The effects of non-residential fathers on family environmental risks among court-involved male adolescents
Year: 2008
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Despite the fact that there is growing evidence regarding a connection between nonresidential fathers and juvenile delinquency (Coley & Medeiros, 2007;Harper & McLanahan, 2004), researchers have made little effort to identify family environmental risks that juvenile delinquents experience without a father present.The purpose of this study is to examine family environmental risks of households with residential fathers and without residential fathers among juvenile delinquents and compare the levels of family related risks according to ethnicity (i.e., African-American and Caucasian male adolescents).Family environmental risk factors identified include economic hardship, parenting problems, and family conflict.To determine the comparability of the groups, a 2 (father's resident status: residential father and non-residential father) X 2 (ethnicity: African-American and Caucasian) MANOVA was performed with scores of family environmental risk indicators.Results of the two-way MANOVA revealed significant multivariate effects for ethnicity and father's resident status; however, there was no interaction effect.
Author: Jeffrey Herron
Institution: Miami University
Language: English
Subfield: Demography
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1929186471