Nonresident Fathers' and Grandparents' Early Years Support and Middle Childhood Socio-Emotional Adjustment.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This study investigates how different patterns of nonresident father support for children and mothers in the early years predict middle childhood adjustment, and whether grandparent support has compensating effects.

Background

Nonresident fathers' involvement in children's lives benefits socio-emotional adjustment, but it is unclear whether support directed at children is compromised by interparental tensions, or whether other factors may compensate for weaker patterns of father support.

Method

Latent class analyses identified patterns of nonresident father support for single mothers and their 34-month-old child (None 35%, Low 16%, Moderate 21%, High 28%) and grandparent support (Low 15%, Moderate Maternal 33%, High Maternal 43%, High Maternal and Paternal 9

SUBMITTER: Parkes A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8629113 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature