Children's Perspectives on Their Relationships with Their Nonresident Fathers: Influences, Outcomes and Implications

Autor/inn/en	Dunn, Judy; Cheng, Helen; O'Connor, Thomas G.; Bridges, Laura
Titel	Children's Perspectives on Their Relationships with Their Nonresident Fathers: Influences, Outcomes and Implications
Quelle	In: Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 45 (2004) 3, S.553-566 (14 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0021-9630
DOI	10.1111/j.1469-7610.2004.00245.x
Schlagwörter	Mothers; Conflict; Parent Child Relationship; Fathers; Childhood Attitudes; Adjustment (to Environment); Foreign Countries; Interviews; Mother Attitudes; Correlation; One Parent Family; Family Structure; Early Parenthood; At Risk Persons; Place of Residence; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mother; Mutter; Konflikt; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Ausland; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Mutterliebe; Korrelation; Single parent family; Ein-Eltern-Familie; Familienkonstellation; Familiensystem; Risikogruppe; Wohnort; Großbritannien
Abstract	Background: Children's relationships with their nonresident fathers, and associations between these relationships, children's relationships with mothers and stepfathers, and the children's adjustment were studied in 162 children from single-parent and stepfamilies, selected from a representative community sample in the UK, studied at 2 time points two years apart. Method: Children were interviewed about their relationships with their nonresident fathers, mothers and stepfathers; mothers reported on children's adjustment, and other family variables. Results: Positive child-nonresident father relationships were correlated with (a) contact between child and father, (b) the quality of the mother-child relationship, and (c) the frequency of contact between the mother and her former partner. Conflict between child and father was correlated with conflict between child and mother, and child and stepfather. Child-nonresident father contact and relationships were stable over 2 years, and related to children's adjustment; these associations were stronger for children from single-parent families than for those with stepfathers, and for those whose mothers had been first pregnant as teenagers. Conclusions: Associations between the quality of children's relationships with nonresident fathers and their adjustment need to be considered within the framework of the larger family system; child-father relationships are particularly important for children from "high risk" families. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Wiley-Blackwell. 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148. Tel: 800-835-6770; Tel: 781-388-8598; Fax: 781-388-8232; e-mail: cs-journals@wiley.com; Web site: http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10