Fatherhood: Research, Interventions, and Policies - Hardcover

Peters, H. Elizabeth; Day, Randal D; Peterson, Gary W; Steinmetz, Suzanne

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0789010151 ISBN 13: 9780789010155

Publisher: Routledge, 2000

Synopsis

How much power does a father have to influence his children's development?

A lively and often heated public debate on the role and value of the father in a family has been underway in the United States for the past decade. Nevertheless, we are far from understanding the complex ways in which fathers make contributions to their families and children. Fatherhood: Research, Interventions, and Policies addresses the central questions of the role of fathers: What is the impact of father involvement on child outcomes? What factors predict increased involvement of fathers?

Bringing together papers presented at the Conference on Father Involvement, this volume includes contributions by leading scholars in anthropology, demography, economics, family science, psychology, and sociology. Many of the contributors also address the implications of father involvement for family policy issues, including family leave, child care, and child support. Furthermore, the discussion of fatherhood ranges well beyond the case of intact, middle-class, white families to include fathers from various ethnic groups and socioeconomic classes and of varied marital status, including fathers of nonmarital children, single-father families, and nonresident fathers.

Fatherhood: Research, Interventions, and Policies addresses both practical and theoretical concerns, including:

• the redefinition of fatherhood
• changes over time in research on fatherhood
• the predictive power of fathers’activities on their children's adult outcomes
• the correlation between fathers’income and their involvement with their nonmarital children
• the influence of fathers on their sons’probability of growing up to become responsible fathers
• the effects of divorce on father-son and father-daughter relationships
• interventions that help to keep divorced fathers in touch with their children
  
  This comprehensive, powerful book combines pioneering empirical research with thoughtful consideration of the social and psychological implications of fatherhood. It is essential reading for researchers, policymakers, psychologists, and students of family studies, human development, gender studies, social policy, sociology, and human ecology.

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About the Author

Elizabeth Peters earned her Ph.D. in Egyptology from the University of Chicago's famed Oriental Institute. She was named Grand Master at the inaugural Anthony Awards in 1986 and Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America in 1998. In 2003, she received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Malice Domestic Convention. She lives in a historic farmhouse in western Maryland.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0789010151
• ISBN 13: 9780789010155
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 338