant parents' financial stress, English language fluency, and depressive symptoms as risk factors for parental academic involvement and child academic outcomes. Participants were 68 Latino immigrant (from Mexico) third and fourth graders and their parents. Results from a structural equation model analysis indicated that Latino parents who reported greater financial stress also reported higher levels of depressive symptoms; this, in turn, was related to lower parent-reported levels of engagement in the monitoring and transmission of implicit and explicit valuing of academics. Parental monitoring of academics was positively associated with children's success in mathematics and transmission of implicit and explicit valuing of academics was positively associated with children's success in language arts. The current study extends support for the Family Economic Stress Model by demonstrating connections between parental stress, emotional wellbeing, and child academic outcomes, through parental involvement in children's academics in a Latino-heritage sample.

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Hispanic/Latino Fathers and Children's Literacy Development: Examining Involvement Practices From a Sociocultural Context

Cited by 50 publications

References 25 publications

A Literacy Program for Fathers: A Case Study

A Literacy Program for Fathers: A Case Study

Infant biological sensitivity to father engagement in low‐income Mexican American families

Latino immigrant parents’ financial stress, depression, and academic involvement predicting child academic success

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