FatheringPub Date : 2011-01-01DOI: 10.3149/FTH.0901.87
L. Plantin, A. Olukoya, Pernilla Ny
{"title":"Positive Health Outcomes of Fathers’ Involvment in Pregnancy and Childbirth Paternal Support : A Scope Study Literature Review","authors":"L. Plantin, A. Olukoya, Pernilla Ny","doi":"10.3149/FTH.0901.87","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3149/FTH.0901.87","url":null,"abstract":"This study reviewed the literature concerning the involvement by European men in pregnancy and childbirth and examined how this is related to health outcomes; for the men themselves, their partners, and their children. The study also reflects on the literature in relation to other existing research on men, masculinities, and fatherhood. The literature review support the idea that the father’s involvement during pregnancy and delivery can positively influence health outcomes for the man, his partner, and their children. However, little help is offered to the majority of men regarding parenting. It is therefore crucial for the maternal and child healthcare services to develop new ways of reaching out to men. In order to develop new knowledge earlier research needs to be complemented with a multidisciplinary approach where the existing research material, on social science regarding men, masculinities, and fatherhood is also taken into consideration.","PeriodicalId":88482,"journal":{"name":"Fathering","volume":"10 1","pages":"87-102"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85602546","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
FatheringPub Date : 2011-01-01DOI: 10.3149/fth.0901.44
Melinda S Leidy, Thomas J Schofield, Marie A Miller, Ross D Parke, Scott Coltrane, Sanford Braver, Jeffrey Cookston, William Fabricius, Delia Saenz, Michele Adams
{"title":"Fathering and Adolescent Adjustment: Variations by Family Structure and Ethnic Background.","authors":"Melinda S Leidy, Thomas J Schofield, Marie A Miller, Ross D Parke, Scott Coltrane, Sanford Braver, Jeffrey Cookston, William Fabricius, Delia Saenz, Michele Adams","doi":"10.3149/fth.0901.44","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3149/fth.0901.44","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The current study investigated how fathering behaviors (acceptance, rejection, monitoring, consistent discipline, and involvement) are related to preadolescent adjustment in Mexican American and European American stepfamilies and intact families. Cross-sectional data from 393 7<sup>th</sup> graders, their schoolteachers, and parents were used to examine links between different dimensions of fathering and adolescent outcomes. Following an ecological multivariate model, family SES, marital satisfaction, and mothers' parenting were included as controls. In all contexts, fathering had significant effects on adolescent adjustment. Both mothers' parenting and adolescent gender moderated the associations, and we uncovered some provocative nonlinear relations between fathering and adolescent outcomes. The importance of ethnicity and family structure in studies of fathering are highlighted.</p>","PeriodicalId":88482,"journal":{"name":"Fathering","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3149/fth.0901.44","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"31868218","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
FatheringPub Date : 2011-01-01DOI: 10.3149/FTH.0901.3
Ingrid O. Spjeldnaes, K. Moland, Janet Harris, D. Sam
{"title":"\"Being Man Enough\": Fatherhood Experiences and Expectations among Teenage Boys in South Africa","authors":"Ingrid O. Spjeldnaes, K. Moland, Janet Harris, D. Sam","doi":"10.3149/FTH.0901.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3149/FTH.0901.3","url":null,"abstract":"Through a socio-psychological lens, this study aimed at exploring how South African school-boys of low socio-economic status experienced interacting with men and fathers about the transition to manhood and how they visualised their own role as fathers in the future. These questions were explored against the backdrop of the socio-economic conditions for boys negotiating their way into manhood in economically disadvantaged contexts. A sequential triangulation of qualitative methods was employed. The findings indicated a huge discrepancy between their experiences of being fathered and future aspirations for “responsible fatherhood”. Guiding children about personal issues into manhood was seen as the most important father-responsibility, yet the legal framework presented obstacles to initiate future responsible fathering.","PeriodicalId":88482,"journal":{"name":"Fathering","volume":"32 1","pages":"3-21"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69845115","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
FatheringPub Date : 2011-01-01DOI: 10.3149/FTH.0901.22
J. M. White, S. Brotherson, Adam M. Galovan, E. Holmes, Jennifer A. Kampmann
