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Record W4411636189 · doi:10.1177/0192513x251356263

Fatherlessness: Black Jamaican Mothers’ Perspectives

2025· article· en· W4411636189 on OpenAlexafffund
David S. Green

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Family Issues · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicMigration and Labor Dynamics
Canadian institutionsWestern University
FundersUniversity of Toronto
KeywordsPsychologyGender studiesBlack maleDevelopmental psychologySociology

Abstract

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This study highlights fatherlessness as a multifaceted phenomenon, emphasizing the need for careful consideration when assigning this label to children. The research employs framework analysis methodology to analyze qualitative data from semistructured interviews with 25 Black Jamaican mothers. The findings reveal two primary themes: deficiencies in fathering and diverse reasons for fatherlessness. Deficiencies in fathering include a lack of male presence or influence, a child’s feeling of fatherlessness, and inadequate fathering. The diverse reasons for fatherlessness include the irresponsible behaviors of parents, the dynamics of male‒female relationships, life events, a lack of role models, and poor social fathering. The study concludes that addressing socioeconomic factors, such as unemployment and a lack of education, is crucial for creating a supportive environment for families. Policymakers, community leaders, and social service providers are urged to collaborate in developing programs that promote positive father engagement and support social fathers and other male role models.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.360
Threshold uncertainty score0.236

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.021
GPT teacher head0.355
Teacher spread0.334 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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