Sentences with phrase «with nonresident fathers»

Children's perspectives on their relationships with their nonresident fathers: influences, outcomes and implications.

«In 38 studies published since 1990, researchers examined linkages between children's well - being and their relationships with nonresident fathers.

Adolescents with nonresident fathers: Are daughters more disadvantaged than sons?

In general, these studies do not provide strong support for the belief that visitation with nonresident fathers benefits children.

Part of the explanation for this pattern may be that children are spending time with their nonresident fathers instead of participating in extracurricular activities.»

Most children in foster care are not living with their fathers at the time they are removed from their homes, and once in substitute care, these children may experience even less contact with their nonresident fathers.

References: Dunn J, Cheng H, O'Connor TG & Bridges L (2004) «Children's perspectives on their relationships with their nonresident fathers: influences, outcomes and implications» Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines 45 (3): 553 - 566

Fact: «In contrast to the hypothesis that parental conflict might negatively interfere with nonresident father involvement, we found conflict over childrearing to be unrelated to father involvement (and the association was in the positive direction).»

Not exact matches

• Stepfather - child relationships are more influential than nonresident father - child relationships in predicting children's adjustment, with the effects increasing by duration of the re-marriage (Hetherington, 1993).

Of those men, 2,739 of them lived with their child and 686 were nonresident fathers.

Involvement by nonresident fathers is associated with more reunifications and fewer adoptions.

While father absence has been associated with a host of negative children's outcomes, including increased risk of dropping out of school and lower educational attainment, poorer physical and mental health, and behavioural problems,36 - 40 higher levels of involvement by nonresident fathers may assuage the negative effects of father absence on children's outcomes.41, 42 Quality of the parents» relationship before divorce, or of the pre-divorce father / child relationship, can also be an important factor: children fare worse following divorce when pre-divorce relationships were good and fare better when pre-divorce relationships were poor, 43,44 suggesting children are sometimes better off without a father if the father's relationship to the child or the mother was not good.

Nonresident fathers may thus be enacting the parent role more successfully now than in the past, with beneficial consequences for children.

Between one - fourth and one - third of nonresident fathers maintain frequent contact with their children, and a roughly equal share of fathers maintains little or no contact.49 Interviews with children reveal that losing contact with fathers is one of the most painful outcomes of divorce.50

Such programs would provide parent education classes for divorcing parents, increase the minimum wage and the earned income tax credit for poor working parents, establish paternity and increase the payment of child support, and improve the quantity and quality of time that nonresident parents, especially fathers, spend with their children.

Nonresident father involvement could also, however, be detrimental if fathers acted in ways that interfered with child health and development or if poor relationship quality between the father and mother led to lower - quality parenting behaviors on her part.

Nevertheless, analysts consistently find that many nonresident fathers are minimally engaged with their children.

However, Lamb's claim above, which is the «but» last sentence in his preceding paragraph, while technically true as a statement of the research findings that a co-resident father in an intact loving home who develops a secondary attachment with an infant does not diminish the infant's attachment to the also - present mother is false to the extent its placement in this article has been done in a way intended to imply that this applies to nonresident fathers.

Nonresident father contact with children and involvement in their schools within the past year are associated with the same three factors: fathers paying child support; custodial mothers being more educated; and custodial homes not experiencing financial difficulties.

One study uses mothers» reports of nonresident father involvement with a representative sample of children in 1997.34 Of those fathers, 34 percent had no contact with the child's household at all, and 49 percent had no influence on decision making.

Learning Resources for Father Engagement North Carolina Division of Social Services, Children's Services Statewide Training Partnership (2013) Training Matters, 14 (2) Provides social workers in North Carolina with resources highlighting the benefits of healthy father involvement in promoting child development, tools for engaging nonresident fathers, and suggestions for conducting interviews with faFather Engagement North Carolina Division of Social Services, Children's Services Statewide Training Partnership (2013) Training Matters, 14 (2) Provides social workers in North Carolina with resources highlighting the benefits of healthy father involvement in promoting child development, tools for engaging nonresident fathers, and suggestions for conducting interviews with fafather involvement in promoting child development, tools for engaging nonresident fathers, and suggestions for conducting interviews with fathers.

