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Involvement of nonresident fathers may protect low-income teens from delinquency
02-07-2007 · EurekAlert!A new study has found that involvement of nonresident biological fathers has protective effects on their adolescent children. The study followed 647 youths aged 10 to 14 across a 16-month period. The families in this study were primarily African-American and Hispanic and living in poverty. When nonresident fathers were involved, the adolescents were less likely to exhibit delinquent behavior such as drug or alcohol use, violence, property crime, and truancy and cheating in school.
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