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.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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105 p., Situation analysis of children and their families in the Eastern Caribbean in: Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, British Virgin Island, Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, St. Lucia, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Vincent and the Grenadines and the Turks and Caicos Islands.
Presents the views of a lesbian mother regarding the laws in the U.S. She highlights her several experiences related to political, children, family and sexuality including the anti-Klan protest, abortion rights rallies, and her arrest for demanding an end to apartheid. She explores the Cuban National Center for Sex Education (CENESEX) Sexual Diversity Project.
