Fathering articles from March 2006

Fathering archives from March 2006

Editorial transition at Fathering.(Jay Fagan quits)(Editorial)(Cover story)
March 22, 2006... Dr. Jay Fagan, Fathering's current Editor, has announced his resignation effective at the end of the present volume (Volume 4). During the past four years, Dr. Fagan was responsible for launching Fathering during what most would agree was one...

Good fathering: father and son perceptions of what it means to be a good father.
March 22, 2006... The present article details two exploratory studies on the nature of fatherhood and on the behavioral and psychological characteristics that define a good father. In the first study, 374 adult men who were fathers of at least one child...

Father involvement and adolescent adjustment: longitudinal findings from add health.
March 22, 2006... Based on two waves of data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, evidence from 2,387 adolescents tested the hypothesis that mothers and fathers in two-parent families make unique, additive contributions to the delinquency,...

The father presence questionnaire: a new measure of the subjective experience of being fathered.
March 22, 2006... Over the past 30 years, researchers have learned much about father absence and father involvement. Most of this work, however, is based upon the viewpoint of the father himself, the mother, or the researcher/observer. In this study, we examine...

Single parenthood and the double standard.
March 22, 2006... In the 1950s, when unmarried men and women became parents, the double standard stigmatized women more than men. With the rise in egalitarianism and approval of sex outside of marriage, however, attitudes may have changed so that people view...