A number of studies have demonstrated the single parenting, especially among mother with limited access to social and financial support, is associated with parents stress, stemming in part from singlehanded negotiation of heavy parenting responsibilities (Brooks-Gunn & Duncan, 1997; Lamb, 1997; McLoyd, 1990); and that poverty diminishes the quality of parenting due to persistent daily stressors (Lamb, 1997; McLoyd, 1990). These problems can also cause a negative effect on young African American children, including more behavior problems as they begin elementary school and can potentially persist as they children get older (Ackerman, Brown, & Izard, 2003). Many researcher have given their theoretical theories on the social development of young
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In 2006, King and Sobolewski conducted a study on nonresident fathers’ contributions to adolescent well-being. Before conducting this study they stated that prior research done in this area has had one or more significant weaknesses that have limited their understanding. For example, small and unrepresentative samples (Simons, Whitbeck, Beaman, & Conger, 1994), failure to simultaneously consider the role of the mother-child relationship (King, 1994), failure to consider whether the effects of nonresident father involvement are the same for different groups of children (Stewart, 2003), and the exclusion of children who have little or no contact with their fathers (Simons et al., 1994). King & Sobolewski’s aim for this study was to assess how multiple dimensions of nonresident father involvement are associated with different dimensions of adolescent well-being by addressing each of the above limitations. They wanted to pay close attention to the quality of father-child relationship that recent research indicates may have great benefits for child well-being (Amato & Gilbreth, …show more content…
From this they proposed a questions, do all children appear to benefit equally from having high-quality ties to nonresident father, or do some children appear to benefit more than others? Finally, we have a study done in 2015 by Jackson, Choi, and Preston on the nonresident fathers’ involvement with young African American children. In this study they examined longitudinally the influences of nonresident fathers’ involvement with three year old African American children on single mothers’ parenting adequacy and children’s socioemotional development as they prepare to enter elementary school. In their study the examined prier research were some have found no relationship between the extent of the father-child contact and child well-being (Amato & Gilbreth, 1999; Amato & Meyers, 2009; Furstenberg, Morgan, & Allison, 1987). But, those researches were based on the effect of father absent due to divorce in middle-class white families, and those families may be different in important ways from economically disadvantaged African American families headed by single never married
In 2006, King and Sobolewski conducted a study on nonresident fathers’ contributions to adolescent well-being. Before conducting this study they stated that prior research done in this area has had one or more significant weaknesses that have limited their understanding. For example, small and unrepresentative samples (Simons, Whitbeck, Beaman, & Conger, 1994), failure to simultaneously consider the role of the mother-child relationship (King, 1994), failure to consider whether the effects of nonresident father involvement are the same for different groups of children (Stewart, 2003), and the exclusion of children who have little or no contact with their fathers (Simons et al., 1994). King & Sobolewski’s aim for this study was to assess how multiple dimensions of nonresident father involvement are associated with different dimensions of adolescent well-being by addressing each of the above limitations. They wanted to pay close attention to the quality of father-child relationship that recent research indicates may have great benefits for child well-being (Amato & Gilbreth, …show more content…
From this they proposed a questions, do all children appear to benefit equally from having high-quality ties to nonresident father, or do some children appear to benefit more than others? Finally, we have a study done in 2015 by Jackson, Choi, and Preston on the nonresident fathers’ involvement with young African American children. In this study they examined longitudinally the influences of nonresident fathers’ involvement with three year old African American children on single mothers’ parenting adequacy and children’s socioemotional development as they prepare to enter elementary school. In their study the examined prier research were some have found no relationship between the extent of the father-child contact and child well-being (Amato & Gilbreth, 1999; Amato & Meyers, 2009; Furstenberg, Morgan, & Allison, 1987). But, those researches were based on the effect of father absent due to divorce in middle-class white families, and those families may be different in important ways from economically disadvantaged African American families headed by single never married