Two short activities that challenge dads to think about their relationship with their own father and its impact on them as fathers themselves. From Quenching the Father Thirst: Developing a Dad by the…
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Literature and research examining father involvement has focused primarily on outcomes associated with the well-being and development of children. The contextual factors associated with fathers, and how these factors shape fathers' involvement with their young children, have received limited…
Using the baseline father sample of the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Survey (N = 3,525), I consider how father type and presence and biological father involvement is associated with new father's attitudes toward fathering, testing the modeling and compensatory hypotheses. Results generally…
Chapter 1: Why Fathers Count: Fatherhood and the Future of Our Children; Chapter 2: Transitions to Fatherhood; Chapter 3: How Mothers and Fathers Help Each Other Count; Chapter 4: Better Marriages Make for Better Fathering; Chapter 5: The Daddy-Daughter Dance: Insights for Father-Daughter…
Research on fatherhood has come a long way over the last 30 years. Fathers today are recognized more and more as caregivers, playmates, and nurturers–not just economic providers . NRFC's new research scan Father…
This chapter examines differences in father involvement among fathers who are living with a child and the child's mother. Using qualitative interview data with fifty-seven couples, the author looks at fathering in the first year after birth to see how fathers in happy and unhappy relationships…
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Becoming a father at a young age can be both exciting and terrifying. While some young fathers talk of…
Research about the impact of fathering on child development has prompted questions about the definition of more and less father involvement and the different ways that children are affected by varying levels of involvement. Although there are no definite answers to these questions, this chapter…
In this article, we use data on biological fathers (n = 597) and mothers (N = 1,550) from 12 sites of the Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project (EHS study) to examine the type and frequency of father involvement. We use a three-part model of father involvement to examine whether fathers…
The result of an invited conference of scholars studying father involvement, this volume reflects on the conceptualization and measurement of father involvement within the academic and policy-making communities. It explores different measurement techniques and cultural influences impacting…