Fathering articles from October 2003

Fathering archives from October 2003

From the editor.
October 1, 2003... This issue marks the end of Fathering's first year. I want to take this opportunity to thank the editorial board members for their continued support and involvement. The board members have been extremely responsive to my requests for various...

Connection and communication in father-child relationships and adolescent child well-being.
October 1, 2003... Contemporary research on fathering emphasizes the significance of a quality father-child relationship in a child's development and well-being. Scholars have suggested that connecting with and communicating with children are critical to a...

African-American fathering of young children in violent neighborhoods: paternal protective strategies and their predictors.
October 1, 2003... Using an ecological framework, this study investigated African-American fathers' use of five protective strategies to keep their preschool children safe from community violence. Father, child, and contextual predictors of fathers' protective...

Studying "working fathers": comparing fathers' and mothers' work-family sonflict, fit, and adaptive strategies in a global high-tech company.
October 1, 2003... Working fathers are underrepresented--conceptually and empirically--in work-family research. Using a global corporate sample of working fathers from 48 countries (N = 7,692), this study compares working fathers to working mothers on key...

Promoting children's mental health in disadvantaged areas: profiles of fathers.
October 1, 2003... Thirty inner-city fathers of preschoolers described how they see their role in promoting their children's mental health. Fifteen were very involved fathers with a strong sense of competence, and 15 were uninvolved fathers with a weak sense of...

Prenatal involvement of adolescent unmarried fathers.
October 1, 2003... This study investigated factors associated with adolescent unmarried, nonresident fathers' prenatal involvement with the teenaged mother. The sample consisted of 57 adolescent couples. Father characteristics and social-context factors were...

Errata.(Correction Notice)
October 1, 2003... Tables 2 and 3 in Beaton, Doherty, and Rueter's "Family of Origin Processes and Attitudes of Expectant Fathers" (Volume 1 #2) were printed with misaligned borderlines. The corrected pages are reprinted here. We apologize for any confusion...