@article{1426,
  keywords = {Fatherhood and father involvement, Brain and cognitive development, Child behavior},
  author = {Jay Fagan and Natasha Cabrera},
  title = {Trajectories of low-income Mothers{\textquoteright} and Fathers{\textquoteright} engagement in learning activities and child socioemotional skills in middle childhood},
  abstract = {<p>Using Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing data (N = 3259), the current study examined Black and Latinx mothers{\textquoteright} and fathers{\textquoteright} trajectories of engagement in learning activities (e.g., storytelling) from infancy to age 5, and whether those trajectories predicted socioemotional skills at age 9, predictors of the trajectories (poverty, mother-father nonresidence, temperament, race/ethnicity), and moderators of the trajectories. Mothers{\textquoteright} and fathers{\textquoteright} learning activities decreased significantly over time as children got older. Higher rates of decline in fathers{\textquoteright} engagement in learning activities over time significantly predicted lower socioemotional skills. Mother-father nonresidence during infancy was associated significantly with higher rates of decline in mothers{\textquoteright} and fathers{\textquoteright} learning activities. Difficult temperament moderated the association between fathers{\textquoteright} trajectories and child outcomes.</p>
},
  year = {2022},
  journal = {Social Development},
  volume = {32},
  pages = {672-689},
  url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/sode.12647},
}