@article{304,
  keywords = {Fatherhood and father involvement, Race and ethnicity},
  author = {Kathryn Edin and Laura Tach and Ronald Mincy},
  title = {Claiming Fatherhood: Race and the Dynamics of Paternal Involvement among Unmarried Men},
  abstract = {<p>In 1965, Daniel Patrick Moynihan argued that the black family was nearing "complete breakdown" clue to high rates of out-of-wedlock childbearing. In subsequent decades, nonmarital childbearing rose dramatically for all racial groups and unwed fathers were often portrayed as being absent from their children{\textquoteright}s lives. The authors examine contemporary nonmarital father involvement using quantitative evidence from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study and qualitative evidence from in-depth interviews with 150 unmarried fathers. The authors find that father involvement drops sharply after parents{\textquoteright} relationships end, especially when they enter subsequent relationships and have children with new partners. These declines are less dramatic for African American fathers, suggesting that fathers{\textquoteright} roles outside of conjugal relationships may be more strongly institutionalized in the black community. The challenges Moynihan described among black families some forty years ago now extend to a significant minority of all American children</p>
},
  year = {2009},
  journal = {Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science},
  volume = {621},
  number = {1},
  pages = {149-177},
  url = {http://ann.sagepub.com/content/621/1/149.abstract},
}