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- Title
Are in‐laws substituting or supplementing? Mothers' receipt of support from paternal kin.
- Authors
Whitehead, Ellen M.; Jonet, Taryn N.
- Abstract
Objectives: This study examines the financial and childcare support provided to mothers from paternal kin, as well as whether this support varies based on relationship characteristics of the mother and father, child support provided by the father, and father–child contact. Background: Despite the documented importance of familial support for many mothers of young children, especially single mothers, minimal quantitative research has examined the factors that pattern transfers of support from fathers' family members. Methods: Using data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (n = 4,296), we employ multivariate logistic regression analyses to examine mothers' receipt of financial and childcare support from paternal kin. Results: Results indicate that mothers who report having no relationship with their child's father have a lower probability of receiving support from his family. Mothers with nonresidential fathers are more likely to receive support from the father's kin when the father provides informal or sporadic child support. Conclusion: Fathers occupy a brokering role between mothers and their kin. When a relationship with the father is completely absent, support from his family decreases. Implications: The findings offer insight into the social capital and economic stability of mothers, particularly those with nonresidential fathers.
- Subjects
MOTHERS; FAMILY relations; CHILD support; CHILD care; PARENTS-in-law; FATHER-child relationship; FATHERS; RELATIONSHIP status
- Publication
Family Relations, 2023, Vol 72, Issue 4, p2062
- ISSN
0197-6664
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/fare.12790