Parent‐Adolescent Involvement: The Relative Influence of Parent Gender and Residence

Hawkins, Daniel N.; Amato, Paul R.; King, Valarie

doi:10.1111/j.1741-3737.2006.00238.x

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“…However, the results suggest some hypotheses for further more focused research on the topic, especially for countries at a relatively early stage of transition to more complex family forms. Is the irrelevance of the resident parent's gender, when neither parent has repartnered, explained by the lack of a control for relevant non-resident parent or family characteristics, or by the "absent parent hypothesis", according to which mothers and fathers face similar difficulties in their non-residential role (Hawkins, Amato, and King 2006)? Does non-resident repartnered fathers' lower level of contact depend on the fact that they are selected for having lower contact with their children even before repartnering, or are there mechanisms linked with repartnering (Swiss and Le Bourdais 2009)?…”

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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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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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“…In addition, mothers display greater involvement with adolescent children than fathers, regardless of parents' residence arrangements (being a resident or a non-resident parent), socioeconomic status, ethnicity, and adolescents' gender (Hawkins et al 2006).…”

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Daughters’ Anger towards Mothers and Fathers in Emerging Adulthood

2016

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We examined young women's anger towards mothers and fathers in emerging adulthood using a qualitative methodology and a feminist theoretical framework. To achieve this objective, we interviewed 16 young women (18-25 years-old) residing in the U.S. Mid-Atlantic region about their relationship with fathers and mothers and their anger within these relationships. The qualitative analysis revealed four types of relationships between young adult women and their fathers and mothers: challenging conflictual, challenging mutual, accepting authoritarian, and accepting authoritative. Our analysis also demonstrated that young women relate in two ways to their anger at mothers and fathers: accepting anger or distancing from anger. Furthermore, they express their anger at mothers and fathers following three distinct patterns: non-expression, indirect expression, and direct expression. The distribution of participants within coding sub-categories for anger at fathers and anger at mothers, as well as the reasons provided by young women as to why they related to anger or expressed anger in a particular manner at fathers and mothers suggests: (a) women's relationships to fathers and mothers are shaped by gender power dynamics in the family and (b) women's relation to anger and anger expression towards mothers and fathers is influenced by gendered relationships towards fathers and mothers.Keywords Women's anger . Parent-child relationships . Gender . Emerging adulthood . Feminist family studiesIn the current study, we examined young women's relationship to their mothers and fathers, young women's relation to their anger towards mothers and fathers, and young women's anger expression to mothers and fathers. In order to approach these objectives, we used a feminist theoretical framework and a qualitative methodology to collect and analyze data. The findings of our study contribute to a better understanding of (a) how gender structures daughter-parent relationships in emerging adulthood and (b) how gender shapes anger experience and expression in those relationships. We recruited a sample of mostly young U.S. women (18-25 years-old) from intact two-parent families, therefore our findings are mainly applicable to young women in this country and should be used with caution in research and counseling with women of other ages and cultural backgrounds. Likewise, our review of theoretical and empirical literature is based on studies developed with U.S. samples, unless otherwise noted. In the few cases that non-U.S. samples are referenced, the studies were conducted in westernized countries with many cultural similarities to the United States, but generalization of those results to our sample is potentially more problematic than our U.S. references.Feminist family studies have demonstrated the influence of the larger gender structure on parent-child relationships, focusing mostly on childhood, adolescence, and older adulthood (Walker 1999). Less is known about how gender shapes parent-child relationships in young (or emerging) adulthood. Non...

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“…On the other hand, research with both mothers and fathers suggests that, compared with women, men spend less time providing direct care of their child, but are involved more than women in interactive activities such as physical play and homework (e.g. Hall, Walker, & Acock,1995;Hawkins, Amato, & King, 2006). Nevertheless, the explanation of a possible sex effect of such parenting on the social behaviour of the child remains obscure.…”

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The differential contribution of maternal and paternal values to social competence of preschoolers

Bigras

Crepaldi

2013

Early Child Development and Care

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Parent‐Adolescent Involvement: The Relative Influence of Parent Gender and Residence

Cited by 102 publications

References 30 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

Daughters’ Anger towards Mothers and Fathers in Emerging Adulthood

The differential contribution of maternal and paternal values to social competence of preschoolers

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