The role of coparents in African American single-mother families: the indirect effect of coparent identity on youth psychosocial adjustment.

ABSTRACT: The majority (67%) of African American youth live in single-parent households, a shift in the family structure that has been linked to increased risk for both internalizing and externalizing problem behaviors. Although the majority of single mothers endorse the assistance of another adult or family member in child rearing, relatively little is known about who is engaged in this nonmarital coparenting role (i.e., grandmother, father/social father, aunt, and female family friend) and how it relates to coparenting quality, maternal parenting, and youth psychosocial outcomes (i.e., internalizing and externalizing problems). This question, which is critical to the advancement of family focused programming for youth in these families, is addressed in this study. The participants examined in the

SUBMITTER: Parent J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4245275 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature