Thinking 3 Rather than 2 + 1: How a Coparenting Framework Can Transform Infant Mental Health Efforts with Unmarried African American Parents

Autor/inn/en	Gaskin-Butler, Vikki T.; McKay, Katherine; Gallardo, Gypsy; Salman-Engin, Selin; Little, Tara; McHale, James P.
Titel	Thinking 3 Rather than 2 + 1: How a Coparenting Framework Can Transform Infant Mental Health Efforts with Unmarried African American Parents
Quelle	In: ZERO TO THREE, 35 (2015) 5, S.49-58 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0736-8038
Schlagwörter	African Americans; Child Rearing; Program Descriptions; Poverty; One Parent Family; Family Structure; Mothers; Fathers; Interpersonal Relationship; Intervention; Prenatal Care; Infants; Parent Child Relationship; Community Leaders; Outreach Programs; Program Design; Parenting Skills; Consciousness Raising; Scores; Conflict; Statistical Analysis; Play; Florida + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Afroamerikaner; Kindererziehung; Armut; Single parent family; Ein-Eltern-Familie; Familienkonstellation; Familiensystem; Mother; Mutter; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Pränatale Versorgung; Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Community leadership; Gemeindeleitung; Jobcoaching; Programme design; Programmaufbau; Programmplanung; Bewusstseinsbildung; Konflikt; Statistische Analyse; Spiel
Abstract	More than half of poor African American infants are born into "fragile families" and nearly half grow up in single-mother families with little or no father involvement. However, most prenatal interventions fail to help unmarried mothers talk and plan together with their baby's father, especially when fathers are nonresidential. This article details one of the nation's first interventions explicitly designed to support coparenting and triangular (mother-father-infant) relationships in African American families where the parents are unmarried, be they coupled or uncoupled. The Figuring It Out for the Child (FIOC) project in St. Petersburg, FL, successfully partnered with local community leaders in designing, implementing, and evaluating a novel dyadic, prenatal intervention enrolling both coresidential and noncoresidential African American parents. The authors provide an overview of the state of the field when the project began, explain the significance of the project's community connectedness, summarize details of outreach efforts, and highlight noteworthy findings relevant to this issue. (As Provided).
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