This literature review draws from a wide array of interdisciplinary research to argue that
fathers need to be included in child welfare practice and research to the same extent as …

Current policy regarding child protection services places increasing demands for providers
to engage fathers whose children are involved in the child protection process. This requisite …

This research examined factors that predicted resilience in sexually abused adolescents.
Using Bronfenbrenner's Process-Person-Context-Time (PPCT) ecological model, this study …

Despite mounting evidence on the importance of fathers in children's development,
evidence-based perinatal home visitation programs have largely overlooked fathers in the …

Fathers have been an important source of child endurance and prosperity since the dawn of
civilization, promoting adaptation to social rules, defining cultural meaning systems …

Whereas child maltreatment research has developed considerable evidence on post-natal
risk-factors, pre-natal circumstances have been largely overlooked. The circumstances …

This paper describes the findings of an evaluation of a training course for child protection
social workers that aimed to improve their engagement of fathers in child protection …

Background Clarifying the pathways leading parents to engage in parent-child aggression
(PCA) would benefit child abuse prevention efforts during the perinatal period. Objective The …

Both mothers and fathers perpetrate child maltreatment, but it is uncertain the extent to which
child maltreatment prevention programmes include fathers. The objectives of this systematic …

Background Most children exposed to father-perpetrated domestic violence (DV) continue to
have contact or live with fathers, yet there is little research on the impact of fathering in the …