This chapter shows that fathers and families are embedded in a network of biological and
neurological systems, and the biological basis of fathering. There are overall differences in …

As is evident from this and other recent volumes (eg, Gray & Anderson, 2010; Lamb, 2010;
Shwalb, Shwalb, & Lamb, in press), we have made modest strides in detailing cultural …

For decades parenting was typically operationalized as mothering. A variety of factors
contributed to this narrow definition of parenting including assumptions about the critical …

This volume attests to the substantial evidence for the effects of fathers on children's
development. A historical, traditional view of parenting, including fathering, is to emphasize …

In the past two decades fathers have been “discovered” by both child development
researchers and the mass media. There is now a voluminous literature in professional …

Little more than a decade ago, I wrote that fathers were" forgotten contributors to child
development" so far as empirical research by psychologists was concerned. In the …

Although a great deal has been written about the development of children, the mother-child
relationship, and the differing psychologies of women and men, the study of fathers …

Since 1970, there has been considerable research on the development of father-infant
relationships. The majority of studies have involved affluent EuroAmerican families in the …

Much of the literature on African American fathers has tended to perpetuate a stereotype of
absent and unsupportive parenting. This study employs a life course perspective to …

A little more than a decade ago, Lamb (1975) described fathers as" forgotten contributors to
child development. 77 That label is certainly not accurate today. In the intervening years, we …