Fact: «While public sentiment has been in favor of nonresident father's involvement in family life, there is limited research evidence of whether their involvement yields positive benefits for children (King, 1994) and for the functioning of the biological family unit... most studies, particularly those based on large national databases, have not been able to detect a significant connection between the nonresident father's contact with his child and the child's well - being (Furstenberg et al., 1987; King, 1994).

Fact: «In terms of involvement frequency, mothers tend to be more involved than fathers, and even nonresident mothers engage in as wide a range of activities with children as do most resident fathers.

Fact: Nonresident father's involvement appears to correlate with children's increased academic performance in grades 1 - 12.

This finding is consistent with the meta - analysis by Amato and Gilbreth (1999) showing that when it comes to nonresident father involvement, although feelings of closeness and indicators of authoritative parenting have the strongest influence on child well - being, the effects are generally modest... Our results also reveal that the quality of the mother - child relationship has stronger, more consistent effects on adolescent well - being than the nonresident father - child relationship.

Fact: Nonresident fathers who are involved with their children are more likely to marry other women.

Fact: «The primary aim of this study is to assess how multiple dimensions of nonresident father involvement are associated with different dimensions of adolescent well - being... studies provide some limited evidence that nonresident father - child closeness and authoritative parenting practices may contribute to adolescent well - being independently of the mother - child relationship.

A significant number of nonresident fathers still maintain ties with their children (Amato & Sobolewski, 2004), and recent evidence indicates that when fathers maintain an active presence in their children's lives and foster close bonds with them, their children appear to benefit (Amato & Gilbreth, 1999).»

«The antecedents and consequences of adolescents» relationships with stepfathers and nonresident fathers.»

With respect to nonresident fathers, the researchers found that remembering «special days» (e.g., birthdays and holidays) was the only qualitative measure of nonresident father involvement that was consistently related to adolescent adjustment.

, Handbook of contemporary families (pp. 317 - 330), cited in Valarie King (2007) When Children Have Two Mothers: Relationships With Nonresident Mothers, Stepmothers, and Fathers Journal of Marriage and Family 69 (5), 1178 - 1193.

Fact: «Research has indicated that nonresident mothers do a better job in maintaining close contact with their children than nonresident fathers (Stewart, 1999) and are engaged in as wide a range of activities with their children as are most resident fathers (Hawkins, Amato, & King, 2006).»

Fact:» [F] indings were consistent with previous findings that teens in single - father families tend to have less close emotional ties either with their nonresident mothers or with resident fathers, compared with teens growing up with mothers living in the household (Downey, 1994).

«The stronger association between adolescent outcomes and ties to nonresident mothers compared with ties to stepmothers stands in contrast to the results reported in prior research on resident mother families where close ties to resident stepfathers are more strongly associated with positive adolescent outcomes than ties to nonresident biological fathers (King, 2006; White & Gilbreth, 2001), suggesting important differences in the role of nonresident parents and stepparents by gender....

In terms of involvement frequency, mothers tend to be more involved than fathers, and even nonresident mothers engage in as wide a range of activities with children as do most resident fathers.

Fathers can be absent even when they reside with their children and can be present despite nonresident status.

While father absence has been associated with a host of negative children's outcomes, including increased risk of dropping out of school and lower educational attainment, poorer physical and mental health, and behavioural problems,36 - 40 higher levels of involvement by nonresident fathers may assuage the negative effects of father absence on children's outcomes.41, 42 Quality of the parents» relationship before divorce, or of the pre-divorce father / child relationship, can also be an important factor: children fare worse following divorce when pre-divorce relationships were good and fare better when pre-divorce relationships were poor, 43,44 suggesting children are sometimes better off without a father if the father's relationship to the child or the mother was not good.

Fact: «Nonresident fathers showed slightly lower levels of involvement when their adolescents did not live with their biological mothers, supporting previous work that suggests a pattern of mothers pulling nonresident fathers into parenting (Harris & Ryan, 2004), rather than gatekeeping to limit contact with the adolescNonresident fathers showed slightly lower levels of involvement when their adolescents did not live with their biological mothers, supporting previous work that suggests a pattern of mothers pulling nonresident fathers into parenting (Harris & Ryan, 2004), rather than gatekeeping to limit contact with the adolescnonresident fathers into parenting (Harris & Ryan, 2004), rather than gatekeeping to limit contact with the adolescent.»