Table 7.
Multinomial logistic regression analysis of contact with formerly incarcerated fathers for all biological and social children: Boston Reentry Study
| Occasional Contact (1) |
Weekly Contact (2) |
Coresidence (3) |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Constant | –2.070* (2.02) | –3.665** (3.53) | –3.322 (1.92) |
| Life Conditions After Prison Release | |||
| Unstable housing | –0.123 (0.37) | –0.712* (2.53) | –1.130* (2.26) |
| Reincarcerated | –1.817* (2.21) | –2.221** (3.10) | –14.979** (18.01) |
| Income | –0.005 (0.33) | 0.012 (1.04) | 0.017 (1.14) |
| Demographics of Incarcerated Parent | |||
| Biological child | 0.824* (2.05) | 1.515** (4.08) | –0.382 (0.74) |
| Number of partners | –0.105 (0.56) | –0.006 (0.03) | –0.132 (0.33) |
| Quality of Family Relationships | |||
| Contact in prison | 0.936* (2.54) | 2.671** (6.29) | 4.389** (3.42) |
| Pre-arrest support | 0.147 (1.28) | 0.437** (3.56) | 0.430* (2.22) |
| Crime and Drug Use | |||
| Using drugs/alcohol | 0.563 (1.44) | 0.213 (0.58) | –0.689 (1.35) |
| Arrested | 0.868 (1.71) | 0.326 (0.62) | –0.107 (–0.13) |
| Restraining order | 0.044 (0.12) | 0.296 (0.89) | –1.131* (2.30) |
| Pseudo-R2 | .258 | ||
| Number of Children | 214 | ||
| Number of Child-Waves | 753 |
Notes: Regressions also control for child’s age, race and ethnicity, and fixed effects for each survey wave. Standard errors are clustered by child. Absolute z statistics are shown in parentheses.
*
p < .05;
**
p < .01