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This finding looks at the relationship between family structure and adolescents' behavioral problems.

Even when controlling for maternal characteristics and background characteristics, adolescents living with both biological parents who were continuously married exhibited lower levels of problem behavior than peers from any other family type.

Sample or Data Description
Data come from the 1996 and 2000 waves of the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY); the analytic sample consists of 2,733 adolescents, ages 10 to 14 in 1996 and 2000, who were living with their mothers and whose fathers were living at the time of the interviews.

Source
"Family Structure, Father Involvement, and Adolescent Behavioral Outcomes"
Carlson, Marcia J.
Journal of Marriage and Family Vol. 68, Number 1. February, 2006. Page(s) 137-154.

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