As rates of divorce and nonmarital childbearing have increased in recent decades, the percentage of children and fathers who live apart from one another has also increased. Yet our knowledge of how father involvement affects children's well-being in these situations is quite limited, since most research on fathers and children has focused on…

Discussed the home environments of drug users vs. non-drug users and considered the influence of the father upon adolescent social attitudes. (RK)

An investigation of the literature was made to define their unique needs and problems and to determine what counseling and educational services are available for them. The literature revealed less attention to the specific needs of women who are single parents than to the overall general needs of women. (Author)

Comparison of household structures and living arrangements among Black, Hispanic, and White families indicated that both economic factors and cultural variables influenced the formation of extended households. Families with single female heads, which were hypothesized to be most closely associated with economic disadvantage, were most likely to be…

Research among Black adolescent boys found that: (1) those whose fathers were present in the home had higher and more positive self-concepts than those whose fathers were absent; and (2) self-concept and grade point average were significantly related for the father-present group. (Author/MJL)

Problems faced by the female single parent in her private life and in her life as a university student are explored. Practical solutions to some of these problems are discussed, and suggestions made as to how the university may be more supportive to these students. (Author)

Parents from families broken by divorce were more negatively evaluated than were parents from either intact families or families where the father had died. These findings held regardless of whether or not the mother had remarried and regardless of the sex of students doing the evaluations. (Author)

Results of this study indicate that male teachers had no significant effect upon the academic achievement of father-absent sixth-grade boys. (JMF)

Used data from a longitudinal study of 16-year-old girls to test predictions about psychosocial factors in the onset of menarche. Found that family conflict and father's absence in childhood predicted an earlier age of menarche, and these factors in combination with weight showed some evidence of an additive influence on menarche. (Author/GLR)

Used data from nationally representative sample (n=2,528) to examine division of household labor in first-marriage families, stepfamilies, families headed by divorced mothers, and families headed by never-married mothers. Findings indicated that, across family types and regardless of women's employment status, women performed two to three times…

The intent of this study was to investigate cognitive performance among Head Start children and to draw implications from such performance to increase understanding of the educational needs of Head Start children from families headed by unwed-mothers. Specific questions addressed whether cognitive performance among Head Start children differed on…

Investigates how structural circumstances condition the meaning of the father-son connection and the effects of father-absence: examining a sample of white and black adolescents, the research sought father-present/father-absent differences in personal identity and orientation toward the conventional success goals of early adulthood. (Author/JM)

As family structures have shifted to include a high proportion of single parent households, more attention has been directed toward the characteristics of both the maternal and paternal roles. A study was conducted to identify the nurturing qualities of parenthood in a sample of 51 presently unmarried, noncustodial fathers, and to determine the…