Maternal Gate Closing and Gate Opening in Postdivorce Families

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AUTOR(ES) Liz Trinder
AFILIAÇÃO(ÕES) Newcastle University
ANO 2008
TIPO Artigo
PERIÓDICO Journal of Family Issues
ISSN 0192-513X
E-ISSN 1552-5481
EDITORA Annual Reviews (United States)
DOI 10.1177/0192513x08315362
CITAÇÕES 6
ADICIONADO EM 2025-08-18
MD5 6ae7fd08350be25afb05eb4cd220fc41

Resumo

This study explores the processes by which custodial mothers can support and inhibit fathers' relationships following divorce and separation. It draws on qualitative interviews with resident mothers and nonresident fathers from 54 separated families, including 22 sets of former couples. The study found that mothers adopt a range of strategies, from proactive gate opening to gate closing, and that these strategies appear influential. Maternal perceptions of paternal competence and child welfare beliefs, parental relationship quality, and parental role bargains were strongly linked to different types of maternal gatekeeping. Informed by systems theory, the interviews of former couples suggest that gate work, whether gate opening or gate closing, can be a dynamic transactional process rather than a linear and unidirectional process running from mothers to fathers.

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