ArticleJournal of marriage and the family2020
Fatherhood in Complex Families: Ties between Adult Children, Biological Fathers, and Stepfathers.
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- Whose children matter? Multigenerational family complexity and late-life divorce in Sweden.European journal of ageing · 2026Article
- The role of mating effort and co-residence history in step-grandparental investment.Evolutionary human sciences · 2024Article
- Parental Investment by Birth Fathers and Stepfathers : Roles of Mating Effort and Childhood Co-residence Duration.Human nature (Hawthorne, N.Y.) · 2023Article
- What Decides the Well-Being of the Relationship between Parents and Adolescents.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Review
- Sexual Selection and the Treatment of Predecessors' Progeny by Replacement Mates.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Review
- Father-Child Conflict and Chinese Adolescent Depression: A Moderated Mediation Model.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Kinship Practices Among Alternative Family Forms in Western Industrialized Societies.Journal of marriage and the family · 2020Article
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Abstract
objectiveWe examined adult children's concurrent ties to biological fathers and stepfathers. Three mechanisms potentially determining the strength of father-child and stepfather-child ties were tested, namely, investment, interdependence, and substitution.
backgroundAs most research studied father-child and stepfather-child ties separately, our knowledge about the potential substitution dynamics between the two ties is limited.
methodWe used the Dutch Ouders en Kinderen in Nederland (OKiN) survey, which features an oversample of individuals, aged 25-45, who did not live with their two biological parents when growing up (
resultsOur findings suggested that the quality of the two father-child ties are interrelated, that is, we found a small substitution effect (i.e., adult children were more likely to "choose" one father in the presence of both). We also found that the quality of father-child and stepfather-child ties was associated with the length of the parental investment period (i.e., investment). In addition, bonds with stepfathers were positively associated with the attitudes of the two fathers toward each other, while bonds with both fathers were associated with the quality of the tie between the biological parents (i.e., interdependence).
conclusionOverall, the weak substitution dynamic that we found implied that a poor tie with one father can partly be substituted by being close to another father.
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