In an empirical research study Rafferty et al. (2010) investigated a culturally specific intervention created for nonresident African American fathers involved in their preadolescent sons’ life. The main participants of the investigation consisted of 287 African American father and their biologic sons ranging between ages of 8-12. The theories of reason suggest that young males who fathers were in their lives were more likely to avoid violence and aggressive behaviors; sons in the intervention would show an increase in …show more content…
The study consists of 122 males and 110 females. These individuals either resigned in a two parent home or a single parent home. The focus of this study was to examining child to parent aggression, parent to child aggression and inter-parental aggression. The study of the procedures consists of answering questions, and attending a one hour interview. Using a child behavior check list and dichotomous scores to measure aggression within families proved that boys and girls were both aggressive towards at least one of their parents. In addition to these finding, when there is neither marital nor parental aggression YPA was low however, when there is both marital nor parental aggression, YPA was