. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jan 23.

Published in final edited form as: Demography. 2017 Jun;54(3):861–886. doi: 10.1007/s13524-017-0571-5

Table 2.

Means of mother-reported father involvement and explanatory variables, by relationship history (measured between baseline and five-year surveys)

	Relationship Churning	Stably Together	Stably Broken Up	Repartnered
Dependent Variables
Mother-reported contact with child in past 30 days (y9) (%)	84.4	96.4^***	82.5	83.3
Mother-reported shared responsibility in parenting (y9)	1.900	3.210^***	1.719^**	1.406^***
Mother-reported cooperation in parenting (y9)	2.624	3.607^***	2.471^†	2.155^***
Explanatory Variables
Mother-reported relationship quality (y9)	2.382	3.725^***	2.218^*	1.974^***
Mother repartnered (y9) (%)	38.5	8.9^***	40.0	66.4^***
Mother childbearing with new partner (y9) (%)	16.3	2.9^***	17.0	36.2^***
Father-reported relationship quality (y9)	2.777	3.894^***	2.753	2.452^***
Father repartnered (y9) (%)	16.9	3.7^***	20.5	28.1^***
Father childbearing with new partner (y9) (%)	33.8	8.6^***	33.6	47.3^***
N	455	1,201	405	771

Notes: y9 measured at nine-year survey. Asterisks/dagger indicate statistically significant differences between relationship churning group and other groups.

^†

p < .10;

p < .05;

^**

p < .01;

^***

p < .001