The Effects of Economic Resources on Men's Parental Involvement in Two-Parent Families.

co-parenting;fatherhood;homeownership;wealth;permanent income

Joyner, Jason Daniel ; Dr. Feinian Chen, Committee Member,Dr. Maxine P. Atkinson, Committee Member,Dr. Theodore N. Greenstein, Committee Chair,Dr. Barbara J. Risman, Committee Member,Joyner, Jason Daniel ; Dr. Feinian Chen ; Committee Member ; Dr. Maxine P. Atkinson ; Committee Member ; Dr. Theodore N. Greenstein ; Committee Chair ; Dr. Barbara J. Risman ; Committee Member

University:North Carolina State University

关键词: co-parenting;    fatherhood;    homeownership;    wealth;    permanent income;   

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【 摘 要 】

There are a number of reasons to believe that families' access to economic resources will have effects on men's parental involvement in two-parent families.One view, focused on men's success as family breadwinners, posits that fathers in families that are experiencing economic insecurity will reduce their parental involvement as a means of coping with feelings of failure.An alternate view, focused on families' practical efforts to cope with limited economic resources, argues that the fewer economic resources families have, the more they will make use of fathers' care of children as a means of maximizing their well-being with the resources they have available.Both of these views highlight the importance of the level of economic resources available to families, although they hypothesize effects on fathers' parental involvement that are in opposite directions.In addition, economic resources, as resources, are potentially important indirect influences on families' household division of labor because they can enable or constrain families' consumption behavior, affecting families' ability to manage the demand for fathers' parental involvement.However, little research has been done as of yet to map the potential indirect links between families' economic resources and men's parental involvement that might exist as a result of such consumption, or to identify the specific mediating factors which may be involved.Finally, research on the determinants of men's parental involvement must necessarily address the effects that the ongoing cultural redefinition of fatherhood from breadwinning to co-parenting might have on men's fathering behavior.Yet in the current fatherhood research the question of whether the major determinants of fathers' involvement operate similarly for men who see themselves as "good providers" as for men who view their role in terms of "co-parenting" is largely unaddressed.This dissertation improves our understanding of these issues.The effects of four types of economic resources are modeled for each of the three commonly accepted aspects of father involvement relative to mothers' involvement.In addition, this dissertation maps three potential paths of indirect influence from families' economic resources to fathers' relative parental involvement.The first pathway focuses on families' ability to outsource childcare, thus reducing the demand for fathers' parental involvement relative to mothers'.The second pathway focuses on the effect of families' economic problems on fathers' feelings of success or failure and the resulting impact of these feelings on men's relative involvement.The third pathway explored in this dissertation examines the impact of families' neighborhood context on men's relative father involvement.Given the assumption that families will attempt to reside in the best neighborhoods they can afford to live in, this project examines how the level of social cohesion and the level of risk or hazards in the neighborhood affect men's relative involvement, given men's historical role as family protectors.Finally, this dissertation tests for empirical interaction effects between fathers' fatherhood attitudes and the other determinants of men's involvement, as a way of assessing the degree to which the effects of these other determinants are moderated by men's beliefs about their proper role as a father.The findings of these analyses suggest that the effects of economic resources on men's relative parental involvement are nuanced, depending both upon the specific type of economic resource under consideration the specific aspect of father involvement.The findings also indicate limited support for each of the three paths of influence, although their influence is also specific to a particular aspect of father involvement.In addition, a number of interaction effects were identified which indicate differential effects of key determinants of fathers' involvement depending on the degree to which fathers' attitudes are more traditional or more egalitarian in nature.