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Publication Date: 2011-Jun
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Coparenting and Relationship Quality Effects on Father Engagement: Variations by Residence, Romance
Fagan, Jay; Palkovitz, Rob
Journal of Marriage and Family, v73 n3 p637-653 Jun 2011
We focused on coparenting support, partner relationship quality, and father engagement in families with young children that did not change structurally over 4 years of participation in the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing study (N = 1,756). There was a significantly stronger and more robust positive association between fathers' perceived coparenting support at age 1 and father engagement at age 3 among nonresidential nonromantic parents compared with residential (married or cohabiting) and nonresidential romantic parents. There was a significantly stronger and positive association between relationship quality at age 1 and father engagement at age 3 among nonresidential nonromantic parents compared with residential parents. The findings emphasize the importance of considering both family structure and romantic involvement contexts of fathering when tracking father engagement over time.
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Family Structure, Fathers, Parent Participation, Correlation, Intimacy, Interpersonal Relationship
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