Objective This study examines the re-employment prospects and short-term career consequences for mothers fathers who lost their jobs during COVID-19 pandemic. Background The pandemic recession has been dubbed a “shecession,” but few studies have explored whether paid higher or lower price upon labor market re-entry than fathers. Method draws on March 2020–December 2022 Current Population Survey...

In this study, the authors examined the parenting practices, developmental expectations, and stress levels of 136 fathers and the challenging and prosocial behaviors of their 1- to 5-year-old children. In addition, the authors systematically addressed fathers' qualitative concerns about their parenting. The authors divided the participants into 4 groups and controlled for family socioeconomic s...

This paper uses data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (N 1⁄4 2,098) to examine differences in the parenting practices of four types of resident fathers, defined by their biological relationship to a focal child and their marital status with regard to the focal child’s mother. Regression results suggest that biological fathers and social fathers (i.e., stepfathers or mothers’ ...

This study estimates random effects and difference-in-difference-in-differences models to examine the initial impacts of COVID-19 on employment hours unincorporated self-employed workers using monthly panel data from Current Population Survey. For these workers, were visible in March as voluntary social distancing began, largest April complete shutdowns occurred, slightly smaller May some restr...

Cabrera, Fagan, and Farrie’s research provides a useful springboard to encourage scholars to think broadly and productively about theoretical, substantive, methodological, and social intervention issues related to men’s prenatal experiences, transitional life course events, and subsequent engagement with their young children. To their credit, the authors have taken valuable ‘‘baby steps’’ on th...

Nonresident African American (AA) fathers sometimes face challenges to achieving satisfaction with their parenting skills, which may inhibit their motivations for parenting. Studies have found that residential history of fathers is associated with parental involvement; however, current fatherhood programs rarely consider the influence of different residential history on fathering. In the curren...

Building on prior research showing fewer parenting risk behaviors and lower levels of harsh punishment among less acculturated Hispanic parents, we tested the hypothesis that foreign-born (FB; immigrant) Hispanic parents use less spanking toward children at 3 years and 5 years of age than U.S.-born Hispanic parents. We also examined whether other indicators of acculturation-endorsement of tradi...

This study examines the social context of men's health and health behaviors in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, particularly in relationship to fathering and fatherhood. Individual interviews and focus groups were conducted with 51 Zulu-speaking men. Three themes related to men's health emerged from the analysis of transcripts: (a) the interweaving of health status and health behaviors in des...

Abstract Recently, parental burnout has received considerable attention. However, to what extent can be distinguished from job in general? Furthermore, is the direction of relationship between and burnout? These questions remain explored. The present study sought determine burnout, examining effects on fathers mothers sample separately. Study 1 aimed provide further evidence distinction burnout...