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Understanding Fathering and Adolescents' Wellbeing: Father Figures and Transition to Young Adulthood Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Sociology, Brown University, 2022. Also: https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:wdjqhf59/ Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Brown University Keyword(s): Cohabitation; Educational Attainment; Family Characteristics; Fathers; Fathers, Influence; Fathers, Involvement; Marital History/Transitions; Transition, Adulthood; Well-Being Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. With growing diversity in American families, more adolescents identify male figures as social fathers. Social fathers, who are neither biological fathers nor romantic partners of the biological mothers, are the male father figures who advise and mentor adolescents and provide social support and social capital. Yet, little is known about how social fathers play a role in adolescents' transition to young adulthood. Applying the life course and social capital theories, this dissertation examines the family circumstances in which social fathers emerge and explores how social fathers play a role shaping adolescents' educational attainment and union formation. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (NLSY97), I present three empirical chapters. In Chapter 1, I apply event history analysis to show under what family circumstances and for which child characteristics and situations social fathers tend to enter the picture. In Chapter 2, I use logistic regression models to study the association of father figure type and educational attainment. I find that having a social father may have the same benefits in college completion as having a present biological father. Finally, in Chapter 3, I use logistic regression models to study how father figure type might influence young adult's union formation (marriage or cohabitation). I find adolescents with a social father have greater likelihoods of marrying or cohabiting rather than remain single through their 20s than those with no father figures. This work makes an important contribution to the fields of family demography and social inequality. By considering various types of father figures, broadly defined, I aim to demonstrate how increasingly diverse fathering arrangements matter in the wellbeing of children during their transition from adolescence to young adulthood. |
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Zagame, Amanda Carol. Understanding Fathering and Adolescents' Wellbeing: Father Figures and Transition to Young Adulthood. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Sociology, Brown University, 2022.. |