Fathering and Child Outcomes Review

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(More customer reviews)Eirini Flouri is affilated with the Centre for Research into Parenting and Children at the University of Oxford and lecturer in Statistics at St Hilda's College with an interest in human development and since the year 2000 she has researched the role of the father in parenting.
As an example of this new trend into fathering the National Center for Fathering (www.fathers.com) was established in Kansas City in 1990 in order that every child should have an involved father or father figure, so that children would not be unfathered. It is true that "fathering" has become a hot issue in human development research, but in fact we are talking about a recovery of awareness and not something unprecedented as discussed in the book by Eli Newberger (The men they will become. The nature and nurture of male character. Cambridge, MA: Perseus Publ, 1999). Here it is documented that English and American fathers in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were active in all aspects of domestic life, from monitoring their wives' pregnancies to taking responsibility for the daily socialization of their children, but in the nineteenth century fathers were somehow displaced from the center of the family circle and only recognized through the expression of a paycheck.
This book is based on more than 20 studies performed by the author in the United Kingdom using five different data sources spanning a time period of more than 40 years with an international review of studies in the field of the role of the father in child development.
This is a scholarly book with important research that will serve as a reference in this field. Her studies showed that father involvement was sometimes associated with "good" children's (career maturity in adolescence, labour force participation, state benefits receipt and subsidised housing in adult life) outcome and sometimes unrelated. Father involvement was associated with low risk for delinquincy in sons (but not in daughters), father interest in child education was related to daughter's (but not son's) educational attainment in adult life and father involvement protected against experience of homelessness in adult sons (but not in daughets) from low (but not high) socio-economic groups.
Gideon Vardi, MD, MPH
Zusman Child Development Center, Division of Pediatrics, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev in Beer-Sheva, Israel. E-mail: GideonVa@clalit.org.il
Prrofessor Joav Merrick, MD
Director, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and Medical director, Division for Mental Retardation, Box 1260, IL-91012 Jerusalem, Israel. E-mail: jmerrick@internet-zahav.net

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Over the last twenty years it has become recognized that fathers play a crucial role in child development and subsequent adult status and behaviour. This book presents the state-of-the-art on fathering and its determinants. Based on original research into the effects that different styles of fathering can have on children, it explores the long and short terms outcomes of involved fathering on different domains of children?s lives, including academic achievement, mental health, socio-economic status, adolescent relationships and delinquency.

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