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Father—Child Contact After Separation

The Influence of Living Arrangements

McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Céline Le Bourdais

McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, celine.lebourdais{at}mcgill.ca

Following divorce or separation, father—child contact is deemed an important influence on child development. Previous research has explored the impact of sociodemographic and attitudinal factors on the amount of contact between fathers and their children following a union dissolution. This article revisits this important question using fathers' reports on a sample of 859 children from newly available survey data. Multilevel random intercept models are used to reassess the influence of child- and father-level factors on the amount of reported contact. Results show that the amount of father—child contact following separation is the product of several factors such as the father's income, conjugal/parental trajectory, and level of satisfaction with existing arrangements.

Key Words: father—child contact • separated fathers • custody agreements • parental attitudes • multilevel modeling

This version was published on May 1, 2009

Journal of Family Issues, Vol. 30, No. 5, 623-652 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/0192513X08331023


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