Acknowledgments Introduction 1. One Thing Leads to Another 2. Thank You, Jesus 3. The Stupid Shit 4. Ward Cleaver 5. Sesame Street Mornings 6. Fight or Flight 7. Try, Try Again 8. The New Package Deal Appendix Notes References Index

African American fathers, specifically low-income African American father absence and conceptions of fathering, have been a primary focus of discussions across family research, practice, and policy. Relatively little empirical data exist on the ways in which these fathers are engaged in the early cognitive and social-emotional development of their children, the effects of this engagement, or the social ecologies that shape it. This chapter will provide a synthesis of what we know from the literature and the field, drawing from large datasets and in-depth ethnographic research to capture the complexity of issues and possibilities for research as a resource for practice and policy.

Doing the best I can : fatherhood in the inner city

African American Fathers and Their Young Children: Images from the Field

Recall Bias in Women's and Men's Reports of Pregnancy Intentions in the National Survey of Family Growth

Lower levels of happiness among Blacks compared with Whites are well documented, as are lower levels of happiness among parents compared with nonparents. Yet it remains unclear whether the parenting happiness gap is larger among Blacks compared with Whites. Drawing on the General Social Survey (2010–2018), the authors investigate this question. The authors find that White mothers reported less happiness compared with their White female nonparent counterparts, but contrary to research highlighting the profound challenges of parenting for Black women, a parental happiness gap among Black women was not observed. Among Black men, parents reported a much higher probability of being very happy than their nonparent counterparts, whereas White fathers’ happiness was no different from that of their male counterparts without children. These findings are discussed in view of stereotypes about Black mothers and fathers, their resilience to stressors such as racism and discrimination, and emerging research on the salience of fatherhood for Black men.

Black-White Differences in Parental Happiness

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Facilitating a change of mind about father God through mentoring of the fatherless

The U.S. federal Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) childcare subsidy represents the largest source of means-tested assistance for U.S. families with low incomes. The CCDF subsidy aims to help mothers with low incomes gain employment and education, with implications for women’s labor force participation, and the wellbeing of their children. Because recipients of the CCDF subsidy are either already employed, or seek the subsidy with the goal of gaining employment or schooling, this group may represent the public assistance recipients who are best able to succeed in the low-wage labor market. However, existing research on the CCDF observes recipients only after they begin receiving the subsidy, thus giving an incomplete picture of whether recipients may select into subsidy receipt, and how subsidy recipiency is situated in women’s broader work and family trajectories. My study links administrative records from the CCDF to the American Community Survey (ACS) to construct a longitudinal data set from 38 states that observes CCDF recipients in the 1-2 years before they first received the subsidy. I compare women who subsequently received the CCDF subsidy to other women with low incomes in the ACS who did not go on to receive the subsidy, with a total of roughly 641,000 individuals. I find that CCDF recipients are generally positively-selected on employment history and educational attainment, but appear to have lower levels of social support than non-recipients.

Doing the best I can : fatherhood in the inner city

Citations

African American Fathers and Their Young Children: Images from the Field

Recall Bias in Women's and Men's Reports of Pregnancy Intentions in the National Survey of Family Growth

Black-White Differences in Parental Happiness

Facilitating a change of mind about father God through mentoring of the fatherless

High Labor Force Attachment, but Few Social Ties? Life-Course Predictors of Women’s Receipt of Childcare Subsidies

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