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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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Using Cellphone Technology in Fatherhood Programs and Research [Webinar and Slides].
Advancements in technology are changing the way we communicate with each other. Those advancements can also have a profound impact in the recruitment and engagement of individuals in human services programs. The sixth FRPN learning community webinar, Using Cellphone Technology in Fatherhood…
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Program design, implementation & evaluation (x)Racially/ethnically/culturally diverse populations (x)2000 (x)
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Scholarship on Fatherhood in the 1990s and Beyond.
Throughout the 1990s, scholars interested in fatherhood have generated a voluminous, rich, and diverse body of work. We selectively review this literature with an eye toward prominent theoretical, methodological, and substantive issues. This burgeoning literature, complemented by social policy makers' heightened interest in fathers and families, focuses on fatherhood in at least 4 key ways. First, theorists have studied fatherhood as a cultural representation that is expressed through different sociocultural processes and embedded in a larger ecological context. Second, researchers have…
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Incarcerated Parents and Their Children.
This report is the latest in a series based on the 1997 Survey of Inmates in State and Federal Correctional Facilities. Results of the survey show that in 1999 state and federal prisons held an estimated 721,500 parents of minor children. A majority of state (55 percent) and federal (63 percent) prisoners reported having a child under the age of 18. Forty-six percent of the parents reported living with their children prior to incarceration. The survey estimates that 336,300 U.S. households with minor children are affected by the imprisonment of a resident parent. The parents reported having…

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