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Will Johnny See Daddy This Week?

An Empirical Test of Three Theoretical Perspectives of Postdivorce Contact

University of Washington

The purpose of this analysis is to examine the determinants of postdivorce contact between nonresidential fathers and their children after marital disruption and to evaluate the relative merit of three sociological perspectives on postdivorce contact: (a) social parenting, (b) marital-involvement parenting, and (c) socioeconomic-advantaged parenting. The results suggest that fathers have limited contact with their children postdivorce that decreases over time. The fathers' socioeconomic characteristics appear to temper this reduction in fathers' involvement with their children after marital disruption. As fathers develop new relationships postdivorce, their level of involvement with their children is reduced, whereas mothers' remarriage only affects the probability of fathers' having weekly contact with their children. For the most part, characteristics of the children, their mothers, and the former marriages, which ordinarily are positively associated with paternal involvement during marriage, did not affect the level of postdivorce visitation. Noncustodial fathers, however, were more likely to see young children every week than were fathers of school-age children.

Journal of Family Issues, Vol. 17, No. 4, 466-494 (1996)
DOI: 10.1177/019251396017004003


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