Citation

Perloff JN, Buckner JC. Am. J. Orthopsychiatry 1996; 66(4): 557-571.

Affiliation

Better Homes Fund, Newton, Mass., USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1996, American Orthopsychiatric Association, Publisher Wiley Blackwell)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

8911622

Abstract

Although it is generally assumed that fathers are absent from the lives of children being raised on AFDC, evidence from a case-control study in Worcester, Massachusetts, suggests that there is considerable father-child contact. In addition, multivariate modeling indicates that contact with fathers had a modest beneficial effect on children's behavior. Based on these study findings, negative traits of fathers (e.g., substance abuse, physical violence) appear to be associated with increased child behavior problems.

Language: en