After decades of focusing on the mother's role in parenting, family studies researchers have
turned their attention to the role of the father in parenting and family development. The …

Throughout the 1990s, scholars interested in fatherhood have generated a voluminous, rich,
and diverse body of work. We selectively review this literature with an eye toward prominent …

Why do fathers matter? Recent conceptual and theoretical advances regarding father–child
relationships have demonstrated that fathers affect children's outcomes both directly and …

Researchers began studying the impact of fathers on child development approximately 70
years ago. Since then, studies of fathers' influence and experience with children have …

During recent years, fathers' involvement has been addressed as a key source of family well‐
being and positive child development. However, the pathways to father involvement and its …

This second edition reviews the new research findings and theoretical advances on fathers,
families, child development, programs, and policies that have occurred in the past decade …

This article presents the approach that other investigators and I take in fathering research
employing the construct of paternal involvement. First, I review the involvement construct …

In this report we describe the state of current research on father involvement and point to
ways in which research findings might inform the economic and public policies that affect …

Over the last few decades fathers have become an increasing presence in research, yet
research on fathers still lags behind that on mothers. In fact, most research on parents still …

Fathers are more than social accidents. Research has demonstrated that fathers matter to
children's development. Despite noted progress, challenges remain on how best to …