TY - JOUR
T1 - Racial and Ethnic Differences in Teenage Fathers’ Early Risk Factors and Socioeconomic Outcomes Later in Life
AU - Assini-Meytin, Luciana C.
AU - Garza, Mary A.
AU - Green, Kerry M.
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgements This research uses data from Add Health, a program Project directed by Kathleen Mul-lan Harris and designed by J. Richard Udry, Peter S. Bearman, and Kathleen Mullan Harris at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and funded by Grant P01-HD31921 from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, with cooperative funding from 23 other federal agencies and foundations. Special acknowledgment is due Ronald R. Rindfuss and Barbara Entwisle for assistance in the original design. We also gratefully acknowledge support from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Center for Child Health and Human Development Grant R24-HD041041, Maryland Population Research Center. No direct support was received from Grants P01-HD31921 and R24-HD041041 for this analysis. This research was conducted at the University of Maryland, College Park, as part of the first author’s doctoral dissertation.
Funding Information:
This research uses data from Add Health, a program Project directed by Kathleen Mullan Harris and designed by J. Richard Udry, Peter S. Bearman, and Kathleen Mullan Harris at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and funded by Grant P01-HD31921 from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, with cooperative funding from 23 other federal agencies and foundations. Special acknowledgment is due Ronald R. Rindfuss and Barbara Entwisle for assistance in the original design. We also gratefully acknowledge support from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Center for Child Health and Human Development Grant R24-HD041041, Maryland Population Research Center. No direct support was received from Grants P01-HD31921 and R24-HD041041 for this analysis. This research was conducted at the University of Maryland, College Park, as part of the first author?s doctoral dissertation.
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PY - 2019/6/15
Y1 - 2019/6/15
N2 - Background: Understanding racial differences in teenage fathers’ early risk factors and later outcomes is critical to inform programs for teenage fathers as our knowledge base on this population remains limited. Objective: The goal of this study was to assess how teen fathers’ characteristics, including family background, delinquency, living arrangements, socioeconomic resources, and arrests, vary over time by race and ethnicity. Method: We analyzed National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health data. The analytic sample consisted of self-identified African American, Latino, and White males who fathered a child before the age of 20 (n = 313). Data come from three time points: adolescence, transition to adulthood, and young adulthood. Results: Latino teen fathers came from families with lower educational attainment and greater reliance on public assistance. No statistically significant differences by race and ethnicity were found in parental involvement, school connectedness, marijuana use, and delinquency during adolescence. By their early 20s, a lower proportion of African American teen fathers were married compared to White and Latino teen fathers. By young adulthood, adjusted regression analyses showed that African American teen fathers were more likely to be arrested and earned a lower mean income than White teen fathers. Conclusions: Findings suggest that African American teen fathers, while no more disadvantaged or delinquent than the other two groups in their adolescence, experience greater accumulation of disadvantages over the life course. Intervention programs must consider the broader social and institutional context that may contribute to the disproportionate disadvantage among African American teen fathers in their young adulthood.
AB - Background: Understanding racial differences in teenage fathers’ early risk factors and later outcomes is critical to inform programs for teenage fathers as our knowledge base on this population remains limited. Objective: The goal of this study was to assess how teen fathers’ characteristics, including family background, delinquency, living arrangements, socioeconomic resources, and arrests, vary over time by race and ethnicity. Method: We analyzed National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health data. The analytic sample consisted of self-identified African American, Latino, and White males who fathered a child before the age of 20 (n = 313). Data come from three time points: adolescence, transition to adulthood, and young adulthood. Results: Latino teen fathers came from families with lower educational attainment and greater reliance on public assistance. No statistically significant differences by race and ethnicity were found in parental involvement, school connectedness, marijuana use, and delinquency during adolescence. By their early 20s, a lower proportion of African American teen fathers were married compared to White and Latino teen fathers. By young adulthood, adjusted regression analyses showed that African American teen fathers were more likely to be arrested and earned a lower mean income than White teen fathers. Conclusions: Findings suggest that African American teen fathers, while no more disadvantaged or delinquent than the other two groups in their adolescence, experience greater accumulation of disadvantages over the life course. Intervention programs must consider the broader social and institutional context that may contribute to the disproportionate disadvantage among African American teen fathers in their young adulthood.
KW - Longitudinal analysis
KW - Racial and ethnic differences
KW - Teen fathers
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U2 - 10.1007/s10566-018-9483-9
DO - 10.1007/s10566-018-9483-9
M3 - Article
C2 - 31413536
AN - SCOPUS:85058401166
SN - 1053-1890
VL - 48
SP - 361
EP - 376
JO - Child and Youth Care Forum
JF - Child and Youth Care Forum
IS - 3
ER -