{"title":"The Dakota Father Friendly Assessment: Measuring Father Friendliness in Head Start and Similar Settings","authors":"J. M. White, S. Brotherson, Adam M. Galovan, E. Holmes, Jennifer A. Kampmann","doi":"10.3149/FTH.0901.22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3149/FTH.0901.22","url":null,"abstract":"Head Start programs offer a setting to examine support that facilitates father involvement. The Dakota Father Friendly Assessment (DFFA) is designed to evaluate an organization’s level of father-friendliness. To establish its psychometric properties, a sample of North and South Dakota early childhood staff (N = 609) completed the DFFA. A number of measures were included as indicators of validity. Factor analysis of the DFFA confirmed the presence of four expected factors and revealed a fifth factor (loadings ranged from .40 to .80). Coefficient alphas for DFFA subscales ranged from .71 to .87. Moderate relationships existed between DFFA subscales and other measures, demonstrating concurrent and discriminant validity. Research is needed to determine the efficacy of the DFFA in other organizational settings and to identify change over time.","PeriodicalId":88482,"journal":{"name":"Fathering","volume":"55 1","pages":"22-43"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69844833","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
FatheringPub Date : 2011-01-01DOI: 10.3149/FTH.0901.69
Lynda M. Ashbourne, K. Daly, Jaime L. Brown
{"title":"RESPONSIVENESS IN FATHER-CHILD RELATIONSHIPS: THE EXPERIENCE OF FATHERS","authors":"Lynda M. Ashbourne, K. Daly, Jaime L. Brown","doi":"10.3149/FTH.0901.69","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3149/FTH.0901.69","url":null,"abstract":"Qualitative interviews with 215 fathers describe the emergent and responsive nature of the father-child relationship and its consequent influence on fathers themselves. Using a social constructionist or dialogic model of relationships, we highlight the importance of understanding the experience of fathers as they are actively engaged in responsive, relational, and interactional activities with their children. Fathers’ descriptions of responsiveness highlight father- child interaction “in the moment,” attention to children’s expression of needs, and the influence of fathers’ own sets of priorities and values. A critical element of responsiveness to children is that it requires shared time between fathers and their children. Responsiveness within the father-child relationship facilitates children’s development and also provides fathers with opportunities to develop and understand themselves differently. The current study contributes to understanding men’s development and the fathering experience by specifically exploring the influence on men of engaging in fathering, of attending to their children and experiencing their own responsiveness.","PeriodicalId":88482,"journal":{"name":"Fathering","volume":"9 1","pages":"69-86"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69845232","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
FatheringPub Date : 2011-01-01DOI: 10.3149/FTH.0901.103
T. Lappegård, M. Rønsen, Kari Skrede
{"title":"Fatherhood and Fertility","authors":"T. Lappegård, M. Rønsen, Kari Skrede","doi":"10.3149/FTH.0901.103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3149/FTH.0901.103","url":null,"abstract":"This paper demonstrates that education influences men’s childbearing behaviour in multiple ways. Focusing particularly on childlessness and multipartner fertility, key elements in our analyses are factors related to a man’s capacity for economic and practical parenting, reflected e.g. through income prospects, job-security, job-flexibility and the gender-composition of the job. Our data covers all men living in Norway during 1970-2006 which allows for a detailed analysis of diversity along a wide range of different educational groups and cohorts. Childlessness among men is most pronounced among those with low education and least pronounced among those with high education, but at a given educational level, we also observe sharp contrasts between men within different fields of education. The educational pattern of multi-partner fertility is different from childlessness, as the propensity to have children with more than one woman is most pronounced among those with low education.","PeriodicalId":88482,"journal":{"name":"Fathering","volume":"9 1","pages":"103-120"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69844788","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
FatheringPub Date : 2011-01-01DOI: 10.3149/fth.0903.268
Karen Benjamin Guzzo
