children ofaddicted fathers

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...

The Age Gauge: Older Fathers Having Children

Editor's Note: In recent years, scientists have debated the existence of a link between a father's age and his child's vulnerability to psychiatric problems. Our authors led a research team that produced a paper that analyzed data on all individuals born in Sweden from 1973 through 2001. Both the authors' study and another study raise as many questions as they answer, but they suggest that chil...

Low-Income Fathers’ Influence on Children

This article examines what we know about how low-income fathers matter for children. We first provide a theoretical background about how parents generally (and fathers more specifically) are expected to influence children’s development and well-being. We note the importance of considering differences across children’s age, gender, and race/ethnicity, and we identify key methodological challenge...

Literature Review-Fathers of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Objectives: The involvement of parents in raising children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is crucial for both the child's development and family functioning. However, studies relating to parental involvement in parenting children with ASD mainly focus on the mother's perspective, resulting in a lack of understanding of the father's role. On the other hand, the father involvement in parenti...

“ Fathers ’ Involvement and Fathers ’ Well - being over Children ’ s First Five Years ”

Overlooked and underserved: Widowed fathers with dependent-age children.

OBJECTIVE Widowed fathers and their children are at heightened risk for poor coping and maladaptive psychosocial outcomes. This exploratory study is the first to explicitly examine the psychological characteristics of this population of fathers. METHOD Some 259 fathers (mean age = 46.81; 90% Caucasian) with dependent-age children and whose wives had died from cancer within the previous five y...