How To Raise Emotionally Healthy Children is a wake-up call to America that we are abandoning our children emotionally. Failure to support our children's emotional health at home and in schools is jeopardizing their future and that of our nation. The book has a compelling and provocative message about parent-child relations. It provides powerful and practical concepts and tools that enable parents, teachers, and childcare providers to interact with children and with each other in emotionally healthy ways. In the process, children learn to interact with each other in the same way. How to Raise…
NRFC Quick Statistics and Research Reviews, Brief
This compilation includes information and research findings on the child development of children who reside with their fathers. Fact sheets are provided that address: the cognitive, social, emotional, motor development, and health of infants and toddlers ages birth through 2; the cognitive, social, emotional development, externalizing behavior problems, health, and physical development of children in early childhood from 2 through 6 years; the academic achievement, performance, socioemotional development, and externalizing behavior problems of children in middle childhood ages 7 through 10…
NRFC Quick Statistics and Research Reviews, Brief
This fact sheet includes information and research findings on the child development of children who are ages 7 through 10 years and reside with their fathers. Research results are shared on father engagement; father supportiveness; father responsibility; and father warmth, sensitivity, and closeness and their impact on academic achievement, socioemotional development, and externalizing behaviors of the children. References are provided for the data cited.
NRFC Quick Statistics and Research Reviews, Brief
This fact sheet includes information and research findings on the child development of adolescents who are ages 11 through 18 years and reside with their fathers. Research results are shared on father warmth, sensitivity, and closeness; father engagement; father supportiveness; and father restrictiveness, harshness, and controlling behaviors and their impact on academic achievement, the socioemotional development, and externalizing behavior problems of the adolescents. References are provided for the statistics cited.
NRFC Quick Statistics and Research Reviews, Brief
This fact sheet includes information and research findings on the child development of adolescents who are emerging adults ages 18 years and older who reside with their fathers. Research results are shared on father warmth, sensitivity, closeness and engagement and their impact on academic and work achievement/performance, socioemotional development, and externalizing behavior problems of the young adults. References are provided for the statistics cited.
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Journal Article Accounts of fathers' reluctance to engage with locally based family learning groups rarely acknowledge the relationship between learning and identity. This tends not to be the case in parallel accounts of women's reluctance to become involved in groups or networks where the mainstream clientele is male. Drawing on the case study of a national initiative aimed at developing family literacy in local communities throughout the UK, it is argued that decisions to join or not to join these groups is primarily social and cultural rather than individual. This means that the attendance of fathers…
NRFC Quick Statistics and Research Reviews, Brief
This compilation includes information and research findings on the child development of children who do not reside with their fathers. Fact sheets are provided that address: the cognitive, social, emotional, health, and motor development of infants and toddlers ages birth through 2; the cognitive, social, emotional development and externalizing behavior problems of children in early childhood from 2 through 6 years; the academic achievement, social development, and externalizing behavior problems of children ages 7 through 10 years; the externalizing and internalizing behavior problems,…
NRFC Quick Statistics and Research Reviews, Brief
This fact sheet includes information and research findings on the child development of children who are ages 7 through 10 years and do not reside with their fathers. Research results are shared on father-child contact, father engagement, and father financial support and their impact on academic achievement, social development, and externalizing behaviors of the children. References are provided for the data cited.
NRFC Quick Statistics and Research Reviews, Brief
This fact sheet includes information and research findings on the child development of adolescents who are ages 11 through 14 years and do not reside with their fathers. Research results are shared on father-child contact, father engagement, and father financial support and their impact on externalizing and internalizing behavior problems, academic performance, and the social development of the adolescents. References are provided for the statistics cited.
NRFC Quick Statistics and Research Reviews, Brief
This fact sheet includes information and research findings on the child development of adolescents who are ages 15 through 18 years and do not reside with their fathers. Research results are shared on father-child contact, father engagement, and father financial support and their impact on externalizing and internalizing behavior problems, academic performance, and the social development of the adolescents. References are provided for the statistics cited.
