Engaging Fathers of Young Children in Low-Income Families to Improve Child and Family Outcomes: A Preventive Interventio
Despite the benefits for children and families of fathers who are involved positively with their children, most parenting programs in the USA and globally focus on and collect evaluation data from mothers almost exclusively. Engaging fathers is still view
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ers and Child Development Prenatal to Preschool
Handbook of Fathers and Child Development
Hiram E. Fitzgerald Kai von Klitzing Natasha J. Cabrera Júlia Scarano de Mendonça Thomas Skjøthaug Editors
Handbook of Fathers and Child Development Prenatal to Preschool
Editors Hiram E. Fitzgerald Michigan State University East Lansing, MI, USA Natasha J. Cabrera University of Maryland College Park, MD, USA Thomas Skjøthaug Division of Mental Health Akershus University Hospital HF Lørenskog, Norway
Kai von Klitzing Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry University of Leipzig Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany Júlia Scarano de Mendonça Graduate Program in Educational Psychology Centro Universitário FIEO Osasco, São Paulo, Brazil
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Foreword
ome Reflections on the Last 50 Years of Fatherhood S Research: Progress, Promises, and Challenges As this volume illustrates so well, as a field we have come a long way in both overcoming the idea that fathers are the forgotten parents and in unveiling the curtain that shrouded fathers in mystery. They are neither forgotten nor a mystery any longer but have assumed their rightful place along with mothers as central agents in the socialization of children. It was not always the case and with few exceptions such as early studies of wartime absent fathers, it was not until the 1960s and 1970s when the modern study of fathers began.
The Early Descriptive Phase In the beginning, the goal was a descriptive one with the aim being to discover how men acted with infants and young chil
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