Brenda L Volling, Natasha J Cabrera, Mark E Feinberg, Damon E Jones, Brandon T McDaniel, Siwei Liu, David Almeida, Jin-Kyung Lee, Sarah J Schoppe-Sullivan, Xin Feng, Micah L Gerhardt, Claire M Kamp Dush, Matthew M Stevenson, Paige Safyer, Richard Gonzalez, Joyce Y Lee, Bernhard Piskernik, Lieselotte Ahnert, Elizabeth Karberg, Jenessa Malin, Catherine Kuhns, Jay Fagan, Rebecca Kaufman, W Justin Dyer, Ross D Parke, Jeffrey T Cookston
Fathers are more than social accidents. Research has demonstrated that fathers matter to children's development. Despite noted progress, challenges remain on how best to conceptualize and assess fathering and father-child relationships. The current monograph is the result of an SRCD-sponsored meeting of fatherhood scholars brought together to discuss these challenges and make recommendations for best practices for incorporating fathers in studies on parenting and children's development. The first aim of this monograph was to provide a brief update on the current state of research on fathering and to lay out a developmental ecological systems perspective as a conceptual framework for understanding the different spaces fathers inhabit in their children's lives...
March 2019: Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development