Gender Dynamics and Unmarried Fathers' Involvement with Children

这项研究采访了2000年在芝加哥、密尔沃基或纽约有一个孩子的75对中低收入夫妇，他们大多未婚。 该奖项将资助对样本中的每位家长进行第三波深入的定性访谈。 访谈包括对夫妻关系史的详细描述，正在进行的夫妻动态，以及每个父母和孩子之间的关系。 对儿童的贡献的时间，正式和非正式的儿童支持，并在实物支持。 这项研究调查了这些夫妇中的一些是如何分手的，而另一些是如何在一起的，以及一些父亲是如何继续与他们的孩子在一起的，而另一些则没有。 两种理论方法在指导访谈分析方面很重要。 基于资源的讨价还价预测，获得资源使合作伙伴能够在关系中获得更多他们想要的东西，但也可能使合作伙伴更有可能离开，如果他们没有得到他们想要的东西。 性别理论认为，要求男子遵守性别规范的社会压力可能会压倒妇女在其他方面更强的讨价还价能力，但这种不平衡可能导致妇女退出。

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.