Father's Involvement, Child Protection, and Child Subjective Well-being in Migrant Woman Worker Families

Abstract

This study aimed to analyze the effect of father's characteristics, mother characteristics, child characteristics, father's involvement, child protection, and child subjective well-being in migrant woman worker family. The study using designs a cross-sectional study. Location of the research was selected purposively in Pagermaneuh Village, Karang Tengah Village, Tanggeung Village, Margaluyu Village from Tanggeung Sub-district and Pasir Dalem Village from Kadupandak Sub-district, Cianjur Regency, West Java Province, Indonesia. Sample of this research were 75 fathers' and 75 children from intact family, whose is mother left overseas and at least has been a migrant woman worker for 6 months. The results show that father's involvement is in medium category, child protection is in high category, child subjective well-being is in medium category. The child characteristic has a significant negative direct effect to fathers' involvement. The child characteristic has a significant negative direct effect to child subjective well-being. The child characteristic has a significant negative indirect to child protection through the father's involvement. Fathers' involvement has a significant positive direct effect to child protection.