Adolescents With Two Nonresident Biological Parents: Living Arrangements, Parental Involvement, and Well-Being

King, Valarie; Mitchell, Katherine; Hawkins, Daniel N.

doi:10.1177/0192513x09345833

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“…Finally, is the higher contact of non-resident repartnered mothers due to a selection effect moving in the opposite direction to that of non-resident repartnered fathers, or to inadequate control of differences in their new family (i.e., new children)? Alternatively, can we hypothesize that in Italy when the mother can count on having a new own family, a gender effect that considers women to be the nurturers of children (King, Stamps, and Hawkins, 2010) is operating? These and other questions may drive further longitudinal studies that aim to overcome a purely descriptive approach.…”

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Non-resident parent-child contact after marital dissolution and parental repartnering: Evidence from Italy

Meggiolaro¹,

Ongaro²

2015

DemRes

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BACKGROUND\ud With the diffusion of marital instability, the number of children who spend some of their childhood without one of their parents has become significant, even in Italy. Therefore, given the importance of parent-child interactions for children’s wellbeing, analyzing children’s contact with the non-resident parent has become relevant.\ud OBJECTIVE\ud In this paper we consider the frequency of contact between children and their non-resident parent after separation, with a double aim: a) to analyze if and how the non-resident parent’s contact with his/her children varies according to whether the (resident or non-resident) parent has repartnered, and b) to investigate whether the relationship between repartnering and contact differs according to the gender of the non-resident parent.\ud METHODS\ud The study focuses on children aged 0-17 living with only one biological parent, using data pooled together from two cross-sectional rounds of the Italian survey, Family and Social Subjects.\ud RESULTS\ud Results show that parents’ repartnering is positively associated with lower non-resident parent-child contact only in the case of non-resident fathers; in the case of a non-resident mother, her repartnering is actually correlated with higher contact

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Non-resident parent-child contact after marital dissolution and parental repartnering: Evidence from Italy

Meggiolaro¹,

Ongaro²

2015

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“…Compared to children with biological fathers in the household, children without fathers or those who do not live with their biological fathers were found to be less prepared for school (Fowler & Richards, 1978;Martin et al, 2010), to have lower academic achievement and cognitive ability (Cherlin & Furstenberg, 1994;Hetherington & Stanley-Hagan, 1997;Mulkey, Crain, & Harrington, 1992;Rodgers & Rose, 2001), to experience higher risk of school dropout (McLanahan & Sandefur, 1994;Suh & Suh, 2011), and to exhibit higher levels of behavior problems (King, Mitchell, & Hawkins, 2010). For instance, Menning (2006) found that when nonresident fathers had higher involvement in their children's lives, those children had a lower probability of detrimental school outcomes; the students who were most at risk were those whose fathers had infrequent involvement.…”

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“…They may have had the disadvantages that often come with a single-mother household, such as low SES, lack of father involvement, and perhaps lower mother involvement, especially if the mother is working long hours to support her child or children. Adolescents also have lower socioemotional stability and experience negative feelings toward their fathers when their fathers are not available to support them emotionally, academically, spiritually, or physically (Downey, Ainsworth-Darnell, & Dufur, 1998;King et al, 2010;Menning, 2006;Popenoe, 1999;Sweeney, 2007).…”

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Fathers’ Importance in Adolescents’ Academic Achievement

Whitney

Prewett

Wang

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IJCYFS

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Many studies have investigated mothers' impact on students' achievement, yet little is known about how various father types impact students' school performance. This study examines 6 mutually exclusive categories of father type: resident biological fathers, resident stepfathers, resident adoptive fathers, nonresident biological fathers, unknown biological fathers, and deceased fathers. Adolescents' school performance from seventh through twelfth grade is examined using data from 3 waves of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health), a nationally representative United States secondary data source. Findings indicate different types of fathers have distinct and independent positive associations with adolescents' school achievement, after controlling for mother involvement. Adolescents with resident biological fathers had higher school performance than adolescents with nonresident fathers. Adolescents with stepfathers had higher rates of school failure than their peers living with their biological parents. The lowest achievement and the highest risk of school failure and course failure were experienced by those adolescents who did not have a resident father figure and didn't know the identity of their fathers. Implications include the need to model for the unique influence of father involvement and father type on academic achievement, and the inclusion of unique family contexts in efforts to increase adolescents' school involvement and integration.

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“…Yet most studies of nonresident parent involvement have been limited to children with a resident parent and examine, for example, the effects of a stepparent (Buchanan, Maccoby, & Dornbusch, 1996). Despite lower child well‐being and higher rates of poverty (King, Mitchell, & Hawkins, 2010; Sun, 2003), little is known about nonresident parent involvement for children with two nonresident parents who live with grandparents, relatives, or nonrelatives.…”

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Children With Nonresident Parents: Living Arrangements, Visitation, and Child Support

Stewart

2010

J of Marriage and Family

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One third of all children in the United States have a nonresident parent. On the basis of 13,085 children with a nonresident parent drawn from the 1997 National Survey of America's Families, this study examines nonresident mothers' and fathers' involvement (visitation and child support) with children who reside in different household types: single‐parent families, married and cohabiting stepfamilies, and families headed by grandparents, other relatives, or nonrelatives. The relationship between children's living arrangements and nonresident parent involvement is complex and depends on both the gender of the nonresident parent and the type of involvement. Because nonresident parent involvement is low regardless of household type, policies and programs designed to increase involvement should include children in a variety of family forms.

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Adolescents With Two Nonresident Biological Parents: Living Arrangements, Parental Involvement, and Well-Being

Cited by 18 publications

References 27 publications

Non-resident parent-child contact after marital dissolution and parental repartnering: Evidence from Italy

Non-resident parent-child contact after marital dissolution and parental repartnering: Evidence from Italy

Fathers’ Importance in Adolescents’ Academic Achievement

Children With Nonresident Parents: Living Arrangements, Visitation, and Child Support

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