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Current research, such as recent neuroscience findings about how
fathers impact children's brain development.
Not exact matches
«The roothas been sociological factors — as family breakdown has increased and
children are split between their mothers and
fathers at weekends, regular Church attendance is less consistent and is having an
impact.
Mark Stibbe considers the
impact on
children growing up without a
father I was born in 1960 to a single parent mum.
To put the point another way, if 9/11 drove to church for weeks on end millions of Americans who had not darkened that doorstep in years — as it did — imagine the even deeper
impact on ordinary mothers and
fathers of a sick
child or the similarly powerful desire of a devoted spouse on the brink of losing the other.
Isaiah's comparisons of God's love with that of a mother (49:15; 66:13), Jesus» longing to protect Jerusalem's
children as a mother hen gathers her chicks under her wings (Luke 13:34), the
impact of the prodigal son's return on the
father — all these took on new meaning.
It is fear, it is torture, it is the
impact on the family, it is the loss of work and income, it is the tragedy that affects
children when they see the violence used in taking their
father away and demolishing him as a person, it is the amazing deterioration of life's possibilities, it is losing one's dreams to become a professional and independent person or becoming someone who could participate more actively in democracy.»
Conversely, low interest by
fathers in their
children's education (particularly boys) has a stronger negative
impact on their achievement than contact with the police, poverty, family type, social class, housing tenure and
child's personality [2].
An independent evaluation of the
impact of the
Fathers Reading Every Day programme on more than 300
children at nine south London schools, found that for
children who participated in FRED there was marked improvement at above expected levels in reading, writing and numeracy, when compared to peers who did not take part.
«
Father -
child relationships can have a profound and wide - ranging
impact on the
child that lasts a lifetime.
father -
child relationships — be they positive, negative or lacking, at any stage in the life of the
child, and in all cultural and ethnic communities — have profound and wide - ranging
impacts on
children that last a lifetime.
The
impact of
fathers» physical and psychosocial work conditions on attempted and completed suicide among their
children.
The
Impact of a
Father on His
Child After the birth, a baby is usually scared, screaming, flailing around, and quite frankly, just pissed off that he's been born.
• There is limited involvement by
fathers in their
children's academic development, and limited understanding of the
impact and value of their involvement.
A body of research has shown the negative
impact on
children of
fathers» employment stress (Galinsky, 1999):
Being involved in one local area for so long enabled us to really get across the message that engaging
fathers needs a whole - team approach, and that it's vital to help mothers understand how much
fathers impact of the development of
children Kathy Jones, Fatherhood Institute project lead
One third of
fathers live apart from their
children, experiencing a unique range of challenges which often
impact negatively on work performance.
The event will consider a whole school approach to engaging
fathers, the
impact on
children's attainment and present the resources for undertaking it.
• When
fathers in families with disabled
children play a reduced role in childcare and childrearing responsibilities, the
impact on mothers and — directly and indirectly — on their
children, is negative and often profound (Lamb & Laumann - Billings, 1997).
«The course helped me understand that reading can have a big
impact on
children, and that there are barriers that stop a
father.
depression (Wilson & Durbin, 2010), leading others to speculate that this may often be often the case (Cummings et al, 2010), given that
father -
child interactions tend to be more negatively
impacted than mother -
child interaction by family stressors.
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fathers and their
impact on
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There is now clear evidence that
fathers» perinatal depression can
impact negatively on their
children.
This comparison looks at how the two systems
impact on five factors: • the positive or negative involvement of
fathers in
children's and women's lives • wider attitudes about the roles and responsibilities of
fathers • equality between women and men and their human rights • the
child's right to know his or her natural parents • practicability
My own family, while unusual in some respects, perhaps offers a useful example of how thoughtful one might need to be to fully capture the diversity of
fathers» experiences and their
impacts on
children.
In the US, paediatricians are being urged to address
fathers» smoking, not only because of the
impact on their health but because of productivity issues:
children from smoking households miss an extra six days of school a year (Dake et al, 2006).
• One factor that, in most cases, over-rides the
impact of
fathers» leave - taking on
fathers» time spent with
children later is mothers» employment: the more hours mothers work and the more they earn, the more involved
fathers tend to be, whether or not they took much leave in the first year (Baxter and Smart, 2011; Lammi - Taskula, 2008; Yeung et al., 2001).
If you're looking to encourage more dads to value their role in reading with their
children, do also check out our Youtube video channel, which includes Celebrity Story Time videos and testimonies from dads who have participated in FRED; and our research summary about
fathers»
impact on young
children's language and literacy.
