Separated fathers and the ‘fathers’ rights’ movement

Fathers' rights groups: demographic correlates and impact on custody policy.

This article combines information from fathers' rights Web sites with demographic, historical, and other information to provide an empirically based analysis of fathers' rights advocacy in the United States. Content analysis discerns three factors that are central to the groups' rhetoric: representing domestic violence allegations as false, promoting presumptive joint custody and decreasing chi...

Children Ofaddicted Fathers

The research compares 5-12 year old children of addicted fathers with those of non-addicted fathers. This experiment was carried out on one hundred families of the addict, in comparison to another one hundred non-addicted families. These children have not been subjects for social scientists and health experts because of the following facts: 1) They live with their parents, 2) They are not crimi...

Fathers’ and daughters’ heights

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...

Neglected Fathers