Coparenting and nonresident fathers' involvement with young children after a nonmarital birth
Coparenting and nonresident fathers' involvement with young children after a nonmarital birth
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DOI：
10.1353/dem.0.0007
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发表时间：
2008-05-01
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影响因子：
3.5
通讯作者：
Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne
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作者：
Carlson, Marcia J.;McLanahan, Sara S.;Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne
我们使用来自脆弱家庭和儿童福利研究的数据来调查非婚生育后前五年内共同养育质量和非居民父亲与孩子的参与之间的关联。我们发现，在非婚生育一年后，48%的父亲与孩子分开生活，三年和五年后分别上升到56%和63%。使用结构方程模型来估计交叉滞后效应，我们发现，积极的coparenting是一个强有力的预测非居民父亲的未来参与，而父亲的参与只是一个弱（但显着）预测未来coparenting质量。共同养育质量对父亲参与的积极影响是强大的几种技术，旨在解决未观察到的异质性和处理缺失数据的不同策略。我们的结论是，父母的能力，共同抚养他们的共同孩子跨家庭帮助保持非居民父亲连接到他们的孩子，旨在提高父母的沟通能力的计划可能有好处的孩子，无论父母的浪漫关系是否保持完好。
We use data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study to investigate the association between coparenting quality and nonresident fathers' involvement with children over the first five years after a nonmarital birth. We find that about one year after a nonmarital birth, 48% of fathers are living away from their child, rising to 56% and then to 63% at three and five years, respectively. Using structural equation models to estimate cross-lagged effects, we find that positive coparenting is a strong predictor of nonresident fathers' future involvement, whereas fathers' involvement is only a weak (but significant) predictor of future coparenting quality. The positive effect of coparenting quality on fathers' involvement is robust across several techniques designed to address unobserved heterogeneity and across different strategies for handling missing data. We conclude that parents' ability to work together in rearing their common child across households helps keep nonresident fathers connected to their children and that programs aimed at improving parents' ability to communicate may have benefits for children irrespective of whether the parents' romantic relationship remains intact.