BACKGROUND Despite robust evidence of fathers' impact on children and mothers, engaging with fathers is one of the least well-explored and articulated aspects of parenting interventions. It is therefore critical to evaluate implicit and explicit biases manifested in current approaches to research, intervention, and policy. METHODS We conducted a systematic database and a thematic hand search ...

OBJECTIVE To identify and describe first-time fathers' experiences of normal childbirth. DESIGN A qualitative interview study using a thematic analysis for analysing the transcripts. PARTICIPANTS purposeful sampling was used. Eight men were interviewed two to six months after experiencing childbirth. Participants were men who had become fathers for the first time. SETTING A county located...

This paper examines father involvement in childcare from the perspective of couples’ co-participation care tasks and factors associated with fathers’ time performed by fathers alone. Drawing on Korean Time Use Survey 2014, a sample dual-earner parents preschool aged children, results show that spent alone was considerably less than mothers. About 80% mothers’ total compared 59.5% for fathers. F...

The purpose of this study is to examine how father's psychological variable of role awareness affects parenting participation. Data were collected by the survey in fathers of 363 children in public kindergartens and national/public and private nurseries and analyzed by using multiple regression analysis. The results showed that fathers perceiving their role of educating (for cognitive developme...

background : mental health is of great importance in childhood and the foundation of personality of every individual is laid during this period. moreover, behavioral problems are common in children, and a lot of the individual, familial, and social disorders originate from the fact that these problems are not treated at the right time. more important is that the behavioral problems of children ...