Fathers' Paternity Leave-Taking and Children's Perceptions of Father-Child Relationships in the United States.

ABSTRACT: Paternity leave-taking is believed to benefit children by encouraging father-child bonding after a birth and enabling commitments to fathers' engagement. Yet, no known U.S. studies have directly focused on the associations between paternity leave-taking and children's reports of father-child relationships. Understanding the potential consequences of paternity leave-taking in the United States is particularly important given the lack of a national paid parental leave policy. The present study uses five waves of data on 1,319 families, largely socioeconomically disadvantaged, from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study to analyze the associations between paternity leave-taking and 9-year-old children's reports of their father-child relationships. We also assess the extent to which th

SUBMITTER: Petts RJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7030161 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature