Paternity Leave‐Taking and Father Engagement

The father of nuclear medicine: establishing paternity.

Longitudinal and reciprocal associations between coparenting conflict and father engagement.

The major goal of the present study was to examine the reciprocal and longitudinal associations between coparenting conflict and father engagement with children during the early childhood years. Using data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Survey--Birth Cohort (N = 3600), the findings supported the hypothesis that father engagement at 9 months has a significant effect on coparenting conflic...

Mexican American Mothers and Fathers' Prenatal Attitudes and Father Prenatal Involvement: Links to Mother-Infant Interaction and Father Engagement.

The present study examines the associations between Mexican American mothers' and fathers' pregnancy intentions, fathers' participation in prenatal activities and mother-infant interactions and father engagement with 9 month-old infants in a nationally representative sample of 735 infants and their parents participating in the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study - Birth Cohort. After controlling...

Genetic marker analysis in cases of disputed paternity when the alleged father is deceased.

Data are presented to demonstrate the utility of genetic marker analysis in cases of disputed paternity in which the alleged father is deceased prior to testing. The first case involves the histocompatibility (HLA) typing of the alleged father's parents and presumed mother and child, in which the deceased alleged father (AF) was not excluded from paternity. The second case involves a similar si...

Paternity exclusion and probability of paternity.

The principles of paternity exclusion and current systems of paternity testing are reviewed. Recent advances, especially the utilization of human leukocyte antigens (HLA), have greatly improved the likelihood of exclusion of the innocent accused male. Failure to exclude an alleged father through multiple test systems increases the suspicion that he is the biological father. This can be expresse...