Kiernan Kathleen, Smith Kate
Department of Social Policy, Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, London School of Economics.
Popul Trends. 2003 Winter(114):26-33.
This study uses information from the Millennium Cohort Study to examine the characteristics of families where children are born within a marriage, within a cohabiting union or outside of a co-residential partnership. For this latter group, for the first time in a national data set, an assessment can be made of the 'strength' of the parent's relationship at the time of the birth. We show that the context of childbearing varies with respect to geography, ethnicity, age, parity and educational status of the mother, and that the socioeconomic wellbeing of families varies according to the partnership status of their parents. A closer look at the non-partnered parents shows that the extent to which the fathers were involved with the mother of the child around the time the baby was born was related to the presence of the father at the birth of the child and whether his name was recorded on the child's birth certificate; as well as to subsequent behaviour, such as, whether they moved in with the mother, saw their children on a regular basis or contributed money to the child's maintenance.
本研究利用千禧队列研究的信息，考察孩子出生在婚姻内、同居关系内或非同居伴侣关系外的家庭特征。对于后一组家庭，在全国性数据集中首次能够评估孩子出生时父母关系的“紧密程度”。我们发现，生育背景因地理区域、种族、年龄、母亲的胎次和教育程度而有所不同，而且家庭的社会经济福祉会根据其父母的伴侣关系状况而有所差异。进一步观察非伴侣关系的父母发现，孩子出生前后父亲与孩子母亲的参与程度与孩子出生时父亲是否在场以及其名字是否记录在孩子的出生证明上有关；也与后续行为有关，比如是否搬去与母亲同住、是否定期看望孩子或是否为孩子的抚养提供经济支持。
