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Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Adolescent boys more prone to delinquency without a father

Adolescent boys more prone to delinquency without a father from Physorg.com

The study, undertaken by the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research at the Faculty of Business and Economics, found that the presence of a father figure during adolescence was most likely to have a preventive effect on whether male youths engage in risk-taking and deviant behaviour...

Using American data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, three factors were studied in the role of fathers influencing youth delinquency: parental involvement and interaction, contribution to household income and engagement with a father figure by simply being present at home.

I found this key to low-income families.

Additionally, higher family incomes were found to have little effects on solving the problems associated with youth delinquency.
The working paper from the Melbourne Institute here.

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