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- Protective parenting practices, like monitoring and supportive rules, can impact children's delinquency, but causal evidence had been previously lacking.
- A study involving 346 Black couples with an 11-year-old child randomly assigned to either the ProSAAF intervention or a control group found significant effects of the intervention on reducing youth delinquent behaviors.
- The ProSAAF program effectively promoted better family communication and protective parenting, showing its effectiveness in reducing delinquency among families in resource-scarce communities.
Article Abstract
Protective parenting practices, including parental monitoring and establishing nurturing and supportive rules, are thought to affect the risk of children's involvement in delinquency. However, there has yet to be any direct test of this hypothesis using experimental data designed to test causality better. Data from 346 Black couples with an 11-year-old child were assigned randomly to Protecting Strong African American Families (ProSAAF) intervention or control condition. Results from traditional mediation models, causal mediation analysis, and the complier analysis indicated that the intervention had a significant indirect effect on youth delinquent behaviors and that effects on protective parenting mediated this effect. The results demonstrated that ProSAAF, which is designed to promote family communication, is effective in deterring delinquent behaviors among Black Americans who reside in resource-scarce communities by enhancing parenting practices.
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| http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11601125 | PMC |
| http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07418825.2024.2332372 | DOI Listing |
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