parenting across adolescents from EA or MA intact and stepfather families, longitudinal analyses would allow a better understanding of patterns of stability and change across time as a function of family type and ethnicity. Third we recognize the intra group variability among Hispanic Americans and underscore that our sample was restricted to Mexican American fathers. Examination of fathers from Hispanic groups who have immigrated from other Latin countries such as Puerto Rico, Cuba, Central and South American is necessary to establish the generalizability of our findings to other groups of Latino fathers. Our findings suggest that the links between fathering and child/adolescent outcomes may be similar across groups even though the overall levels of fathering behaviors may differ across different Latino subgroups.
