2011 The Palm Beach County Family Study (Full Report)
2011 The Palm Beach County Family Study (Full Report)
2011 The Palm Beach County Family Study (Full Report)
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Table 28. Fathers’ Negative Parenting Activities over Time aActivity% Father/Partner% Father/Partner% Father/Partner% Father/Partner% Father/PartnerYear 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5(n=250) (n=238) (n=225) (n=225) (n=225)Lost temper with children (Y2) — 40 48 54 44Found hitting/spanking a good way toget children to listen17 22 24 31 22Got more angry than meant to withchildren20 11 10 16 14Punished children for not finishingfood on plate b 15 4 7 8 7Blamed children for something nottheir fault b 17 10 8 7 12Mean (SD) Negative ParentingScore (range:0–1) c 0.15 (.25) 0.12 (.20) 0.12 (.19) 0.16 (.21) 0.14 (.21)a Data were weighted to adjust for the oversampling of mothers in the Glades and mothers screened “at risk.”b Asked only of mothers with children 1 year or older (n=137 in year 1 and n=236 in year 2).c Mean parenting scores are based on parenting items included in all five surveys. (Y2) and (Y3) indicate items added in year 2 oryear 3 that were excluded in the calculation of mean scores.*Paired sample t-tests indicate that the following year-to-year differences are statistically significant at p < .05 or lower: hitting1vs. hitting3; hitting1 vs. hitting4; hitting2 vs. hitting4; hitting4 vs. hitting5; angry1 .v angry2; angry1 vs. angry3; angry1 vs.angry5; angry3 vs. angry4; food1 vs. food2; food1 vs. food3; blame3 vs. blame5; blame4 vs. blame5; temper2 vs. temper3;temper2 vs. temper4; temper3 vs. temper4; temper4 vs. temper5; score1 vs. score3; score2 vs. score4; score3 vs. score4.Parent Involvement ActivitiesAnother important area of parenting is involvement in children’s out-of-home care and education.Research has shown the value of parental involvement in both early childhood education and laterschooling with respect to children’s academic outcomes (e.g., Epstein, 2001; Hill & Craft, 2003; Jeynes,2003; Meidel & Reynolds, 1999). At the time of the year 5 interview, over three-fourths of the mothershad children who were in childcare or school and, thus, were asked additional questions about theirinvolvement in their children’s out-of-home care and education.As shown in Table 29, about three-fourths of these mothers reported talking with their children’s teacherand helping their children with homework during the previous 3 months. Over half of the mothers hadattended a parent-teacher conference (62%); as shown in Table C- 15, foreign-born mothers were morelikely than U.S.-born mothers to report attending such a conference. Almost half (44%) of all mothersreported they had participated in a field trip or school event for families, with U.S.-born mothers morelikely than foreign-born mothers to report doing so. A third reported attending a PTA meeting during theChapin Hall at the University of Chicago 49