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Sano, Yoshie; Richards, Leslie N.; Zvonkovic, Anisa M. – Journal of Family Issues, 2008
Guided by symbolic interactionism, this qualitative study based on interviews with 83 rural mothers investigated mothers' perceptions of nonresident fathers' involvement in low-income families. Contrary to some fathers' claims that mothers "gatekeep" their access to children, the majority of mothers in our study wanted increased father…
Descriptors: Mothers, Rural Areas, Economic Opportunities, Fathers