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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"African American Fathers"”.
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Link Between Adverse Childhood Experiences and Parenting Styles of African American Fathers
<p>African American fathers may be more susceptible than fathers of other races to having a negative parenting style due to their high levels of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). ACEs are traumatic experiences during childhood that can affect a person’s mental and physical health, income and …
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Toward A Greater Understanding of Fathering: Five African American Fathers' Experiences Parenting Their Children With Chronic Illnesses
Five African American fathers participated in a qualitative study that examined how fathers experience their children who live with chronic illnesses. The examination of their strengths and resiliencies revealed 10 factors that enhanced involvement and were incorporated into fathers' overall …
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Understanding the Process of Sexual Health Communication Between African American Fathers and Their Daughters: A Multi Analytic Method Qualitative Study
African American youth and young adults living in the United States are disproportionately burdened by HIV/AIDS, and when compared to women of other races and ethnicities, African American women have the highest rate of chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis. Although sexual health communication is a …
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The Influence of Black African American Fathers’ Parenting Styles on Young Adult Children’s Attachment Styles: the Roles of Gender and Fathers’ Residence
<p>Parenting</p> <p>Black African American (BAA) fathers in the United States are frequently mischaracterized as absent or uninvolved, reinforcing deficit-based narratives rooted in historical and systemic racism. Such portrayals obscure the meaningful and sustained roles many BAA fathers play in …
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'Being on Top of It:' A Qualitative Examination of the Processes and Contexts Shaping Pediatric Caregiving among Low-Income, Young, African-American Fathers.
… a growing interest in the impact of adolescent fathers' characteristics and involvement on children's outcomes (Black, Dubowitz, & Starr, 1999; Fletcher & Wolfe, 2011). Few studies of public health or pediatric outcomes, however, have examined how fathers provide and shape healthcare for their …
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African American Father-Child Reproductive Health Communication
African-American children have their sexual debut (first voluntary penile-vaginal penetration) earlier thus are at disproportionately greater risk for more sexual partners and sexually transmitted infections. Father-child reproductive health communication was found to influence the timing of sex in …
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Dads matter: Examining paternal involvement as a predictive factor in healthy birth outcomes in African American families
… of this dissertation is to examine the role African American fathers' play in healthy birth outcomes and explore the role of residential status on paternal involvement. The analyses are based on data from the Fragile Families and Child Well-being Study and focus groups with recent and …
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Defining Fatherhood for Non-Residential African American Men: A Phenomenological Approach
… by a sampling pool of middle-class European Americans. The purpose of this study was to examine parenting practices of non-residential African American fathers residing in the Midwest. I explored how these men defined what it meant to be a father and their perceptions of the influences on …