Fathers’ Role in Developing Child Emotional Development

Are Fathers Necessary For Positive Child Development?

Child development in developing countries 2 Child development: risk factors for adverse outcomes in developing countries

Poverty and associated health, nutrition, and social factors prevent at least 200 million children in developing countries from attaining their developmental potential. We review the evidence linking compromised development with modifi able biological and psychosocial risks encountered by children from birth to 5 years of age. We identify four key risk factors where the need for intervention is...

Fathers and child neglect.

OBJECTIVE To examine the association between father involvement and child neglect. DESIGN Cohort study. SETTING Participants were recruited from an inner-city pediatric primary care clinic and a clinic for children at risk for human immunodeficiency virus infection in a teaching hospital. PARTICIPANTS Mothers and fathers or father figures, and 244 five-year olds participating in a longitu...

Child-Rearing Practices of Brazilian Mothers and Fathers: Predictors and Impact on Child Development

Fathers and the well-child visit.

OBJECTIVE Societal and economic shifts have expanded the roles that fathers play in their families. Father involvement is associated with positive cognitive, developmental, and sociobehavioral child outcomes such as improved weight gain in preterm infants, improved breastfeeding rates, higher receptive language skills, and higher academic achievement. However, father involvement in health care ...