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Keeping in Touch with Children After Separation: The Point of View of Fathers

Publication: Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health
January 2002

Abstract

The amount of father-child contact after separation is closely linked to the probability that fathers fulfill their financial obligations towards their children. Determining the factors that encourage this contact is, therefore, crucial to the process of reducing the risk of poverty to which children of separated parents are exposed. Based on data collected from fathers at the 1995 Canadian General Social Survey of the Family, this paper uses multi-level regression analysis to identify factors associated with higher levels of contact between fathers and children, including socio-demographic characteristics of children and fathers, variables associated with attitudes, and fathers' satisfaction with custody and access arrangements.

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La propension des pères à s'acquitter de leurs obligations alimentairers envers leurs enfants après une séparation est étroitement liée à la fréquence des contacts qu'ils maintiennent avec eux. La détermination des facteurs susceptibles d'accroître la fréquence des contacts pères/enfants constitue donc une étape cruciale si l'on veut réduire les risques de pauvreté auxquels sont confrontés les enfants de parents séparés. C'est là l'objectif des auteures de cet article, qui ont recours aux données colligées auprès de pères séparés, interrogés dans l'Enquête sociale générale sur la famille de 1995, pour mener une analyse de régression multiniveaux. L'analyse examine l'effet sur la fréquence des contacts pères/enfants des caractéristiques sociodémographiques des enfants et des pères, des attitudes des pères face à la vie familiale et de leur degré de satisfaction à l'égard des arrangements de garde et des droits de visite.

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cover image Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health
Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health
Volume 21Number S4January 2002
Pages: 109 - 130

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Version of record online: 12 May 2009

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Céline Le Bourdais
Centre interuniversitaire d'études démographiques, Institut national de la recherche scientifique / Université de Montréal
Heather Juby
Centre interuniversitaire d'études démographiques, Institut national de la recherche scientifique / Université de Montréal
Nicole Marcil-Gratton
Centre interuniversitaire d'études démographiques, Institut national de la recherche scientifique / Université de Montréal

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