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Fathers and School
This chapter conceptualises the “gender givens” of Danish schools, whereby teachers prefer to interact with the pupils’ mothers, making fathers feel...
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Parental Investment by Birth Fathers and Stepfathers
This study investigates the determinants of paternal investment by birth fathers and stepfathers. Inclusive fitness theory predicts higher parental...
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When is it About the Money? Relative Wages and Fathers’ Parental Leave Decisions
Policy-makers in many countries increasingly voice concerns about fathers’ low uptake of parental leave, given numerous potential dividends regarding...
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Are Separated Fathers Less or More Involved in Childrearing than Partnered Fathers?
Separated fathers are generally assumed to be less involved with their children than partnered fathers. Yet, extant research on separated fathers has...
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Are Mothers More Likely Than Fathers to Lose Their jobs?
The motherhood wage penalty is often cited as a contributor towards the gender earnings gap. A common explanation involves women’s labor supply...
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Men as Fathers and Providers
In the first of three chapters that analyse men’s accounts of their family participation across the lifecourse, we consider the diversity and...
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Muslim Fathers and Mistrusted Masculinity in Danish Schools
This book seeks to provide a deeper understanding of Muslim migrant fathers’ experiences of home-school cooperation in Danish schools by identifying...
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Is Leave for Fathers Pronatalist? A Mixed-Methods Study of the Impact of Fathers’ Uptake of Parental Leave on Couples’ Childbearing Intentions in South Korea
While many countries with low birth rates have implemented policies incentivizing fathers to take parental leave with the anticipation that it will...
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Timing and Frequency of Fathers’ Migration and Nutritional Status of Left-Behind Children in India: A Life Course Approach
This article adopts a life course perspective to examine the association between fathers’ migration and children's nutritional outcomes using the...
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The Economic Well-Being of Nonresident Fathers and Custodial Mothers Revisited: The Role of Paternal Childcare
Based on panel data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for the years 1998 to 2018, we investigate the association between paternal childcare...
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Imagining (New) Fathers
Coates (2015:63), a Black father raising his son in New York City, whose words from Between the World and Me have been cited throughout this volume,...
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Supporting Fathers to Prevent Child Maltreatment: How Paid Family Leave and Child Care Subsidies Are Part of a Public Health Approach
There are multiple components of a public health approach for preventing child maltreatment. One of these components is the question of who to...
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Painting a Diverse Picture of Fathers
As I am writing the last lines of this book, I come across the news of Keenan Anderson, 31, a Black father, a cousin of Black Lives Matter co-founder...
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Facial Attractiveness, but not Facial Masculinity, is Used as a Cue to Paternal Involvement in Fathers
PurposeFacial femininity in men is purportedly used as a cue by women as a signal of paternal involvement. However, evidence for this claim is...
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Investigating How Parental Support Varies Across Racially Diverse Mothers and Fathers in Relation to Emerging Adults’ Multiracial Experiences and Psychological Distress
The present study examined Multiracial emerging adults’ reports of up to two of their primary caregivers’ support of their Multiracial experiences,...
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Engaging Fathers in the Childcare Through Paternity Leave in Bangladesh
This chapter examines the rationale of paternity leave in the context of Bangladesh. Unlike many Nordic and European countries in the world, the...
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Maternal Employment, Fathers’ Childcare Time and Children’s Wellbeing
In the last decades, fathers have become increasingly involved in the daily care of children (Kornrich & Furstenberg, 2013), mainly in couples where...
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Consequences of Teen Parenthood for Teen Mothers and Fathers in Canada
Teen motherhood is associated with a variety of adverse consequences in prior literature, even after controlling for selection into teen motherhood....
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Eudaimonic Orientation Enhances the Well-Being Experienced by Fathers
The aim of this study was to investigate the potential moderating roles of eudaimonic orientation (prioritizing authenticity, meaning, excellence,...
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A Multilevel Grounded Theory of Quantitative Job Quality Among Mothers, Fathers and Childless Women and Men in a Gendered, Classed and Aged “Growth-Driven” Organisation
Poor quality jobs, incorporating job demands, resources and rewards, can impact employees’ health and wellbeing inside and outside work. However,...
