Non Resident Fathers, 1996

The project aimed to investigate the circumstances of non resident fathers in Britain. This study, which consisted of a sample survey and two qualitative surveys of sub-samples, covered the socio-economic circumstances, age, employment, income, marital status, living arrangements and housing (only the sample survey is held at the Data Archive). The study explored respondents' physical, financial and affective relationships with their former partner and non resident children, and also their feelings about their rights and responsibilities as fathers and the opportunities and constraints surrounding their relationship. The study also sought to explain respondents' level of contact with their children and the odds of paying child support in relation to their circumstances and present relationships.