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The NRFC Library is a collection of materials to build a knowledge base around fathers, fatherhood, and operating a Responsible Fatherhood program. It also houses all resources created by the NRFC, including fact sheets, PSAs, and past webinars.

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Testing the father–child activation relationship theory: A replication study with low-income unmarried parents.

The current study aims to replicate and extend previous research on father–child activation relationship theory, which suggests that fathers engage in stimulating, challenging, and directive parenting behaviors that are likely to benefit children’s development. A large and racially diverse…

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Positive Parenting: Tips for Fathering.

Fathers give tips about how they care for and relate to their children aged birth to 3 years.

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Supporting the Parenting of Battering Men: Issues and Dilemmas.

This paper explains the rationale of interventions designed to support the relationship between children and their battering fathers. Traditional domestic violence services have focused primarily on treating battered women and their children, neglecting to hold fathers accountable for the effects of their abuse. The involvement of abusive men in the welfare of their children forces them to take responsibility. Interventions also help children to resolve their feelings of conflicting loyalties to their parents. Children's groups are often effective in helping children understand the nature of…

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A summary of the town meeting on fathering and male fertility.

On March 27, 1996, the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics sponsored a Town Meeting on Fathering and Male Fertility, the first in a series of related federal meetings and activities to develop better data on fathers. The Forum, consisting of the major federal statistical agencies, fosters coordination, collaboration, and integration of federal collection of data on child and family issues and federal reporting of child and family conditions. At the Town Meeting, invited speakers presented ideas for improving the federal statistical system's capacity to gather data on…

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