Want to Paint a Happy Future for Your Children? Start Drawing the Line Today.Boundaries with Kids will help you: Recognize the boundary issues underlying child behavior problems, Set boundaries and establish consequences with your kids, Get out of the "nagging" trap, Stop controlling your kids--and instead help them develop self-control, Apply the ten laws of boundaries to parenting, and Take six practical steps for implementing boundaries with your kids. One of the most loving things you can do for your children is set firm boundaries with them. Boundaries with Kids will help you raise your…
Every parent wants his or her daughter to become strong, confident, happy, healthy, and independent. Alarming statistics have shown the plunge in self-esteem that many girls experience around age 10 to 12. How can parents, teachers, and other role models prepare girls to become strong and creative as they grow?In Raising Strong Daughters, Gadeberg provides a variety of creative ideas to teach girls of any age the inner confidence, strength, and know-how needed to get ready for life. Each theme-focused chapter is brimming with practical hands-on ideas that can be woven into everyday…
The mission of this book is to give fathers short, practical ideas to build quality relationships with their 8- 12-year-old daughters. No other man will influence your little girl like you, Dad. The relationship you build with her will shape the very course of her life. And these precious years between ages eight and twelve are the time to forge bonds of care and nurturance that will weather your daughter's potentially stormy teenage years and give her the enduring legacy of a father's love. But how do you build that kind of close-knit relationship? "I wanted to provide a can't-miss,…
Tougher penalties for juvenile offenders and the disproportionate imprisonment of African American and Latino young men have resulted in an increase in the number of incarcerated fathers. Approximately one-quarter of all young men sentenced to juvenile facilities in California are fathers, a trend that has serious implications for the families of the men and society as incarceration reduces family income and interferes in a father's ability to provide emotional support to his children and their mother. This study examined the issues of fathering from prison, young fathers as parolees, and the…
Studies about the effects of divorce on children have found that children who are separated from their father are more likely than children in two-parent families to have problems in psychosocial development, behavior, school performance, employment, and future interpersonal relationships. Conversely, the research indicates that positive relationships with nonresidential fathers who are actively involved in the lives of their children promote positive adjustment. This chapter suggests that postdivorce child custody agreements should seek to enhance the involvement of the nonresidential parent…
Economic theory can be used to explain family behavior and trends in marriage, divorce, births, and child development. This chapter provides an economic perspective to explore questions about why some nonresident fathers withhold financial and emotional support from their children. The economic model includes variables such as the level of consumption by each parent and child, shared and private goods, the amount spent on children, parental cooperation, and differences in spending of fathers and mothers. The text summarizes evidence about trends in child support and visitation and the ability…
This chapter reviews trends in nonmarital childbearing and explores the role of public policies in promoting the involvement of fathers in the lives of children born outside of marriage. Emphasis is placed on fragile families, defined as unmarried couples, cohabiting or living separately, who are raising a child together. These families are considered fragile because of the unstable nature of the parents' relationship and risk for poverty. Baseline data collected for the Fragile Families and Child Well-being Study revealed that the majority of unmarried parents were romantically involved when…
The Fatherhood Research Initiative identified a need for information about fathers who were low-income, not living with their children, or never married. Existing policies address child support and marriage, but do not recognize the other types of paternal support that are important for well-being. Three large national studies of fathers of young children have developed a consortium to share strategies for research design, measures, and concepts involved in the examination of the role of fathers. All three of the studies are surveying fathers directly and including men who are low-income,…
Fathers continue to have an important role in child development, despite the changes in family structure that have occurred in recent years. This book provides a psychoanalytic perspective of fatherhood and concludes that children and their mothers need the care and support of fathers. Written by practitioners and academicians, the chapters apply psychoanalytic theory and discuss clinical considerations about father development, the role of grandfathers, missing fathers, adoptive fathers, and sexual identity development. The effects of loss on children also are addressed. The text explores…
A review of data from the United States Census and other sources reveals that the trend in father absence is stabilizing. Currently, approximately one-third of all children in the United States do not live with their biological father and 27 percent of children live in single-parent homes. Thirty-three percent of births in the year 2000 were to unwed parents. Almost half of the children who do not live with their father have not seen their father in at least one year. Fatherlessness is related to child poverty, drug use, educational problems, and health and behavioral problems. Children…
