Gender Dynamics and Unmarried Fathers' Involvement with Children

这项研究采访了75对低收入到中等收入的夫妇，他们大多未婚，他们在2000年在芝加哥、密尔沃基或纽约有了孩子。这一奖项将用于对样本中的每一位家长进行第三波深入定性访谈。采访包括详细描述夫妻的关系历史、持续的夫妻动态以及父母和孩子之间的关系。描述了对儿童时间的贡献、正式和非正式的儿童支助以及实物支助。这项研究调查了这些夫妇中的一些人是如何分手的，而另一些人则留在了一起，以及一些父亲如何继续与他们的孩子在一起，而另一些人则没有。两种理论方法是指导访谈分析的重要方法。基于资源的讨价还价预测，获得资源使伴侣能够从关系中获得更多他们想要的东西，但如果他们得不到想要的东西，也可能会使伴侣更有可能离开。性别理论认为，要求男性遵守性别规范的社会压力可能会压倒女性本来更强大的讨价还价能力，但这种不平衡可能会导致女性退出。

This research interviews 75 low- to moderate-income couples, mostly unmarried, who had a child in 2000 in Chicago, Milwaukee, or New York. This award will fund the third wave of in-depth qualitative interviews with each parent in the sample. Interviews include detailed accounts of the couples' relational history, ongoing couple dynamics, and relationships between each parent and the child. Contributions to the child of time, formal and informal child-support, and in-kind support are described. The study examines how some of these couples break up while others stay together, and how some fathers remain involved with their children while others do not. Two theoretical approaches are important in guiding the analysis of the interviews. Resource-based bargaining predicts that access to resources enables partners to get more of what they want in the relationship but may also make a partner more likely to leave if they are not getting what they want. Gender theories assert that the social pressures on men to follow gender norms may override the otherwise stronger bargaining power of women but that this imbalance may lead to women's exit.