Smith College School for Social Work.
Yale University School of Medicine.
Child Dev. 2017 Mar;88(2):398-407. doi: 10.1111/cdev.12744. Epub 2017 Feb 1.
To address the problem of fathers' absence from children's lives and the difficulty of paternal engagement, especially among lower income families, government agencies have given increasing attention to funding father involvement interventions. Few of these interventions have yielded promising results. Father involvement research that focuses on the couple/coparenting relationship offers a pathway to support fathers' involvement while strengthening family relationships. Relevant research is reviewed and an exemplar is provided in the Supporting Father Involvement intervention and its positive effects on parental and parent-child relationships and children's outcomes. The article concludes with policy implications of this choice of target populations and the need to develop new strategies to involve fathers in the lives of their children.
为了解决父亲在孩子生活中的缺失问题以及父亲参与度低的问题，尤其是在低收入家庭中，政府机构越来越关注为父亲参与提供资金支持。这些干预措施中很少有产生预期效果的。关注夫妻/共同养育关系的父亲参与研究为支持父亲参与提供了一条途径，同时也加强了家庭关系。本文回顾了相关研究，并提供了一个支持父亲参与的干预措施的范例，以及它对父母关系、亲子关系和儿童发展结果的积极影响。文章最后讨论了选择这些目标人群的政策意义，以及需要制定新策略让父亲参与孩子生活的必要性。
