Low - Income Teen Fathers ’ Trajectory of Involvement
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Title of Document: LOW-INCOME TEEN FATHERS’ TRAJECTORY OF INVOLVEMENT: THE INFLUENCE OF INDIVIDUAL, CONTEXTUAL, AND COPARENTAL FACTORS Allison Kay Holmes, Ph.D., 2009 Directed By: Professor Brenda Jones Harden, Ph.D., Human Development and Child Studies While teen births are on the rise and marriage rates are on the decline, fathers have become a recent focus. However, there is a dearth of literature on teen fathers’ parenting behaviors. The current study provided a portrait of Early Head Start teen fathers’ involvement throughout early childhood and salient influences on that involvement. This study maximized developmental and life course perspectives by employing a longitudinal analysis (i.e., Latent Growth Curve Model) that emphasized
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