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This finding looks at the relationship between family structure and fathers' nurturing.

For all races, students from intact families reported a higher level of fathers’ nurturing than peers whose parents had divorced. Variance in levels of nurturing for different family structures was greater in reports from non-Hispanic Black, Hispanic, and mixed-race students than for non-Hispanic White and Asian students.

Sample or Data Description
Data come from an ethnically diverse sample of 1,989 university students, a subset of a larger sample, interviewed between 1998 and 2000.

Source
"Fathering in Intact and Divorced Families: Ethnic Differences in Retrospective Reports"
Schwartz, Seth J.
Finley, Gordon E.
Journal of Marriage and Family Vol. 67, Number 1. February, 2005. Page(s) 207-215.

FindingID: 7620