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Nonresident Father Involvement With Children and Divorced Women's Likelihood of Remarriage
Author(s) -
McNamee Catherine B.,
Amato Paul,
King Valarie
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of marriage and family
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.578
H-Index - 159
eISSN - 1741-3737
pISSN - 0022-2445
DOI - 10.1111/jomf.12118
Subject(s) - remarriage , psychology , affect (linguistics) , national longitudinal surveys , child support , developmental psychology , longitudinal study , demography , demographic economics , medicine , sociology , economics , political science , communication , pathology , anthropology , law
Although remarriage is a relatively common transition, little is known about how nonresident fathers affect divorced mothers' entry into remarriage. Using the 1979–2010 rounds of the National Longitudinal Study of Youth 1979, the authors examined the likelihood of remarriage for divorced mothers ( N = 882) by nonresident father contact with children and payment of child support. The findings suggest that maternal remarriage is positively associated with nonresident father contact but not related to receiving child support.