Repartnering Following Divorce: Implications for Older Fathers' Relations With Their Adult Children

This study examined the implications of post-divorce fathers' new unions and additional (step)children for two aspects of older fathers' relations with adult children born from a prior relationship: frequency of social contact and fathers' financial transfers. Data from multiple waves...

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Published inJournal of marriage and family Vol. 75; no. 3; pp. 697 - 712
Main Author Noël-Miller, Claire M.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Hoboken, USA Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.06.2013
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Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Subjects
Adult Children
Adults
aging
Aging (Individuals)
Children
Cohabitation
Collaboration
Data analysis
Divorce
Estimation
Fathers
financial transfer
Health
intergenerational contact
Intergenerational relationships
Multilevel models
Of General Interest
Older parents
Parent-child relations
Remarriage
Retirement
Sexuality. Marriage. Family relations
Single fathers
Social Contact
Sociology
Sociology of the family. Age groups
Stepchildren
Stepfamilies
Unions
Intergenerational relation
Divorce
Finance
Young adult
Father
Father-child relationship
Stephousehold
Remarriage
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Summary:This study examined the implications of post-divorce fathers' new unions and additional (step)children for two aspects of older fathers' relations with adult children born from a prior relationship: frequency of social contact and fathers' financial transfers. Data from multiple waves of the Health and Retirement Study (N = 13,017 observations on 4,997 adult children belonging to 1,917 ever-divorced fathers) were used to estimate multilevel models. The results indicated that divorced fathers who go on to form a new union have weaker relations with adult children from a prior union than their post-divorce counterparts who remain single. This finding partly reflects the detrimental effects of repartnered older fathers' new biological children and stepchildren. There is no difference between older remarried and cohabiting fathers' intergenerational ties. Moreover, fathers' additional biological children and stepchildren have similarly negative effects on fathers' relations with adult children from a previous union.
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ISSN:0022-2445
1741-3737
DOI:10.1111/jomf.12034