We evaluated the effectiveness of a multicomponent package in training infant-care skills to first-time fathers. After developing and socially validating a set of infant-care skills, we assessed the effects of training in a hospital-based program with expectant fathers (Experiment 1) and in a home-based program with fathers having varied degrees of experience with their infants (Experiment 2). ...

In this study we examined the relationships between family demographics and level of satisfaction with school contact as possible determinants of multiple dimensions of family involvement in early childhood education. Participants included 171 urban, Head Start parents (108 mothers and 63 fathers). Results revealed that for mothers, having less than a high school education was negatively associ...

OBJECTIVE We examined the association between the number of partners that mothers and fathers have children with and occurrence of cutaneous malignant melanoma (CMM). METHODS We conducted a complete registry-based follow-up of all Danish mothers born after 1935 from the birth of their second child until CMM, death, emigration, or end of study in 2002. We conducted a similar follow-up of the c...

This study explored how fathers of children diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) perceived and understood the roles they had within their family over the course of their child's illness and treatment. In-depth semi-structured interviews were conducted with five fathers. Transcripts were analysed using interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA). The major themes that emerged we...

Using high-quality register data, this paper constructs an empirical portrait of older parenthood in contemporary Norway and explores gender differences the extent to which parents are better-resourced parents. Like most family issues, academic policy discussions have tended focus on experiences women. Although motherhood at ages was not uncommon previous generations, rapid social changes recen...

Abstract This chapter takes as its point of departure the design elements Norwegian parental leave system for fathers and examines how it works a regulatory measure to promote equality in care work. The findings show that father’s quota statutory, earmarked, non-transferrable right promotes fathers’ use hence equality. earmarking, fact cannot be transferred mother, renders unnecessary negotiate...

Fathers and Youth’s Delinquent Behavior This paper analyzes the relationship between having one or more father figures and the likelihood that young people engage in delinquent criminal behavior. We pay particular attention to distinguishing the roles of residential and non-residential, biological fathers as well as stepfathers. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Heal...

OBJECTIVE to identify and describe men's experiences of sexuality after having a child. DESIGN a qualitative study using an interpretative phenomenological approach for analysing in-depth interviews. PARTICIPANTS purposeful sampling was used. 12 men were interviewed six to 13 months after having a child. Informants were men who became fathers for the first time or had already fathered a chi...

This study examined the moderating effects of 4 variables on the relation between father involvement (FI) and self-reported parenting practices of 71 couples who have children with attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The variables were parents' love for their spouses, similarity in child-rearing views, traditional role identification, and paternal ADHD symptoms. These variables int...