Since it is June and the month we celebrate Father’s day, we wanted to share the following interesting research regarding father involvement  with you.

This document presents an updated overview of the key trends in the father involvement literature. While the authors are unable to provide methodological detail in such a succinct summary, they endeavoured to compile as accurately as possible, reliable research results that support these trends. It is clear from the research that father involvement has enormous implications for men on their own path of adult development, for their wives and partners in the co-parenting relationship and, most importantly, for their children in terms of social, emotional, physical, and cognitive development.  When fathers function as a source of practical and emotional support for mothers, they enhance the quality of the
mother-child relationship thereby facilitating healthy developmental outcomes
for children (Lamb, 2000)

http://www.fira.ca/cms/documents/29/Effects_of_Father_Involvement.pdf

© Centre for Families, Work & Well-Being, University of Guelph 2007 Although The Effects of Father Involvement: An Updated Research Summary of the Evidence Inventory is copyright protected, the authors and sponsors encourage readers to download the document from www.fira.uoguelph.ca or www.worklifecanada.ca and to photocopy or distribute with appropriate acknowledgement of the source, and would like to be informed about uses of this material in publications, conference, policy development or classroom. This project was funded by the Public Health Agency of Canada and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council CURA program.

To obtain additional copies of this report, please contact: FIRA-CURA Centre for Families, Work & Well-Being University of Guelph 17 University Avenue East Guelph, ON N1G 2W1 Tel: (519) 824-4120 ext 53829 Fax: (519) 823-1388