title: Keeping in touch with children after separation: the point of view of fathers.
abstract: The amount of father-child contact after separation is closely linked to the probability that father 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.
authors.affiliation: Centre interuniversitaire d'études démographiques, Institut national de la recherche scientifique/Université de Montréal.
authors.forename: Céline
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Le Bourdais
authors.forename: Heather
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Juby
authors.forename: Nicole
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Marcil-Gratton
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002655:Child Custody; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004243:Divorce; D005219:Father-Child Relations; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D013997:Time Factors