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Showing 1 to 20 of 936 for “"Fathers"”.
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Fathers Are Fathers Are Fathers: How Sociocultural Context and Sexual Orientation Influence the Gendering of Children
… to see how the specific context in which fathers live may impact their differential parenting of sons and daughters, their gender beliefs, and the way they feel they would navigate gender nonconformity in their children. To explore how fathers’ sexual orientation and sociocultural …
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Fathers at Work: Challenges and Stereotypes Facing Fathers with Caregiving Responsibilities in Employment
This study explores how caregiving fathers are perceived in contemporary employment to establish if this contributes to an understanding of the dominance of fathers in the role of ‘breadwinner’. Much existing research in this area is based in the US, largely utilising students as participants, and …
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Single Fathers And Social Support
Single fathers have, for the most part, been overlooked in research, even though the proportion of children being raised by custodial fathers has been steadily increasing since the 1970s. This exploratory study aims to understand the factors that single fathers take into consideration when deciding …
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Fathers' Involvement and Children's Health
… and the mediating effects of family integrity in fathers' involvement and child health were examined in two separate studies. The first study includes 760 fathers from a national survey project. Involvement, parenting beliefs, and demographic variables were used to predict child health and health …
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Fathers as co-parents: how non-resident fathers construe family situations after divorce or separation
… parenthood, were conducted with separated fathers (n=14) from throughout Strathclyde. Thematic analysis of the results suggests that while participants recognised the importance of maintaining relations with the other parent, that relationship was seen as adversarial, and fathers frequently …
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Bringing fathers into F.O.C.U.S.: The lived experiences of fathers who completed a community based fatherhood programs
… study was to explore the lived experiences of fathers who were formally involved in the public child welfare system and completed a community based fatherhood program. Using symbolic interactionism, identity theory, and the responsible fathering model as theoretical frameworks, the study …
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The Pastoral Theology of the Apostolic Fathers
… patterns in the New Testament and Apostolic Fathers. More recently, studies have either argued for discontinuity between these periods, significant diversity among postapostolic documents, or outside forces having primary influence on the nature and development of early Christian leadership. …
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Heart of the Fathers, for Wind Symphony
Heart of the Fathers is a programmatic, seven movement work for wind symphony depicting my ancestors and their role as part of the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The movements represent their spiritual experiences, labors, times of joy, persecution, migration, and …
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Exploring fathers' experience of behavioural family therapy
… of having BFT and no known research has explored fathers’ experiences of BFT. More generally, limited research has explored fathers’ experiences across other types of family therapy. This is interesting in the light of theories suggesting fathers benefit from family approaches and are considered …
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Effects on fathers of children with disabilities
This thesis investigates the effects on fathers of parenting children with disabilities. In the firstchapter, models of family functioning and parental adaptation to disability are discussed. This is followed by an overview of the effects of disability on family members and a review of the …
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Fragmenting Fatherhoods? Fathers, Fathering and Family Diversity.
… and the consequences of this complexity for fathers as they negotiate fathering in their everyday lives. Drawing upon data from the British Household Panel Survey it provides a quantitative exploration of the paternal careers of British fathers born between 1920 and 1979, illustrates the …
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Factors associated with coparental relationships: fathers' perspectives
… factor in the postdivorce adjustment of mothers, fathers, and children. In this study, guided by General Systems Theory and Ecological Theory, data from 225 divorced fathers was used to explore a set of selected variables which were predicted to affect the quality of their coparental relationships …
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Stay-at-home Fathers in Contemporary Urban China
This research investigates stay-at-home fathers (SAHFs) as an emerging gendered identity in contemporary urban China. Being a SAHF constitutes an unconventional gender role in China, which has been marginalised by longstanding prejudice against men who are not the main wage-earners in the family …
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Nonresident fathers parenting and child and adolescent development
<p>ABSTRACT</p> <p>NONRESIDENT FATHERS PARENTING AND CHILD AND ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT</p> <p>by</p> <p>HEMA OSHOONE MASON</p> <p>August 2011</p> <p>Advisor: Dr. Douglas Barnett</p> <p>Major: Psychology</p> <p>Degree: Doctor of Philosophy, Psychology (Cognitive, Developmental and Social …
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