Are father depression and masculinity associated with father perceptions of maternal gatekeeping?

Maternal Gatekeeping and Father Responsibility 1 Longitudinal Relations between Maternal Gatekeeping and Father Responsibility

The current study examined relations between child characteristics and father responsibility and maternal gatekeeping (mothers’ attempts to either limit or encourage fathers’ parenting) and father responsibility across the infant’s first year using self-report and observational data from 64 two-parent families. Results showed that child gender and temperament interacted in relation to father re...

The Relationship Between Maternal Gatekeeping, Paternal Competence, Mothers’ Attitudes About the Father Role, and Father Involvement

This study explored the relationships between maternal gatekeeping, mothers’perceptions of father competence, mothers’ attitudes about the father role, and amount of father involvement. The sample consisted of 30 nonresidential and 72 residential fathers. The results of path analysis revealed that residential status of the father had a direct link to mothers’ gatekeeping behavior. Father compet...

Conditions Affecting the Association between Father Identity and Father Involvement

To better understand the conditions under which fathers are more or less involved with their children, we tested the moderating influences of interparental relationships on the association between identity and behavior in a sample of 186 married and 93 divorced fathers. Results showed that identity investment and satisfaction were positively associated with involvement in childrelated activitie...

Life With Father: Parenthood and Masculinity in the Nineteenth-Century American North

Father Damien

was a leper. The doctors assured him that this was not the case. But he once scalded himself in his foot, and to his horror he felt no pain. Anesthesia had begun, and soon other fatal signs appeared." The stringency of segregation practised at Molokai is also noted here. "Henceforth he came under the law of segregation and journeys to the other parts of the island were forbidden." It is, moreov...