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Whether and how child support arrangements are made can be complicated by relationship dissolution, parental repartnering, and co\u2010parents' relationship quality. Prior studies suggest relationship dynamics shape the financial support that noncustodial parents provide to custodial parents. We examine how custodial parents balance relationships and finances in their approaches to pursuing formal and informal child support.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Method<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>We used inductive and deductive coding methods to analyze interviews completed with 58 mothers approximately every year over the first 4\u2009years of their children's lives. Mothers were part of the Baby's First Years study, a U.S.\u2010based randomized controlled trial assessing the impacts of additional income on child development.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Mothers' decision\u2010making around child support and family relationships were interconnected and dynamic across children's early years. Mothers' interest in and willingness to make financial demands of fathers was complicated by their relational goals of maintaining or limiting fathers' contact with their families.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Child support policy exclusively focuses on financial resource provision, but custodial mothers do not.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Implications<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Policymakers and scholars should consider the ways in which child support policies may not align with custodial parents' relational goals.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1111\/jomf.13099","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,3,20]],"date-time":"2025-03-20T03:02:21Z","timestamp":1742439741000},"page":"1902-1924","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["\u201cI don't try to seek him out\u201d: Views of child support over time"],"prefix":"10.1111","volume":"87","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6570-9534","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Grace","family":"Landrum\u2010Hall","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Sandra Rosenbaum School of Social Work University of Wisconsin, Madison  Madison Wisconsin USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2142-5097","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Sarah","family":"Halpern\u2010Meekin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Human Ecology &amp; LaFollette School of Public Affairs University of Wisconsin, Madison  Madison Wisconsin USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9983-7147","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Maretta Darnell","family":"McDonald","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Sociology Virginia Tech  Blacksburg Virginia USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"311","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,3,19]]},"reference":[{"key":"e_1_2_10_2_1","unstructured":"Annie E.Casey Foundation. 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