Family rituals in postdivorce families: The role of family structure and relationship quality for parents' and stepparents' attendance at children's birthdays
Objective: To investigate if divorced parents celebrate their children's birthdays with their respective ex-partner and current partner, and whether they do so "jointly" with both. Background: Family rituals like birthday celebrations are important and meaningful events in people's lives, but little is known about who partakes in these in contemporary postdivorce families. Method: We assessed whether divorced parents celebrated their child's birthday together with their ex-partner (i.e., the child’s other biological parent), current partner (i.e., the child’s stepparent), and jointly with both... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Zeitschriftenartikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2023 |
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Schlagwörter: | Soziologie / Anthropologie / Sociology & anthropology / postdivorce parenting / former spouse relations / family practices / doing family / Survey New Families in the Netherlands (wave 2 / NFN / 2015/2016) / Familiensoziologie / Sexualsoziologie / Family Sociology / Sociology of Sexual Behavior / Familie / elterliche Trennung / Ehescheidung / Stiefeltern / Elternschaft / Eltern-Kind-Beziehung / Niederlande / family / parental separation / divorce / step-parents / parenthood / parent-child relationship / Netherlands |
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Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-28773199 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/87626 |
Objective: To investigate if divorced parents celebrate their children's birthdays with their respective ex-partner and current partner, and whether they do so "jointly" with both. Background: Family rituals like birthday celebrations are important and meaningful events in people's lives, but little is known about who partakes in these in contemporary postdivorce families. Method: We assessed whether divorced parents celebrated their child's birthday together with their ex-partner (i.e., the child’s other biological parent), current partner (i.e., the child’s stepparent), and jointly with both. Dutch Data (N=2,451) was analyzed using linear probability models. Results: Most parents celebrated the child's birthday without the ex-partner, but with the current partner. One quarter celebrated with both. The ex-partners' presence was more likely when parents' and their current partners' relationship with the ex-partner was good; and less likely when parents had repartnered and when the ex-partners had sole custody or additional biological or stepchildren. The presence of the current partner was more likely in case of coresidence with the biological parent and when the ex-partner had a new partner; and less likely when the ex-partners had sole custody and when parents' relationship with the ex-partners was good. Conclusion: Child-related family rituals mostly involve the "new" stepparent rather than both biological parents. The effects of relationship quality, co-residence, repartnering, and having additional biological or stepchildren highlight the importance of (step)parents' willingness to interact with each other, structural opportunities for parent-child interactions, and parents' shifting loyalties from their ex-partner to their new family. ; Fragestellung: Wir untersuchen, ob getrennte/geschiedene Eltern die Geburtstage ihrer biologischen Kinder mit ihren Ex-Partner*innen und ihren neuen Partner*innen feiern, und ob sie den Geburtstag zusammen zu dritt feiern. Hintergrund: Familienrituale wie Geburtstagsfeiern ...