Paternal Participation and Children's Well-Being After Marital Dissolution

• NCJ Number: 107716
• Journal: American Sociological Review Volume: 52 Issue: 5 Dated: (October 1987) Pages: 695-700
• Author(s): F F Furstenberg; S P Morgan; P D Allison
• Date Published: 1987
• Length: 6 pages
• Grant Number(s): SES-8421070
• Sponsoring Agency: National Science Foundation
• Publication Format: Article
• Publication Type: Report (Study/Research)
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

Using a nationally representative sample of children aged 11-16 who had experienced their parents' marital dissolution, we examine the influence of paternal involvement on the child's well-being.

Abstract

For measures of academic difficulty, problem behavior, and phychological distress, there is little evidence that paternal involvement had either harmful or beneficial effects. Paternal economic support reduced somewhat the likelihood of problem behavior. Frequency of visitation and closeness of relationship to father showed no consistent influence on the available measures of child well-being. (Author abstract)