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HHS Strategic Goals and Objectives - FY 2001 . Objective 2.2 - Increase the Parental Involvement and Financial Support of Non-Custodial Parents in the Lives of Their Children

How We Will Accomplish Our Objective We will implement strategies to increase child support collections from non-custodial parents. These will include:

Charting Parenthood: A Statistical Portrait of Fathers and Mothers in America

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Beginning Too Soon: Adolescent Sexual Behavior, Pregnancy and Parenthood. A Review of Research and Interventions.

by : Kristin A. Moore, Brent C. Miller, Barbara W. Sugland, Donna Ruane Morrison, Dana A. Glei, Connie Blumenthal,

Beginning Too Soon: Adolescent Sexual Behavior, Pregnancy and Parenthood. A Review of Research and Interventions.. Pregnancy Resolution

When adolescents become unintentionally pregnant they face several difficult choices. About equal proportions of pregnant adolescents have unintended births (37 percent) or induced abortions (35 percent), with smaller percentages of adolescent pregnancies ending in miscarriages or intended births (about 14 percent each). Given their young age and

What Are the Typical Family Structures of Teens?

Pathways to Adulthood and Marriage: Teenagers’ Attitudes, Expectations, and Relationship Patterns. What Are the Typical Family Structures of Teens?

The family is the first environment in which youth experience adult relationships. Family composition and adult behaviors — such as the presence of one or both parents and the quality and stability of their relationships — have long-lasting consequences for youth. Past research has consistently shown, for example, that children whose parents

The Long Term Impact of Adolescent Risky Behaviors and Family Environment. Chapter VII: Discussion and Future Directions

In this study we have addressed a set of issues which have generally not been analyzed previously. We first examined the relationship between adolescent risky behaviors and long-term adult outcomes. Five adolescent behaviors were studied: alcohol use, marijuana use, cocaine use, sexual activity, and delinquency. Multiple outcomes were measured acr

The Long Term Impact of Adolescent Risky Behaviors and Family Environment. Family Environment Variables

Family Structure : In 1979, data were collected on whom respondents lived with at the age of 14. Twenty-eight categories of living arrangements were collapsed into six family structure categories: living with both biological parents, with single mother, with single father, with mother and stepfather, with father and stepmother, and other relativ

The Long Term Impact of Adolescent Risky Behaviors and Family Environment. Endnotes

20. An alternative question we could have posed would be whether family environment mitigates the impact of risky behaviors on adult outcomes for early initiators as compared with late initiators. We have chosen not to frame the question this way because we want to examine the effects of family environment given the choice to initiate at early a

The Long Term Impact of Adolescent Risky Behaviors and Family Environment. C. Does Parents' Education Affect the Pathways of Early Initiators?

We have addressed the question of whether adolescent family structure may influence the paths of early initiators and found that intact families are generally the best at helping adolescents avoid most negative consequences of risky behaviors. However, even in intact families, some adolescents will develop adulthood problems while others do not. I

The Long Term Impact of Adolescent Risky Behaviors and Family Environment. B. Does Adolescent Family Structure Affect the Pathways of Early Initiators?

In this section we examine family structure as a measure of family environment. Other literature has examined how family structure may influence the choices made by these youths. However, as before, we take as given the point at which youths initiate into a risky behavior. We frame the question of interest around early initiators. Specifically, do

The Long Term Impact of Adolescent Risky Behaviors and Family Environment. 4. The Relationship of Parents' Education (SES) to Adult Outcomes

Parents' socioeconomic status (SES) can play a major role in a variety of ways. Higher income, higher education, and increased access to resources allow parents to invest more in their children's future. They have more access to information about education, jobs, and other opportunities. Furthermore, higher SES parents likely have better informati

The Long Term Impact of Adolescent Risky Behaviors and Family Environment. 3. The Relationship of Adolescent Family Structure to Adult Outcomes

In the previous section we found that engaging in adolescent risky behaviors generally is associated with diminished adult outcomes; the earlier the initiation, the worse the outcome. In this section we examine the role played by adolescent family structure in the relationship to the adult outcomes. As noted in Chapter II , much of the research

The Long Term Impact of Adolescent Risky Behaviors and Family Environment. Chapter IV: The Relationship Between Adolescent Risky Behaviors and Family Environment

Most existing literature on adolescent risky behaviors concentrates on explaining the causes and correlates of the behaviors. A subset of the literature explores the relationship between the behaviors and long-term outcomes. Before we examine the relationship between engaging in adolescent risky behavior and subsequent adult outcomes, we show the

The Long Term Impact of Adolescent Risky Behaviors and Family Environment. D. Family Structure

ast research has emphasized the important role that family-related variables play in the prediction of various adolescent risky behaviors (e.g., Hawkins, et al., 1992; Kandel, 1996). It also seems likely that the impact of adolescent risk factors on adult outcomes is influenced, for the better or worse, by the adolescent's family unit. Family stru

The Long Term Impact of Adolescent Risky Behaviors and Family Environment. Main Findings

There is a fairly consistent pattern that engaging in risky behaviors as a teenager is associated with less successful adult outcomes. In most cases, the earlier one engages in the behavior, the more likely one faces a bad outcome as an adult. The most consistent predictor of a bad adult outcome is age of initiation into sexual activity. Alcohol u

The National Evaluation of the Responsible

National Evaluation of the Responsible Fatherhood, Marriage, and Family Strengthening Grants for Incarcerated and Re-Entering Fathers and their Partners: Program Overview and Evaluation Summary

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National Evaluation of the Responsible Fatherhood

Parenting from Prison: Innovative Programs to Support Incarcerated and Reentering Fathers

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Indicators of Welfare Dependence: Annual Report to Congress, 1998. Economic Security Risk Factor 8. Child SUPPORT

Child support provides critical income to families with children and reduces the likelihood of dependence. These child support risk factors reflect the presence and magnitude of child support payments made by noncustodial parents for families receiving services from the Child Support Enforcement Program. Figure ECON 8a. Total, Non-AFDC/TANF,

Incarceration and the Family: A Review of Research and Promising Approaches for Serving Fathers and Families

The number of individuals involved in the criminal justice system is at a historic high. There are almost 2.3 million individuals in U.S. jails and prisons and more than 798,000 people on parole. It is estimated that 7,476,500 children have a parent who is in prison, in jail or under correctional supervision. Minority children are disproportion

More About the Dads: Exploring Associations Between Nonresident Father Involvement and Child Welfare Case Outcomes

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