Publication

This study aimed to examine the relationship between mother's cognition of father's parenting time following divorce; it also assessed the effects of mothers’ social support and assessment of their children’s intentions and status. A questionnaire survey was conducted with divorced mothers living with their children in the fourth grade of elementary school through the third grade of junior high school. A total of 167 mothers were included in the analysis. Regarding mother's cognition of father's parenting time, hierarchical multiple regression analysis showed that “concerns about their own safety and the safety of their children” led to restriction of father's parenting time only when their social support was low. In addition, “concerns about remarriage” decreased the facilitation of father's parenting time only when the mother’s assessment of the child’s intentions and condition was low. The importance of social support for mothers and their assessment of children’s intentions and conditions, as well as implications for practice, were discussed.