Journal
JOURNAL OF MARRIAGE AND FAMILY
Volume 77, Issue 3, Pages 647-661Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/jomf.12193
Keywords
African Americans; early childhood; father-child relations
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- Maternal and Child Health Bureau Research Program, Health Resources and Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services [R40 MC 00203]
- Irving Harris Foundation
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The birth of a child represents a unique window of opportunity to understand and support ongoing father involvement among low-income unmarried parents. Using data collected as part of a randomized controlled trial of a community-based home visiting intervention provided to 248 low-income African American women, a propensity score matching approach was used to estimate the effect of fathers' presence at birth on multiple measures of later father involvement over the first 2 years postpartum. The results indicated that participation in child care activities is the only form of involvement predicted by presence at birth at 4 months, and none of the forms of father involvement measured were predicted at 12 months; however, presence at birth was predictive of all 7 indicators of involvement at 24 months. Engaging fathers in the birth experience may represent an important opportunity to provide services.
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