'Swapping' families: Serial parenting and economic support for children
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Families are often likely to be spread over more than one household, raising questions about the well-being of children and the mean of fatherhood. Furstenberg's argument that fathers shift allegiances from nonresident children to new residential children when they form new families, was tested in terms of child-support transfers to nonresidential children. Fathers were found to swap families, if the trade-off is between new biological children within fathers' households and existing biological children residing outside fathers' households.
Publication Name: Journal of Marriage and the Family
Subject: Family and marriage
ISSN: 0022-2445
Year: 2000
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Parental cohabitation and children's economic well-being
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Children's economic well-being in cohabiting families differs from that in other families. Children living with cohabiting couples are economically less advantaged than children within married-couple families as the median household income in in married-couple families is higher. Findings show that children are economically better with cohabiting couples than with single-mother families. However, the income from an unmarried partner is unreliable due to the instability of cohabiting couples. Cohabiting unions resulting in marriage lead to better economic security for children.
Publication Name: Journal of Marriage and the Family
Subject: Family and marriage
ISSN: 0022-2445
Year: 1996
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Nonresident parents' characteristics and child support
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Researchers investigated the viability of relying solely on the resident parent's representation of the nonresident parent's economic links with their child in analyses of child support. Investigation of parents who had been cohabiting couples revealed that there was a statistically insignificant difference between the reporting of the two groups on child support payments. However, investigators should obtain information from either the nonresident parent alone, or both the resident and the nonresident parent, to provide the best understanding of levels of child support.
Publication Name: Journal of Marriage and the Family
Subject: Family and marriage
ISSN: 0022-2445
Year: 1997
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