Most recent public comments by Valerie Futch https://nowcomment.com/users/2027 https://nowcomment.com/documents/4610?scroll_to=23072 https://nowcomment.com/documents/4610?scroll_to=23072 Hi Aaron, I was thinking something along the lines of an article that looks into whether parenting styles are more important for african-american males than they are for other children. As in, what in either existing empirical literature or theoretical articles suggests that to be the case? (I'm not doubting, just curious as to what is already out there that will help you make your case or at least introduce your topic). I've found a few things, I'll paste the links here. My hunch, just from perusing the abstracts, is that they might provide some useful insight in their literature reviews. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-8624.00405/abstract (I know this one is girls but the lit review may have info on boys) http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1532-7795.00010/abstract http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-8624.1998.tb06244.x/abstract Hopefully one of those gives you some more leads to work with! Tue, 02 Aug 2016 06:59:41 +0200 https://nowcomment.com/documents/4610?scroll_to=22075 https://nowcomment.com/documents/4610?scroll_to=22075 Hi Aaron, This is an interesting topic and I agree with the other commenters that you might refine the focus a bit more. Definitely with regard to 'behavior' - I think the articles you have chosen suggest that you're actually interested in achievement and academic outcomes. It may be helpful to find a comparative study that either supports or refutes that there is anything culturally significant about parenting styles for this population and how that either is or is not connected to region, rural/urban, socioeconomic status, etc. I think the Bean article will be most useful for this. Second, the other three articles are all dissertations. I would prefer for you to find articles that have been published in peer-reviewed sources. My assumption is that probably all of these authors have more recent publications related to their dissertations that would be useful (or they reference some useful empirical articles). Given those suggestions, the Odubote article might send you in a different direction so that is also something to consider. Tue, 02 Aug 2016 06:59:40 +0200 https://nowcomment.com/documents/4243?scroll_to=14825 https://nowcomment.com/documents/4243?scroll_to=14825 Tue, 02 Aug 2016 06:59:40 +0200