Abstract
This study aimed to examine the relationship between mothers’ cognition of fathers’ parenting time following divorce; it also assessed the effects of mothers’ social support and assessment of their children’s intentions and condition. 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 mothers’ cognition of fathers’ parenting time, hierarchical multiple regression analysis showed that “concerns about their own safety and the safety of their children” led to restriction of a father’s parenting time only when a mother’s social support was low. In addition, “concerns about remarriage” decreased the facilitation of a 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 condition, as well as implications for practice, were discussed.
https://ror.org/0445phv87 
