A framework for studying minority youths' transitions to fatherhood: the case of Puerto Rican adolescents.
A theoretical framework is proposed for studying minority young men's involvement with their babies that combines the integrative model of minority youth development and a life course developmental perspective with Lamb's revised four-factor model of father involvement. This framework posits a relationship between demographic and family background variables (such as education, employment, income, and family of origin) and fatherhood outcomes moderated by personal characteristics (such as sex-role ideology, acculturation, risk taking, and alienation) and mediated by definitions of fatherhood, life priorities normative for the culture under study, and sexual behavior. Once there is an acknowledged infant, a father's involvement is influenced by child characteristics, perceived fathering competence, social support, and quality of the relationship with the mother.
Center for Research on Women, Wellesley College, 106 Central Street, Wellesley, Massachusetts 02481, USA. serkut@wellesley.edu
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D000069:Acculturation; D000293:Adolescent; D041923:Adolescent Development; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005219:Father-Child Relations / Q000208:ethnology*; D005220:Fathers / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D008913:Minority Groups / Q000523:psychology*; D009679:Nuclear Family / Q000208:ethnology; D016487:Parenting / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000523:psychology; D011247:Pregnancy; D011253:Pregnancy in Adolescence / Q000208:ethnology*; D011287:Prejudice; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent; D011647:Puerto Rico / Q000208:ethnology; D012922:Social Change; D012944:Social Support; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors