Family Structure, Family Processes, and Adolescent Delinquency: The Significance of Parental Absence versus Parental Gender

Autor/inn/en	Demuth, Stephen; Brown, Susan L.
Titel	Family Structure, Family Processes, and Adolescent Delinquency: The Significance of Parental Absence versus Parental Gender
Quelle	In: Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 41 (2004) 1, S.58-81 (24 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-4278
DOI	10.1177/0022427803256236
Schlagwörter	Delinquency; Mothers; One Parent Family; Adolescents; Fathers; Family Structure; Family Environment; Racial Differences; Gender Differences; Age Differences; Parent Influence; Educational Attainment; Family Income; Parenting Styles + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Kriminalität; Mother; Mutter; Single parent family; Ein-Eltern-Familie; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Familienkonstellation; Familiensystem; Familienmilieu; Rassenunterschied; Geschlechterkonflikt; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Familieneinkommen
Abstract	One third of all children are born to unmarried mothers and over one half of children will spend some time in a single-parent family. In fact, single-father families are the fastest growing family form. Using data from the 1995 National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health, the authors extend prior research that has investigated the effects of growing up in a two-parent versus single-mother family by examining adolescent delinquency in single-father families, too. This strategy helps us to identify the mechanisms through which living with a single parent increases delinquency, notably, whether the effect is predominantly a function of parental absence (i.e., one versus two parents) or parental gender (i.e., single mother versus single father). The results indicate that adolescents in single-parent families are significantly more delinquent than their counterparts residing with two biological, married parents, although these differences are reduced once the authors account for various family processes. Furthermore, family processes fully account for the higher levels of delinquency exhibited by adolescents from single-father versus single-mother families. (Contains 5 tables and 2 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10