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This brief, the tenth in the “Profiles of Risk” series examining characteristics of homeless families in the United States, explores differences in father involvement by families' housing status. Compared with their stably housed peers, unstably housed children have fathers who are less able to contribute to their well-being; fathers of children who ever experience homelessness are more likely to be young, to be unmarried, to have low incomes, to be incarcerated, and to abuse drugs than the fathers of children who are stably housed. Fathers of unstably housed children make fewer financial contributions and spend less time with their sons and daughters than fathers of stably housed children.
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