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The NRFC Library is a collection of materials to build a knowledge base around fathers, fatherhood, and operating a Responsible Fatherhood program. It also houses all resources created by the NRFC, including fact sheets, PSAs, and past webinars.

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Journal Article

Just Call Me Dad: Health and Social Benefits to Fathers and their Children.

In the past 20 years, social change and expectations for both maternal and paternal responsibilities have highlighted the need for services for families to better understand the role of a father in family relationships. In Australia, as well as internationally, there have been many contested…

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Fact Sheet

La Sonrisa de un Padre: Compartiendo, divirtiéndose y disfrutando la niñez (Spanish version of A Father's Laughter: Sharing the Fun and Joy of Childhood).

Esta hoja informativa ofrece consejos sobre como enseñar a los niños a manejar sus errores y a no verlos como una derrota sino como una forma de aprendizaje.

Fact Sheet

Tips for Workers Working With Dads: Flexible Approaches for Men Who Have Been Violent With Their Partners.

Fatherhood engagement involves a flexible approach where the engagement varies depending upon the father's risk levels and strengths. This list will help to assess risk/dangerousness and make decisions about how to engage a man who has a history of domestic violence. (Author abstract modified)

Journal Article

Coparenting and Relationship Quality Effects on Father Engagement: Variations by Residence, Romance.

This study examined whether coparenting support and social support had a stronger effect on father engagement with 3-year-olds among adolescent fathers compared with adult fathers. Using data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (N = 1,540), we found that coparenting support and paternal social support had a significantly stronger positive effect on adolescent fathers than adult fathers. The associations among coparenting, social support, and adolescent father engagement did not depend on whether the father and mother were romantically involved with each other. The results…

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Patterns and Predictors of Father-Infant Engagement across Race/Ethnic Groups.

This study examines whether levels of father engagement (e.g., verbal stimulation, caregiving, and physical play) vary by race/ethnicity using a model that controls for fathers' human capital, mental health, and family relationships. It also tests whether the models work similarly across race/ethnic groups. Its sample of N=5,089 infants and their families is drawn from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study - Birth Cohort (ECLS-B). We found that, after including controls, African American and Latino fathers had higher levels of engagement in caregiving and physical play activities than…

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Parental Resilience.

This fact sheet offers information on resilience for parents and offers tips for building resilience for difficult times.

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Social Connections.

This fact sheet discusses the importance of social connections for parents and provides tips for creating and maintaining positive social connections that can offer support.

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Concrete Support in Times of Need.

This fact sheet advises families when to ask for help and provides information on state resources in Florida.

Journal Article

Quality Matters: Low-Income Fathers' Engagement in Learning Activities in Early Childhood Predict Children's Academic Performance in Fifth Grade.

In a prospective, longitudinal investigation we examined fathers' engagement in learning activities with their children in early childhood in relation to children academic performance in 5th grade. Participants were 602 low-income, ethnically diverse biological fathers and their children from the National Early Head Start evaluation study. Fathers reported on their engagement with children in learning activities as well as their residency when children were two years, three years, and of preschool age; children were assessed on receptive language, reading and math skills in 5th grade.…

Fact Sheet

Preventing the Need for Child Support.

Part of a series of fact sheets that discuss how and why the child support program provides innovative services to families across six interrelated areas to assure that parents have the tools and resources they need to support their children and be positively involved in raising them, this fact sheet focuses on ways in which the child support program can help prevent the need for its services by promoting responsible childbearing and parenting choices and by raising awareness--especially among teenagers--of the financial, legal, and emotional responsibilities of parenthood. Examples of how…

Fact Sheet

Engagement of Fathers from Birth.

Part of a series of fact sheets that discuss how and why the child support program provides innovative services to families across six interrelated areas to assure that parents have the tools and resources they need to support their children and be positively involved in raising them, this fact sheet explains how the child support program can increase child support payments by positively engaging with fathers early on, encouraging fathers to be more involved in their children's lives, and helping them overcome obstacles to supporting their children--reducing the likelihood that they will…

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