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Author: Amato, Paul R.
Resulting in 4 citations.
1. Amato, Paul R.
Meyers, Catherine E.
Emery, Robert E.
Changes in Nonresident Father-Child Contact from 1976 to 2002
Family Relations 58,1 (February 2009): 41-53.
Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1741-3729.2008.00533.x/abstract
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79
Publisher: National Council on Family Relations
Keyword(s): Child Support; Fathers and Children; Fathers, Absence; Fathers, Involvement; Parental Influences; Parental Marital Status; Parents, Non-Custodial

To study changes in nonresident father contact since the 1970s, we pooled data from 4 national surveys: the National Survey of Children (1976), the National Survey of Families and Households (1987 - 1988), the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (1996), and the National Survey of America's Families (2002). On the basis of mothers' reports, levels of contact rose significantly across surveys. Paying child support and having a nonmarital birth were strongly related to contact frequency. The increase in contact may be beneficial in general but problematic if it occurs within the context of hostile interparental relationships. Because nonresident fathers are having more contact with their children now than in the past, an increasing need exists for practitioners to help parents find ways to separate their former romantic roles from their ongoing parental roles and to develop at least minimally cooperative coparental relationships. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.
Bibliography Citation
Amato, Paul R., Catherine E. Meyers and Robert E. Emery. "Changes in Nonresident Father-Child Contact from 1976 to 2002." Family Relations 58,1 (February 2009): 41-53.
2. Cheadle, Jacob E.
Amato, Paul R.
King, Valarie
Patterns of Nonresident Father Contact
Demography 47,1 (February 2010): 206-225.
Also: http://www.springerlink.com/content/a818107v1h6tj831/
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79
Publisher: Population Association of America
Keyword(s): Canadian National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY); Child Care; Child Support; Children, Well-Being; Cohabitation; Fathers, Absence; Fathers, Involvement; Marriage; Modeling, Growth Curve/Latent Trajectory Analysis; Mothers, Education; Parent-Child Interaction

Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher.

We used the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 cohort (NLSY79) from 1979 to 2002 and the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (CNLSY) from 1986 to 2002 to describe the number, shape, and population frequencies of U.S. nonresident father contact trajectories over a 14-year period using growth mixture models. The resulting four-category classification indicated that nonresident father involvement is not adequately characterized by a single population with a monotonic pattern of declining contact over time. Contrary to expectations, about two-thirds of fathers were consistently either highly involved or rarely involved in their children's lives. Only one group, constituting approximately 23% of fathers, exhibited a clear pattern of declining contact. In addition, a small group of fathers (8%) displayed a pattern of increasing contact. A variety of variables differentiated between these groups, including the child's age at father-child separation, whether the child was born within marriage, the mother's education, the mother's age at birth, whether the father pays child support regularly, and the geographical distance between fathers and children. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Bibliography Citation
Cheadle, Jacob E., Paul R. Amato and Valarie King. "Patterns of Nonresident Father Contact." Demography 47,1 (February 2010): 206-225.
3. McNamee, Catherine
Amato, Paul R.
Nonresident Father Involvement with Children and Divorced Women’s Likelihood of Remarriage
Presented: Boston MA, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, May 2014
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Population Association of America
Keyword(s): Child Support; Divorce; Fathers, Absence; Remarriage

Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher.

Although remarriage is a relatively common transition, we know little about how nonresident fathers affect divorced mothers’ entry into remarriage. Using the 1979-2010 rounds of the National Longitudinal Study of Youth 1979, we examined the likelihood of remarriage for divorced mothers (n=882) by nonresident father contact with children and payment of child support. The findings suggest that maternal remarriage is positively associated with nonresident father contact but not related to receiving child support.
Bibliography Citation
McNamee, Catherine and Paul R. Amato. "Nonresident Father Involvement with Children and Divorced Women’s Likelihood of Remarriage." Presented: Boston MA, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, May 2014.
4. McNamee, Catherine
Amato, Paul R.
King, Valarie
Nonresident Father Involvement with Children and Divorced Women's Likelihood of Remarriage
Journal of Marriage and Family 76,4 (August 2014): 862-874.
Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jomf.12118/abstract
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing, Inc. => Wiley Online
Keyword(s): Child Support; Divorce; Fathers, Absence; Fathers, Involvement; Mothers; Remarriage

Although remarriage is a relatively common transition, little is known about how nonresident fathers affect divorced mothers' entry into remarriage. Using the 1979–2010 rounds of the National Longitudinal Study of Youth 1979, the authors examined the likelihood of remarriage for divorced mothers (N = 882) by nonresident father contact with children and payment of child support. The findings suggest that maternal remarriage is positively associated with nonresident father contact but not related to receiving child support.
Bibliography Citation
McNamee, Catherine, Paul R. Amato and Valarie King. "Nonresident Father Involvement with Children and Divorced Women's Likelihood of Remarriage." Journal of Marriage and Family 76,4 (August 2014): 862-874.