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AMATO, PAUL R. MEYERS, CATHERINE E. EMERY, ROBERT E. Changes in Nonresident Father-Child Contact from 1976 to 2002 Family Relations 58,1 (February 2009): 41-53 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79 ID Number: 6049 Publisher: National Council on Family Relations To study changes in nonresident father contact since the 1970s, we pooled data from 4 national surveys: the National Survey of Children (1976), the National Survey of Families and Households (1987 - 1988), the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (1996), and the National Survey of America's Families (2002). On the basis of mothers' reports, levels of contact rose significantly across surveys. Paying child support and having a nonmarital birth were strongly related to contact frequency. The increase in contact may be beneficial in general but problematic if it occurs within the context of hostile interparental relationships. Because nonresident fathers are having more contact with their children now than in the past, an increasing need exists for practitioners to help parents find ways to separate their former romantic roles from their ongoing parental roles and to develop at least minimally cooperative coparental relationships. Reprinted by permission of the publisher. CHEADLE, JACOB E. AMATO, PAUL R. KING, VALARIE Patterns of Nonresident Father Contact Demography 47,1 (February 2010): 206-225. Also: http://web.ebscohost.com.proxy.lib.ohio-state.edu/ehost/pdf?vid=2&hid=2&sid=61e6c8d5-9246-466a-b53f-1d8964397b09%40sessionmgr4 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 ID Number: 6456 Publisher: Population Association of America Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. We used the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 cohort (NLSY79) from 1979 to 2002 and the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (CNLSY) from 1986 to 2002 to describe the number, shape, and population frequencies of U.S. nonresident father contact trajectories over a 14-year period using growth mixture models. The resulting four-category classification indicated that nonresident father involvement is not adequately characterized by a single population with a monotonic pattern of declining contact over time. Contrary to expectations, about two-thirds of fathers were consistently either highly involved or rarely involved in their children's lives. Only one group, constituting approximately 23% of fathers, exhibited a clear pattern of declining contact. In addition, a small group of fathers (8%) displayed a pattern of increasing contact. A variety of variables differentiated between these groups, including the child's age at father-child separation, whether the child was born within marriage, the mother's education, the mother's age at birth, whether the father pays child support regularly, and the geographical distance between fathers and children. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] Search returned 2 items. Search Start: 03:53:00 Search Finish: 03:53:00
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