"I don't try to seek him out": Views of child support over time.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This study examines how mothers with limited incomes think about the relationship between child support, making ends meet, and co-parenting relationships early in children's lives.

Background

Research has documented how formal and informal child support can be important resources for custodial parents and their children. Whether and how child support arrangements are made can be complicated by relationship dissolution, parental repartnering, and co-parents' relationship quality. Prior studies suggest relationship dynamics shape the financial support that non-custodial parents provide to custodial parents. We examine how custodial parents balance relationships and finances in their approaches to pursuing formal and informal child support.

Method

We used induc

SUBMITTER: Landrum G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12456813 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature