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JOURNAL OF FAMILY AND ECONOMIC ISSUES
Volume 35, Issue 4, Pages 452-463Publisher
SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG
DOI: 10.1007/s10834-013-9385-9
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Fathers; Financial support; Children; Kin; South Africa
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- ESRC [ES/K007394/1, ES/J021202/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- NICHD NIH HHS [R24 HD041041] Funding Source: Medline
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We used data from the Birth to Twenty Cohort study to understand children's receipt of financial support from their fathers in a low income, Black community in urban South Africa. Specifically, we (1) described fathers' financial support over the life course of children; (2) estimated survival probabilities of receiving support for all children and not receiving support for children who experienced a parental union dissolution; and (3) identified factors that explained variation in the receipt of support after a union dissolution. Results suggest that most children received full or partial support throughout the life course. Furthermore, a high proportion of children received support after a union dissolution with much of the variation driven by pre-dissolution support, father's education and the presence of extended kin.
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