Parent Imprisonment and Child Socialization Research Project. Executive Summary.
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| Title: | Parent Imprisonment and Child Socialization Research Project. Executive Summary. |
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| Language: | English |
| Authors: | Howard Univ., Washington, DC. Dept. of Psychology., British Library, London (England). Research and Development Dept. |
| Peer Reviewed: | N |
| Page Count: | 57 |
| Publication Date: | 1978 |
| Sponsoring Agency: | Office of Child Development (DHEW), Washington, DC. |
| Document Type: | Reports - Research |
| Descriptors: | Blacks, Comparative Analysis, Cross Sectional Studies, Family Characteristics, Family Problems, Fatherless Family, Longitudinal Studies, Measures (Individuals), One Parent Family, Parent Attitudes, Parent Child Relationship, Prisoners, Projective Measures, Social Influences, Theories |
| Geographic Terms: | District of Columbia |
| Abstract: | This executive summary reports on an investigation of the impact of parent-absence on the socialization of black children. Four different studies were conducted by the Parent Improvement and Child Socialization Project among respondents identified through lists of inmates supplied by the D.C. Department of Corrections and by visits to penal institutions in the Washington Metropolitan area. In the first study specially-designed culturally relevant questionnaires were used to follow the academic and personality development of a group of black children through three years of schooling. The second study employed a Transactional Analysis approach to assess ways black female prisoners viewed separation from their children. In the third study, 121 children of separated, divorced and incarcerated parents were examined on several intellectual/academic achievement performance variables. The fourth study examined types of single-parent families in relationship to employment/unemployment, knowledge and availability of supplemental child care, community involvement, absent-spouse status and effects of maternal employment on the child. Among the five categories of parent absent families (divorce, desertion, separation, death and incarceration) differences were observed in two major areas: (1) socio-psychological variables affecting parent-absent families, and (2) the impact of various social systems and their interaction with the family. (Author/RH) |
| Entry Date: | 1981 |
| Accession Number: | ED200319 |
| Database: | ERIC |
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