Child support and father-child contact
Testing reciprocal pathways
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10970596 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lenna Nepomnyaschy (0000-0002-1717-8994, Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University School of Social Work, 1255 Amsterdam Avenue, Room 718, New York, NY 10027, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 93-112 |
| Publication date | 2007-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Demography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0070-3370 • E-ISSN: 1533-7790 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/dem.2007.0008 |
| PMID | 17461338 |
| OpenAlex | W1964060294 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 98 |
| References cited | 33 |
I use three waves of panel data to examine the relationship between child support payments and fathers’ contact with their nonmarital children. I disaggregate support into fathers’ formal and informal payments and incorporate cross-lagged effects models to identify the direction of causality between payments and contact. After including the behavior from the prior wave (lagged term) and a rich set of family characteristics, I find a marginally significant effect of paying formally at Time 1 on the likelihood of contact at Time 2 but no effect of contact at Time 1 on formal payments at Time 2. In the first examination of the relationship between informal support and father-child contact, I find a strong, positive reciprocal relationship between the likelihood and frequency of father-child contact and the likelihood and amount of informal support, with slightly stronger and more consistent effects of contact on payments than of payments on contact
Developmental psychology · Reciprocal · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics · Family Dynamics and Relationships · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 98 |
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| Citations per year | 5,16 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2025 (19) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 96 |