Abstract
The central question addressed in the paper is whether teenage daughters are more or less likely to take on quasi-adult companionate and confederate roles vis-a-vis their mothers in maritally nonintact as compared to maritally intact homes. This question was investigated using sample survey data from a study of 449 black and white mothers and their teenaged daughters in Detroit, Michigan. Ten different measures of maternal marital history and current marital status, including measures of the presence and participation of father figures in the home, were developed. Criterion measures included single items and composite indexes for three domains of domestic behavior: the socio-emotional relationship between mother and daughter, task sharing, and parenting. Few significant differences were found by marital history for either black or white families.
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