Research on the Social Importance of Fathers and Men in General

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Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity

• Understanding the “new Father” Model in the Inner City (2013)

Pew Research Center

• A Tale of Two Fathers: More Are Active, but More Are Absent (2011)
  

Child Trends

• Parents Matter: The Role of Parents in Teens’ Decisions about Sex (2009)
  

Heath and Human Services Child Information Gateway

• The Importance of Fathers in the Healthy Development of Children

Joint Center Health Policy Institute

• Men and Communities: African American Males and the Well-Being of Children, Families, and Neighborhoods (2006)
  

Leading Women for Shared Parenting

• compilation of research
  

National Center for Fathering

• compilation of research
  

National Fatherhood Initiative

• father-absence statistics
  

• Warshak, R.A. (2014). Social science and parenting plans for young children: A consensus report. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law. 2014, Vol. 20, No. 1, 46–67.
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• McLanahan, S., Tach, L., Schneider, D. (2013). The causal effects of father absence. Annual Review of Sociology. Vol. 39: 399-427.
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• Cable, N., Bartley, M., Chandola, T., Sacker, A. (2012). Friends are equally important to men and women, but family matters more for men’s well-being. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, doi:10.1136/jech-2012-201113.
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• Kerr, D.C.R., Capaldi, D.M., Owen, L.D., Wiesner, M., Pears, K.C. (2011). Changes in at-risk American men’s crime and substance use trajectories following fatherhood. Journal of Marriage and Family 73: 1101–1116.
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• Alio, A.P., Mbah, A.K., Kornosky, J.L., Marty, P.J., Salihu, H.M. (2010). The impact of paternal involvement on feto-infant morbidity among Whites, Blacks, and Hispanics. Maternal and Child Health Journal. 14(5): 735-41.
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• Carr, D. & Springer, K. W. (2010). Advances in families and health research in the 21st century. Journal of Marriage and Family, 72, 743-761.
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• Edin, K. & Kissane R. J. (2010). Poverty and the American family: a decade in review. Journal of Marriage and Family, 72, 460-479.
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• Goncya, E.A., & van Dulmena, M.H. (2010). Fathers do make a difference: Parental involvement and adolescent alcohol use. Fathering, 8, 93-108.
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• McLanahan, S. (2009). Fragile families and the reproduction of poverty. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 621, 111-131.
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• Bronte-Tinkew, J., Horowitz, A., & Scott, M. E. (2009). Fathering with multiple partners: Links to children’s well-being in early childhood. Journal of Marriage and Family, 71, 608–631
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• Guterman, N.B., Yookyong, L., Lee, S. J., Waldfogel, J., & Rathouz, P. J. (2009). Fathers and maternal risk for physical child abuse. Child Maltreatment, 14, 277-290.
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• Jordahl, T., & Lohman, B.J. (2009). A bioecological analysis of risk and protective factors associated with early sexual intercourse of young adolescents. Children and Youth Services Review 31, 1272–1282.
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• McBride, B.A., Schoppe-Sullivan, S.J., Ho, M. (2005). The mediating role of fathers’ school involvement on student achievement. Applied Developmental Psychology 26, 201–216.
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