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Father Involvement

Marriage & Family Review, 2000
This paper assumes a developmental focus to provide a psychological perspective of father involvement. A key element of this objective is to recognize how difficult it is to define the complexities of father involvement. Components of father involvement include such relationship components as direct interaction, availability, and the managerial ...
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Resident Black Fathers’ Involvement

Journal of Family Issues, 2011
Increasing fathers’ involvement with their children has become a priority in recent years. Marriage promotion programs have been offered as the primary vehicles for increasing paternal involvement. Although marriage is likely to provide fathers with increased access and opportunity for paternal involvement, much less is known about the ways in which ...
Armon R. Perry, Dana K. Harmon, James Leeper   +2 more
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Father involvement and child well‐being

Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, 2011
AbstractChildren's development is influenced by the quantity and quality of father involvement (FI) in their care. High levels of FI are associated with significant and highly desirable outcomes for children and families. In order to foster increased positive FI, dissemination of evidence‐based knowledge regarding its importance and value is needed ...
Katherine R, Wilson, Margot R, Prior
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Parents’ Fathering Identity Standards and Later Father Involvement

Journal of Family Issues, 2013
Based on propositions from identity theory, this study used a sample of 1,596 coresident couples from the Fragile Families and Child Well-Being Study to examine whether parents’ fathering role centrality standards and fathers’ status centrality at the time of their child’s birth were associated with mother and father reports of father involvement 1 ...
Kari Adamsons, Kay Pasley
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Fathering attitudes and father involvement

2011
Fatherhood is being increasingly studied, and positive consequences related to involved fathering are gaining greater recognition. However, we still do not understand why observed fathering behavior lags behind society's standard of the highly involved father.
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Father Involvement: New Zealand

2012
While New Zealand’s diverse population means that there is no one historical or current role for fathers in New Zealand, many men take an active role in parenting. Yet, most fathers in New Zealand face a range of barriers to active involved fathering. Some are relatively minor but others are more significant.
Paul Callister, Lindy Fursman
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Father Involvement in Canada

Social Work Education, 2013
Jessica Ball & Kerry Daly (Eds), Vancouver, University of British Columbia Press, 2012, 250 pp, ISBN: 978-0-7748-2401-9 (pbk) The issue of fathering has taken a backseat to mothering for many years...
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Father Involvement, Nurturant Fathering, and Young Adult Psychosocial Functioning

Journal of Family Issues, 2006
The present study was conducted to investigate differences in nurturant fathering, father involvement, and young adult psychosocial functioning among small samples of three nontraditional family forms. A total of 168 young-adult university students from three family forms (27 adoptive, 22 adoptive stepfather, 119 nonadoptive stepfather) completed ...
Seth J. Schwartz, Gordon E. Finley
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Nonresident Fathers' Involvement and Adolescents' Smoking

Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 2006
Although prior research has shown that adolescents from divorced and separated households are more likely to smoke than their peers from intact families, few studies have addressed factors that may minimize this risk, such as the role of involvement by nonresident fathers. A sample from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health)
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Fathers' Involvement in their Children's Healthcare

The Journal of Genetic Psychology, 1991
Fathers' involvement in the routine healthcare of young children was investigated, and fathers' relative participation in two tasks, staying home with a sick child and taking the child to the doctor or dentist, was assessed. The relationships between fathers' involvement in healthcare and several other measures, including mothers' employment status ...
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