To fully understand children’s lives, it is very important to have information from mothers or fathers who live apart from their child’s other parent. This applies whatever the relationship between the parents, and whatever involvement they have with their baby.
Where we have both parents’ names and addresses from birth records, we will contact each parent separately to invite them to take part. The parent who lives with their baby will be contacted first, and the parent that lives in a different household to their baby will be invited a few months later if the first parent chooses to take part.
Where we only have one parent’s name and address, we will ask them for the other parent’s contact details, which they may give if they wish. These details will only be used to contact the other parent to invite them to take part in this study.
Each parent will be interviewed separately. Your participation and your survey responses will be kept completely confidential. This means we will not tell your baby’s other parent whether you have taken part, about any of the responses you provide, or about your circumstances, including your address.