Marian J Bakermans-Kranenburg, Anna Lotz, Kim Alyousefi-van Dijk, Marinus van IJzendoorn
As a result of societal changes, fathers participate more actively in child care than they used to. In this article, we propose a context-dependent biobehavioral model of emergent fatherhood in which sociocultural, behavioral, hormonal, and neural factors develop and interact during the first 1,000 days of fatherhood. Sociocultural factors, including different expectations of fathers and varying opportunities for paternal caregiving through paid paternal leave, influence paternal involvement. Levels of hormones (e...
December 2019: Child Development Perspectives