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Carlson, Marcia J. – Journal of Marriage and Family, 2006
Research has shown that living away from one's biological father is associated with a greater risk of adverse child and adolescent outcomes; yet, the role of the father-child relationship in understanding this association has not been directly investigated. This study uses data on biological fathers' relationships with their children from the 1979…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Family Structure, Fatherless Family, Adolescents
Grogger, Jeff; Ronan, Nick – 1995
The effects of fatherlessness on children's educational attainment and entry-level wages were examined through a method-of-moments analysis of data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY), a national panel study of 12,686 youths who were aged 14-22 in 1979. Two special features of the NLSY were used: its subsample of siblings and its…
Descriptors: Blacks, Comparative Analysis, Educational Attainment, Employment Patterns