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Title: Does Parenting Explain the Effects of Structural Conditions on Children?
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1. Kruttschnitt, Candace
McLeod, Jane D.
Dornfeld, Maude
Does Parenting Explain the Effects of Structural Conditions on Children?
Working Paper No. 91-4, Life Course Center, Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota, 1991
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79, Young Women
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Keyword(s): Aid for Families with Dependent Children (AFDC); Alcohol Use; Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Behavior, Antisocial; Behavioral Problems; Children, Behavioral Development; Delinquency/Gang Activity; Deviance; Drug Use; Fathers, Absence; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Household Composition; Marital Disruption; Marital Status; Parental Influences; Parents, Single; Poverty; Racial Differences

This study examines the interrelationships among social locations, parenting and antisocial behavior for both black and white children. Based on previous theoretical formulations, the authors hypothesized that the effects of social locations on children's antisocial behavior would be mediated by parenting processes and would vary by racial group. Despite minor race differences in the processes linking social locations to antisocial behavior, the general structure of these processes are quite similar for blacks and whites. Specifically, among children of both races, parenting behaviors offer a nearly complete explanation for the higher levels of antisocial behavior observed among poor children. Similar results do not appear for the other social locations that were examined. Parenting behaviors explained relatively little of the relationship between marital disruptions and antisocial behavior and maternal deviance and antisocial behavior, regardless of race.
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Kruttschnitt, Candace, Jane D. McLeod and Maude Dornfeld. "Does Parenting Explain the Effects of Structural Conditions on Children?" Working Paper No. 91-4, Life Course Center, Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota, 1991.