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Shared Parenting Research
Connecticut’s Marsha Kline Pruett, a psychologist with
extensive experience in the child custody area, wrote a book summarizing
research on shared parenting. Click here for excerpts from Your Divorce Advisor.
Here
is a summary of a recent study of Father Absence done at Princeton
University, Center for Child-Wellbeing:
“This study measures
the likelihood of incarceration among contemporary male youths from
father-absent households, using data from the National Longitudinal Survey
of Youth. Hypotheses test the contribution of socioeconomic disadvantage,
poverty, family instability, residential adults in father-absent
households, as well as selection bias. Results from longitudinal event
history analysis show that while certain unfavorable circumstances, such as
teen motherhood, low parent education, urban residence, racial inequalities
and poverty, are associated with incarceration among father-absent youths,
net of these factors, these youths still face double the odds [of
incarceration] of their peers. Nonetheless, youths from stepparent families
are even more vulnerable to the risk of incarceration, especially those in
father-stepmother households, which suggests that the re-marriage may
present even greater difficulties for male children than father absence.”
Emphasis and brackets added.
From FATHER ABSENCE AND
YOUTH INCARCERATION by Cynthia C. Harper, Ph.D. and Sara S. McLanahan,
Ph.D. Go to: 5. http://crcw.princeton.edu/workingpapers/WP99-03-Harper.pdf
Here's
what the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services has to say:
"More than a
quarter of American children—nearly 17 million—do not live with their
father. Girls without a father in their life are two and a half times as
likely to get pregnant and 53 percent more likely to commit suicide. Boys
without a father in their life are 63 percent more likely to run away and
37 percent more likely to abuse drugs. Both girls and boys are twice as
likely to drop out of high school, twice as likely to end up in jail and
nearly four times as likely to need help for emotional or behavioral
problems." -- HHS Press Release, Friday, March 26, 1999.
For
more research from Princeton’s center for Child-Wellbeing, go to: http://crcw.princeton.edu/
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