Time and Money: Extending Fathers Role in Economically Challenging Contexts

Time and Money: Extending Fathers' Role in Economically Challenging Contexts.

The discipline of pediatrics focuses on ways to optimize the health and development of children. Increasingly this entails engaging parents, which historically has meant mothers. However, as evidenced by the recent 2016 American Academy of Pediatrics Clinical Report, 1 father contributions are becoming better understood and appreciated. With evidence pointing solidly to the benefits of paternal...

Fathers’ Investments of Time and Money across Residential Contexts

Fathers’ roles in family life have changed dramatically over the past fifty years. High and rising divorce rates, the growing proportion of births that occur outside of marriage, and the higher likelihood of children living with their mothers when their parents’ union ends have resulted in a striking decline in the proportion of men living with their own biological children since the mid-1960s....

Fathers’ Investments of Money and Time across Residential Contexts

Extending the trans-contextual model in physical education and leisure-time contexts: examining the role of basic psychological need satisfaction.

BACKGROUND The trans-contextual model (TCM) is an integrated model of motivation that aims to explain the processes by which agentic support for autonomous motivation in physical education promotes autonomous motivation and physical activity in a leisure-time context. It is proposed that perceived support for autonomous motivation in physical education is related to autonomous motivation in phy...

Low-income young fathers: contexts, connections, and self.

Although teenage pregnancy is at the center of much current social concern and political debate, the focus tends to be on the young mothers and their children. The lives and parenting experiences of young fathers typically receive less attention from researchers, practitioners, and policymakers. This article presents findings from a qualitative research study of 25 low-income young fathers. You...