Goldberg Julia S, Carlson Marcia J
Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Center for Demography and Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
J Fam Psychol. 2015 Jun;29(3):416-26. doi: 10.1037/fam0000078. Epub 2015 Apr 13.
Nonmarital childbearing has increased dramatically during the past several decades, and the majority of unmarried couples will break up while their child is still young. As a result, many children will be raised by their biological parents living apart, ideally working together as effective coparents. In this article, we use data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (N = 1,193) to describe the trajectories of coparenting over 6 years following the end of a nonmarital relationship and to identify individual and interpersonal characteristics associated with better coparenting over time. Results from growth mixture models (GMMs) suggest that there are 4 primary trajectories of coparenting over time, and results from multinomial logit models show that couples' race/ethnicity, maternal health, and parents' relationship and fertility characteristics are the most salient predictors of coparenting trajectories. These results highlight the heterogeneity of parents' interaction vis-à-vis their common child after a nonmarital union dissolves and point to the challenges of supporting families and children amid high instability.
在过去几十年中，非婚生育现象急剧增加，而且大多数未婚伴侣会在孩子尚幼时分手。因此，许多孩子将由分居的亲生父母抚养，理想情况下，他们会作为有效的共同父母共同协作。在本文中，我们使用脆弱家庭与儿童福利研究的数据（N = 1193）来描述非婚姻关系结束后6年期间共同养育子女的轨迹，并确定与随着时间推移更好地共同养育子女相关的个人和人际特征。增长混合模型（GMM）的结果表明，随着时间的推移，共同养育子女有4种主要轨迹，多项逻辑回归模型的结果显示，夫妻的种族/民族、母亲的健康状况以及父母的关系和生育特征是共同养育轨迹最显著的预测因素。这些结果凸显了非婚姻关系解体后父母在与他们的亲生孩子互动方面的异质性，并指出了在高度不稳定的情况下支持家庭和儿童所面临的挑战。
