Paternal Involvement and Infant-Father Attachment: A Q-Set Study
This study found that men's involvement with their infants predicted higher levels of infant-father attachment security.
• Category: Parenthood/Childrearing > Attachment
• Mens Studies Press • March 22, 2004

Fathering Court-Involved Daughters: Fathers' Gender-Specific Concerns About Their Paternal Role
This study explores the role fathers play in relationships with their delinquent daughters.
• Category: Parenthood/Childrearing > Attachment
• Mens Studies Press • March 22, 2005

Good Fathering: Father and Son Perceptions of What It Means To Be A Good Father
This study asked fathers and sons to list qualities that good fathers possess.
• Category: Parenthood/Childrearing > Attachment
• Mens Studies Press • March 22, 2006

Resident Fathers' Perceptions of their Roles and Links to Involvement with Infants
This study analyzed whether fathers' perceptions of the importance of their roles influenced their involvement with infants in five ways: caregiving, warmth, nurturing activities, physical care, and cognitively stimulating activities.
• Category: Parenthood/Childrearing > Attachment
• Mens Studies Press • September 22, 2006

Revisiting Men's Role in Father Involvement: The Importance of Personal Expectations
This study examined expectant fathers' and mothers' expectations for paternal involvement to see if expectations for paternal involvement predicted paternal involvement postnatally.
• Category: Parenthood/Childrearing > Attachment
• Mens Studies Press • March 22, 2005

The Transition to Fatherhood: Identity and Bonding in Early Pregnancy
This study examined the link between father identity and paternal bonding during the first trimester of pregnancy.
• Category: Parenthood/Childrearing > Attachment
• Mens Studies Press • September 22, 2006

Leave No Youth Behind: Opportunities for Congress to Reach Disconnected Youth
This report examines six government programs that could be used to help disconnected and at-risk youth.
• Category: Parenthood/Childrearing > Attachment
• Center for Law and Social Policy • July 01, 2003

Teens and Their Parents in the 21st Century: An Examination of Trends in Teen Behavior and the Role of Parental Involvement
This report examined the link between teen behavioural outcomes and parental involvement.
• Category: Parenthood/Childrearing > Attachment
• Council of Economic Advisers, Washington, DC • May 2, 2000

Supporting Healthy Relationships Between Young Children and Their Parents
This brief explores attachment theory offering definitions, research and guidelines for healthy relationships between parents and children.
• Category: Parenthood/Childrearing > Attachment
• Center for Child and Family Policy Duke University • Spring 2007

Diminishing Interest in Motherhood and Human Ecology
This paper uses evidence to suggest that the mother-child relationship is one of the most important of all human relationships.
• Category: Parenthood/Childrearing > Attachment
• The Howard Center for Family, Religion & Society • May 2007

Australian Social Trends 1994: Family - Living Arrangements: Living With Parents
This document looks at statistics on the number of young Australians living with their parents, and examines the characteristics and demographics of this population, such as educational goals, marital status, and income.
• Category: Parenthood/Childrearing > Attachment
• Australian Bureau of Statistics • February 22, 2001

Development in the First Years of Life
This article discusses the significant contribution of the early years in shaping a child's social, emotional, physical, mental, and cognitive development.
• Category: Parenthood/Childrearing > Attachment
• The Future of Children • 2001

Attachment to Parents and Adjustment in Adolescence: Literature Review and Policy Implications
This paper provides an overview of existing research on the effect of the parent-child bond on healthy adolescent social and psychological adjustment.
• Category: Parenthood/Childrearing > Attachment
• Health Canada • March 31, 2000

The Importance of Caregiver-Child Interactions for the Survival and Healthy Development of Young Children: A Review
This report provides evidence that sensitive, responsive and nurturing caregiver-child interactions in the early years of a child's life are fundamental for children's healthy physical, psychological and social development.
• Category: Parenthood/Childrearing > Attachment
• Department of Child and Adolescent Health and Development, World Health Organization • 2004

Orbitofrontal Cortex Tracks Positive Mood in Mothers Viewing Pictures of their Newborn Infants
Neurologists in this study found that first-time mothers, when presented with pictures of their infants, exhibited more brain activity in the frontal cortex of the brain responsible for the function of mood and emotion than when presented with pictures of unfamiliar infants.
• Category: Parenthood/Childrearing > Attachment
• Elsevier Inc. • February 2004

Breastfeeding and Postpartum Employment: Are There Conflicts for American Women?
This paper discusses the conflict faced by some mothers between desiring to breastfeed their infants, and desiring, or needing, to work while their children are very young.
• Category: Parenthood/Childrearing > Attachment
• Population Research Center • Revised May 1994

Risks and Benefits of Open Adoption
This article reviews the main arguments relating to the advantages and disadvantages of an adoption process in which the birth and adoptive parents are in contact with each other.
• Category: Parenthood/Childrearing > Attachment
• The Future of Children • Spring 1993

Parent-Child Connectedness: Implications for Research, Interventions, and Positive Impacts on Adolescent Health
This literature explores and seeks to clarify the concept of parent-child connectedness and its potential benefits for children, adolescents, and parents.
• Category: Parenthood/Childrearing > Attachment
• ETR Associates • 2004

Reinventing Fatherhood: Toward an Historical Understanding of Continuity and Change in Men's Family Lives
The authors argue that researchers in the U.
• Category: Parenthood/Childrearing > Attachment
• National Center on Fathers and Families • December 01, 1998

Enhancing Parent-Child Interaction During Foster Care Visits: Experimental Assessment of an Intervention
This report presents the results of an intervention that provided mothers whose children were in foster care with strategies for supporting and separating from their children at the end of a visit.
• Category: Parenthood/Childrearing > Attachment
• Children and Family Research Center • 2003

Where Do Fathers Fit In?
This paper investigates the role of fathers in family life and in a child's development from infancy through to adolescence.
• Category: Parenthood/Childrearing > Attachment
• CIVITAS: The Institute for the Study of Civil Society • December 01, 2001

Fathering Indicators Framework: A Tool for Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis
This paper outlines the responsibilities of the father to work with other agencies and care givers for the positive development of the child.
• Category: Parenthood/Childrearing > Attachment
• National Center on Fathers and Families • March 01, 2001

Chartier v. Chartier, [1999] 1 S.C.R. 242
This court decision aims to answer one main question: can a spouse, who has assumed the role of parent to his/her partner's child, unilaterally withdraw from that role after the union has ended in divorce.
• Category: Parenthood/Childrearing > Attachment
• Canada Legal Information Institute • January 28, 1999

Effects of Child Health on Parents’ Relationship Status
This study suggests that unmarried parents' commitment to their relationship is likely to decline if they have a child with poor health, particularly in families with a lower socio-economic status.
• Category: Parenthood/Childrearing > Attachment
• Center for Research on Child Wellbeing • December 01, 2003