Department of Sociology, William James Hall, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. New Orleans, LA.
Demography. 2010 Feb;47(1):181-204. doi: 10.1353/dem.0.0096.
Fatherhood has traditionally been viewed as part of a "package deal" in which a father's relationship with his child is contingent on his relationship with the mother. We evaluate the accuracy of this hypothesis in light of the high rates of multiple-partner fertility among unmarried parents using the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, a recent longitudinal survey of nonmarital births in large cities. We examine whether unmarried mothers' and fathers' subsequent relationship and parenting transitions are associated with declines in fathers' contact with their nonresident biological children. We find that father involvement drops sharply after relationships between unmarried parents end. Mothers 'transitions into new romantic partnerships and new parenting roles are associated with larger declines in involvement than fathers' transitions. Declines in fathers' involvement following a mother's relationship or parenting transition are largest when children are young. We discuss the implications of our results for the well-being of nonmarital children and the quality of nonmarital relationships faced with high levels of relationship instability and multiple-partner fertility.
父权传统上被视为“一揽子交易”的一部分，其中父亲与孩子的关系取决于他与母亲的关系。我们使用脆弱家庭和儿童福利研究(Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study)评估了这一假设的准确性，该研究是最近对大城市非婚生育的一项纵向调查。我们研究了未婚父母的后续关系和育儿过渡是否与父亲与非居住亲生子女的联系减少有关。我们发现，父母关系结束后，父亲的参与度急剧下降。与父亲的过渡相比，母亲进入新的浪漫伴侣关系和新的育儿角色与参与度的更大下降有关。当孩子年幼时，母亲的关系或育儿过渡后父亲参与度的下降最大。我们讨论了我们的研究结果对非婚生子女的福祉和面临高水平关系不稳定和多伴侣生育的非婚关系质量的影响。
