Trajectories and Consequences of Nonmarital Fathering

非婚父亲的轨迹和后果

• 批准号: 7920001
• 负责人: Marcia Jeanne Carlson
• 金额: $ 15.62万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-09-30 至 2013-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7920001
• 关键词: Affect; African American; Behavior; Biological; Birth; Characteristics; Child; Child Development; Data; Data Set; Demography; Development; Drug usage; Economics; Emotions; Employment; Family; Fathers; Fertility; Generations; Growth; Hispanics; Imprisonment; Individual; Inequality; Investments; Knowledge; Life; Life Cycle Stages; Light; Link; Longitudinal Surveys; Marriage; Mental Depression; Mothers; Multiple Partners; Nature; Outcome; Parenting behavior; Parents; Pattern; Policies; Problem behavior; Process; Provider; Race; Reporting; Research; Resources; Role; Schools; Socialization; Staging; Surveys; Systems Theory; Techniques; Time; Unmarried; Unmarried Father; Woman; Youth; child bearing; design; ethnic difference; father role; fatherhood; human capital; male; men; nonmarital childbearing; partner violence; programs; racial and ethnic; research study; social; sound

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The overall aim of this project is to investigate the factors associated with men becoming unwed fathers and the nature and consequences of unmarried fathers' involvement with children. This is an important topic, given the large and growing number of men who will have at least one child outside of marriage and the large fraction of children and mothers who will be exposed to their fathering behavior. Yet, our knowledge about nonmarital fathering and how it affects partners, children, and the fathers themselves remains limited, in part because men are often under-represented in national surveys. Fathers represent an important resource for children, ideally investing the time, money and emotion that promote healthy child development and socialization, but unwed fathers often have individual and contextual characteristics that deter and complicate their potential for positive involvement in family life; these include low human capital, high rates of social-behavioral problems, and a high likelihood of living away from their child, as well as three important but little explored factors related to nonmarital fathering fathers' ongoing relationships with mothers (whether romantic and/or co-parenting), the fact that unmarried men (and women) often have children by multiple partners (so-called `multi-partnered fertility'), and the fact that a non-trivial number of unwed fathers have been or will be incarcerated. Using three national datasets (the National Survey of Family Growth, the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979, and the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study), this research will provide new information about the trajectories and consequences of recent and contemporary nonmarital fathering. The study includes three specific aims: 1) To evaluate the antecedents of nonmarital fatherhood and the effects of becoming an unwed father on the male life course; 2) To analyze the nature and dynamics of unwed fathers' involvement in families as partners and parents, especially as linked to relationships with mothers, multi-partnered fertility, and paternal incarceration; and 3) To examine the consequences of unmarried fathers' involvement for the wellbeing of children and of fathers themselves, including whether the benefits are moderated by fathers' characteristics or context. Using a life course perspective and drawing on family systems theory, this project will evaluate key stages and turning points in men becoming and then being unmarried fathers, including factors that both enhance and deter positive parenting over time. The study will explore race/ethnic differences in unwed fathering and consider key analytic challenges related to social selection and missing data. Overall, this study will provide new information about the process, content, and consequences of nonmarital fathering for children and families and may shed light on the development of sound policies and programs to strengthen families. PUBLIC HELATH RELEVANCE This study will provide new information about the factors associated with men becoming unwed fathers and the nature and consequences of unmarried fathers' involvement with children. Given the rising fraction of births that occur outside of marriage and the negative consequences of father absence for children, this study will provide information to aid the development of sound policies and programs to keep fathers connected to children and to strengthen families across diverse contexts.

描述（由申请人提供）：该项目的总体目的是调查与男性成为未婚父亲有关的因素以及未婚父亲与孩子的性质和后果。鉴于越来越多的男人将在婚姻之外至少有一个孩子，而大量的孩子和母亲将受到父亲行为的影响，这是一个重要的话题。然而，我们对非婚姻父亲的了解及其如何影响伴侣，孩子和父亲本身仍然有限，部分原因是男人在国家调查中经常不足。父亲代表着儿童的重要资源，理想地投入了促进健康的儿童发展和社会化的时间，金钱和情感，但是未婚父亲通常具有个人和背景特征，以阻止和复杂他们在家庭生活中积极参与的潜力；这些包括人力资本低，社交行为问题的高率以及远离孩子的生活可能性很高，以及三个重要但很少的探索因素与非婚姻父亲的父亲与母亲的持续关系（无论是浪漫和/或共同养育）（无论是浪漫和/或共同养育），无论是未婚的男人（和妇女）经常有多个派对的事实（多人伴侣），这一事实是众多的伙伴，并且是众所周知的``多人''非平凡的未婚父亲已被监禁或将被监禁。这项研究将使用三个国家数据集（全国家庭增长，全国对青年的纵向调查以及脆弱的家庭和儿童健康研究），这项研究将提供有关最近和当代非婚姻父亲的轨迹和后果的新信息。该研究包括三个具体目标：1）评估非婚姻父亲的先例以及成为未婚父亲在男性生活过程中的影响； 2）分析未婚父亲作为伴侣和父母的家庭参与的性质和动态，尤其是与与母亲的关系，多伴侣的生育能力和父亲的监禁有关； 3）检查未婚父亲参与子女和父亲自己的福祉的后果，包括父亲的特征或背景是否受益。该项目利用生活课程的观点和借鉴家庭系统理论，评估男性成为未婚父亲的关键阶段和转折点，包括随着时间的推移增强和阻止积极育儿的因素。该研究将探索未婚父亲的种族/种族差异，并考虑与社会选择和缺失数据有关的关键分析挑战。总体而言，这项研究将提供有关儿童和家庭非婚姻父亲的过程，内容和后果的新信息，并可能会阐明制定合理的政策和计划以加强家庭。公共Helath相关性本研究将提供有关男性成为未婚父亲以及未婚父亲与孩子的性质和后果相关的因素的新信息。鉴于婚姻以外发生的出生和父亲缺席的负面后果的增加，这项研究将提供信息，以帮助制定合理的政策和计划，以使父亲与儿童联系并加强各种环境中的家庭。