Abstract
This study uses time diary data from the Child Development Supplement of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to examine patterns in young school-age (6-12 years) children’s time involvement with parents in nontraditional families versus first married biological parent families. Our results reveal that: (a) children’s involvement levels with mothers do not vary by family type but (b) children’s involvement levels with stepfathers (in either first marriages or remarriages) are lower than their involvement levels with biological fathers in first marriages. Among remarried stepfather families, children’s lower levels of involvement with fathers are explained by mothers’ disapproval of informal unions.
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