• Long - term negative
impact on
children of
fathers» depression may, as with depressed mothers, relate to chronicity: i.e. depressed new parents may continue to be depressed or function negatively in some manner in the longer term (Ramchandani et al, 2008), an hypothesis supported by Cox et al (1987) who found adverse mother -
child interaction patterns continuing beyond the period of depression.
Even if this argument were to be accepted, we must still consider the potential
impact of the current and proposed UK systems on the wellbeing and safety of
children and their parents — especially given the likely greater vulnerability of the 7 % of families where no
father is registered.
Carey Casey works with the National Center for
Fathering, a nonprofit organization seeking to improve the lives of children and establish a positive fathering and family legacy that will impact future generations by inspiring and equipping fathers and father figures to be actively engaged in the life of eve
Fathering, a nonprofit organization seeking to improve the lives of
children and establish a positive
fathering and family legacy that will impact future generations by inspiring and equipping fathers and father figures to be actively engaged in the life of eve
fathering and family legacy that will
impact future generations by inspiring and equipping
fathers and
father figures to be actively engaged in the life of every
child.
Further,
fathers» mental health had a long - term
impact, leading to differences in
children's social skills (such as self - control and cooperation) when the
children reached fifth grade.
Furthermore, since the
impact of
father absence on
child development is often negative; since absent
fathers can loom large in their
children's imaginations, often unhelpfully as «heroes or villains» (Kraemer 2005); and, since
father absence can cause their
children substantial distress and self - doubt (Laumann - Billings and Emery 1998), current thinking is moving away from the idea of severance of unconstructive
father -
child relationships as a simple solution.
Since mothers usually spend more time with their
children than
fathers do, their
impact on their development is more obvious, and has been more thoroughly studied.
It's now clear that even a
father who spends little time at home or does not live with his
child can have an
impact as much by what he doesn't do, as by what he does (Amato & Sobolewski, 2004).
Research shows that a
father's involvement in drug prevention with their
children can have a significant positive
impact.
Their perspectives on fatherhood * Nearly 50 % of the conceptions were described as a complete surprise, and only three were planned * Nearly two - fifths (37 %) of the prospective
fathers had had previous
children; most still had some contact with the
children but only two were still living with them and were engaged as actively involved
fathers * Two - thirds (65 %) described themselves as having a low or medium sense of reality about their impending fatherhood * Three - quarters were expecting the baby to have a noticeable
impact on their way of life * Three - quarters were motivated to learn more about pregnancy and fatherhood, with partners, family and friends seen as the most important source of information * Very few thought about health professionals as a potential source of support and advice, and some would have liked to have talked to one but felt awkward about it.
A review by Goldman (2005) of five studies using multivariate analyses which isolate the independent
impact of
fathers» involvement in
children's learning on educational outcomes, clearly shows that
fathers» involvement (both in terms of level and frequency) in their
children's schools is a key factor that correlates with better educational outcomes for
children.
• Every Parent Matters (DfES, March 2007) argues that «
father -
child relationships — be they positive, negative or lacking — have profound and wide ranging
impacts on
children that last a lifetime.»
However, research now shows that
fathers have substantial
impact on
children's development too (for the most recent research summary, see Lamb & Lewis, 2004).
This focuses on the fact that, with a huge disparity between paternity leave (2 weeks) and maternity leave (52 weeks), the current system penalises women by effectively forcing them into staying off work to look after the
children, with a consequent negative
impact on their earning potential; not to mention the limiting effect it has on men's ability to be active
fathers at this crucial time.
This set of 5 posters promote the positive
impact of
father involvement on outcomes for
children in schools and learning.
In one analysis of cross-cultural data, researchers found that in 68 % of the societies sampled, the death of a
father had no
impact on his
children's survival.
What Christie - Mizell found is that it was
children's perception of how much time they spent with their
fathers that had the most
impact on bullying behavior.
You also may or may not know that the relationship the
father has with the mother of his
child can have significant
impacts on her chances of postpartum depression after baby arrives.
Nor did I realize how much positive
impact an involved
father can have on the life of his
child.
The long - term
impact is in proportion to the severity and length of the trauma as well as the degree the trauma interferes with the
child connecting with its mother and
father.
But, research shows in point of fact that
father figures do have positive and long - lasting
impacts on their
children just by engaging with them in affirmative and encouraging ways.
What was really news about the Zappa
children was not only that their
father was a famous rock star and that all the
children got incredibly unique baby names, but that unique baby names were just coming to the attention of people who decided that the name a
child was given was going to
impact the rest of his or her life.
Research on
fathers and their
impact on
children is not an easy thing.