{"id":1714,"date":"2010-06-17T20:52:41","date_gmt":"2010-06-18T02:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/crawler\/?p=1714"},"modified":"2010-06-17T20:55:48","modified_gmt":"2010-06-18T02:55:48","slug":"deadbeats-no-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2010\/06\/17\/deadbeats-no-more\/","title":{"rendered":"deadbeats no more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"img-link\" title=\"Creative Commons licensed photo by Sweet Flour Bake Shop on flickr.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/36857037@N06\/4680027278\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4001\/4680027278_c8a951a64f_m.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Sweet Flour Father's Day Cookiegram\" \/><\/a>Sociologists have found good news just in time for Fathers Day: nonresident fathers are spending more time with their kids in recent years. According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/lifestyle\/2010\/06\/17\/2010-06-17_deadbeat_dads_on_the_decline_more_nonresident_fathers_report_regular_contact_wit.html\">New York Daily News<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Deadbeat dads are scarcer than ever these days, which is good news for the 50% of American kids who won\u2019t live with their father for part of their childhood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are fathers that are very involved,\u201d Pennsylvania State University sociologist and demographer Valarie King told USA Today. \u201cThere are some that are not. We have this image of the nonresident dad, and for some, that\u2019s the deadbeat dad.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The amount of time nonresident dads spend with their children has increased over the past several decades.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When Penn State sociologist and demographer Paul Amato researched changes in nonresident father-child contact over the past 30 years, he found substantial increases in the amount of contact. The percentage of fathers who reported no contact with their children went from 37% in 1976 to 29% in 2002.<\/p>\n<p>Amato, whose work was published in the journal Demography, learned that nonresident dads\u2019 involvement in their kids\u2019 lives varied. Some 38% were highly involved, but 32% were rarely involved. The highly involved dads tended to have kids who were older at the time of the breakup. They were likely to have been married at one time and to have paid child support.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How well fathers and mothers get along can be a significant factor in the level of nonresident father involvement.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Perhaps the best predictor of whether a dad will stay involved, according to Philip Cowan, professor emeritus of psychology at the University of California Berkeley, is if he gets along with the mother.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey don\u2019t have to love each other or like each other,\u201d Cowan told USA Today. \u201cBut they do need to co-parent and collaborate.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sociologists have found good news just in time for Fathers Day: nonresident fathers are spending more time with their kids in recent years. According to the New York Daily News: Deadbeat dads are scarcer than ever these days, which is good news for the 50% of American kids who won\u2019t live with their father for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":335,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39074],"tags":[35,70,320,957,117],"class_list":["post-1714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sightings","tag-children","tag-family","tag-marriage","tag-time","tag-trends"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1714"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1716,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714\/revisions\/1716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}