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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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Willing, Able, Ready: Basics and Policy Implications of Readiness as a Key Component For Implementation of Evidence-Based Interventions.
The policy brief explores readiness as a necessary component for implementing evidence-based interventions (EBIs). It begins by identifying three components of readiness that organizations should address when implementing new EBIs: motivation of people within the organization to adopt new EBIs,…
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Parental Imprisonment, the Prison Boom, and the Concentration of Childhood Disadvantage.
Although much research has focused on how imprisonment transforms the life course of disadvantaged black men, researchers have paid little attention to how parental imprisonment alters the social experience of childhood. This article estimates the risk of parental imprisonment by age 14 for black and white children born in 1978 and 1990. This article also estimates the risk of parental imprisonment for children whose parents did not fi nish high school, fi nished high school only, or attended college. Results show the following: (1) 1 in 40 white children born in 1978 and 1 in 25 white…
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Linking mother-father differences in parenting to a typology of family parenting styles and adolescent outcomes.
Using longitudinal data from a sample of 451 families with a child in eighth grade at the time of study, three research questions have been addressed: First, the study explored the ways in which mothers and fathers differ with regard to four parenting styles. Second, the study examined the manner in which individual parenting styles combine to form family parenting styles. Finally, the study investigated the extent to which these various styles are related to delinquency, depression, and school commitment for adolescents. Regardless of reporter, the most common family parenting styles are…

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