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2. Cohabitation and Children's Externalizing Behavior in Low-Income Latino Families
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Fomby,Paula (Author) and Estacion,Angela (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2011-02
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Marriage & Family
- Journal Title Details:
- 73(1) : 46-66
- Notes:
- Considers the association of cohabitation experience with externalizing behavior among children of Latina mothers whose ethnic origin is in Mexico, Puerto Rico, or the Dominican Republic. Children of Mexican-origin mothers had greater externalizing problems in childhood and adolescence when their mothers were born in the United States or had immigrated as minors. For children of Caribbean-origin mothers, being born to a cohabiting or married mother had a statistically equivalent association with externalizing behavior when mothers were born outside the mainland United States (Dominican and island-born Puerto Rican mothers). Children of mainland-born Puerto Rican mothers had more behavior problems when their mothers cohabited at birth.