Fathering articles from March 2004

Fathering archives from March 2004

American fatherhood types: the good, the bad, and the uninterested.
March 22, 2004... This paper presents four contemporary types of American manhood: (a) the new, involved father, (b) the good provider, (c) the deadbeat dad, and (d) the paternity-free man. These four types are compared, contrasted, and contextualized with...

Key determinants of mothers' decisions to allow visits with non-custodial fathers.
March 22, 2004... Increases in single-parent households, often involving never married couples, have heightened the urgency to understand decisions parents make about parent-child relationships after separation. This qualitative study provides a descriptive...

Unidimensional versus multidimensional perspectives on father involvement.
March 22, 2004... The purpose of this study was to evaluate and compare the utility of unidimensional and multidimensional models of the construct of father involvement and to provide measurement advice for researchers. Participants were 1,139 two-parent...

Class-based masculinities: divorce, fatherhood, and the hegemonic ideal.
March 22, 2004... This study is based on current research and theory that suggests that divorce creates fundamental changes in the organization of families in terms of gender. We use feminist theory, with its elevation of gender to a central category of...

Paternal involvement and infant-father attachment: a Q-set study.
March 22, 2004... The primary purpose of this report was to investigate the correlates of attachment security with fathers and the concordance of mother-infant and father-infant attachment as measured by the Attachment Q-set (AQS, Waters, 1987). Sixty fathers...