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Moore, Mignon R. |
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Socially Isolated? How Parents and Neighbourhood Adults Influence Youth Behaviour in Disadvantaged Communities Ethnic and Racial Studies 26,6 (November 2003): 988-1005. Also: http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/soc/faculty/Moore/EthnicRacial.pdf Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Taylor & Francis Keyword(s): Adolescent Sexual Activity; Age at First Intercourse; Black Family; Chicago Families in Communities Study (FIC); Family Structure; Neighborhood Effects; Parental Influences; Racial Differences; Socioeconomic Factors William Julius Wilson's model of adult joblessness, community disorganization and their effects on youth problem behaviour de-emphasizes the range in children's outcomes across socially disorganized communities, and says little about the factors that influence this variation. It also does not address the processes by which family structure and relationships affect the wellbeing of African-American and poor youth. My work is part of a larger research agenda that has begun to address these issues by focusing on the differential rates of sexual activity among youth living in disadvantaged environments, and developing models to explain this variation. This work suggests that units of socially cohesive, stable adults exist among the social networks of successful children and families in poor neighbourhoods. It also points to the existence and functioning of alternative two-parent family structures and offers hypotheses for how family environment interacts with neighbourhood context to influence youth behaviour. |
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Moore, Mignon R. "Socially Isolated? How Parents and Neighbourhood Adults Influence Youth Behaviour in Disadvantaged Communities ." Ethnic and Racial Studies 26,6 (November 2003): 988-1005.
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