{"title":"NEW FATHER'S EXPERIENCES WITH THEIR OWN FATHERS AND ATTITUDES TOWARD FATHERING.","authors":"Karen Benjamin Guzzo","doi":"10.3149/fth.0903.268","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3149/fth.0903.268","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Using the baseline father sample of the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Survey (n=3,525), I consider how father type and presence and biological father involvement is associated with new father's attitudes toward fathering, testing the modeling and compensatory hypotheses. Results generally support the modeling hypothesis. Relative to new fathers who had a very involved coresidential father, men whose father was less involved are less likely to support the notion that fathers serve as authority figures. Men who had neither a coresidential father nor a father figure and whose biological father was not very involved are less agreeable to the idea that fathers are important sources of financial support or direct care. Weak support for the compensatory hypothesis is found for more global attitudes toward fatherhood and in results suggesting men with a father-figure have more favorable father attitudes than men who did not have a father-figure.</p>","PeriodicalId":88482,"journal":{"name":"Fathering","volume":"9 3","pages":"268-290"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3149/fth.0903.268","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"31042948","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
FatheringPub Date : 2010-09-01DOI: 10.3149/FTH.0803.379
Karen B. Meteyer, M. Perry-Jenkins
{"title":"Father Involvement among Working-Class, Dual-Earner Couples","authors":"Karen B. Meteyer, M. Perry-Jenkins","doi":"10.3149/FTH.0803.379","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3149/FTH.0803.379","url":null,"abstract":"Predictors of father involvement were explored among 98 dual-earner, working- class couples experiencing the transition to parenthood. A model combining different theoretical approaches to predict levels and rates of change in father involvement during the first year of parenthood was tested using hierarchical linear modeling. Results indicated that father involvement at oneyear postpartum was most equitable when parents worked opposite shifts, mothers were employed full-time, and mothers were lower on gatekeeping. Mothers’ full-time work, economic contributions of father, gender ideology, paternal skill and baby soothability predicted changes in father involvement over time. In addition, full-time work and shift work moderated the relationship between other predictors and father involvement.","PeriodicalId":88482,"journal":{"name":"Fathering","volume":"8 1","pages":"379-403"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3149/FTH.0803.379","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69844696","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
FatheringPub Date : 2010-09-01DOI: 10.3149/FTH.0803.341
L. Biggart, M. O'Brien
{"title":"UK Fathers' long work hours: career stage or fatherhood?","authors":"L. Biggart, M. O'Brien","doi":"10.3149/FTH.0803.341","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3149/FTH.0803.341","url":null,"abstract":"Using data from the UK’s Third Work-Life Balance Employee Survey (2006) this paper explores whether long working hours, characteristic of British fathers, is best explained by men’s career stage or their parental status. Guided by theoretical concepts “father as breadwinner” and “father as carer,” it is hypothesised that fathers will work long hours to fulfil an economic provider role and “caring fathers” will work less hours to be more involved in the family. Men without dependent children are assumed to have lesser economic and caring demands or motivations. Regression models showed that being a father, rather than career stage, predicted working longer hours, controlling for earnings, education and partner’s work status. However, being in a professional occupation predicted working longer hours for all men, irrespective of parental status.","PeriodicalId":88482,"journal":{"name":"Fathering","volume":"8 1","pages":"341-361"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3149/FTH.0803.341","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69844533","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
FatheringPub Date : 2010-09-01DOI: 10.3149/FTH.0803.321
G. Kaufman, C. Lyonette, R. Crompton
{"title":"Post-birth employment leave among fathers in Britain and the United States","authors":"G. Kaufman, C. Lyonette, R. Crompton","doi":"10.3149/FTH.0803.321","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3149/FTH.0803.321","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines fathers’ use of family leave in Britain and the US. Using data from interviews with 83 working fathers in Britain and the United States, we find that almost all fathers take some leave, but British fathers take more leave on average while American fathers demonstrate a wider range of leave time. Much of this has to do with the national context within which these men experience becoming a father. British fathers commonly took one week of paid leave, a taken for granted benefit. Most American fathers, faced with unpaid leave, used vacation days to take time off around the birth of their child. In some cases, it was unclear how leave was counted. Other themes include difficulties with “family unfriendly” employers and the desire for more time off and better leave policies.","PeriodicalId":88482,"journal":{"name":"Fathering","volume":"8 1","pages":"321-340"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3149/FTH.0803.321","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69844670","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}