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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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Counting Couples, Counting Families.

Counting Couples, Counting Families is the full report of the National Center for Family & Marriage Research 2011 conference. The materials are a culmination of the third Counting Couples conference in 2011 and two previous national conferences in 2001 and 2003 detailing comprehensive…

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P.A.L.S.--Partners in Achieving Life Skills: A Cost Effective Model to Prevent Child Abuse and Neglect by Teenage Parents.

This manual provides guidance in planning and implementing a parenting skills program for adolescent parents, as a means of preventing child abuse and neglect among this population. The curriculum is entitled Partners in Achieving Life Skills, or P.A.L.S. The guide addresses such topics as conducting a needs assessment, which includes assessing the client population's needs, the available community resources, and the sponsoring agency's capabilities; writing a mission statement and creating goals and objectives; establishing a client base; recruiting, managing, and acknowledging volunteers;…

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Fathers: A Placement Resource for Abused and Neglected Children?

This paper describes an exploratory study of 17 custodial and 18 noncustodial fathers that addressed how fathers get custody, how situations where fathers get custody differ from those where they do not, and how satisfactory father placements are. Data suggest that the father may not be a very good placement resource for his maltreated child because he, like the child's mother, has not escaped many of the syndromes or behaviors that are often associated with maltreatment. In addition, the relative suitability of father placements versus formal foster care placements cannot be determined…

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