Employment leave and fathers' involvement with children: According to mothers and fathers

Men and Masculinities

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 405-427

  Seward, Rudy Ray ^a,c   Yeatts, Dale E ^a,c   Amin, Iftekhar ^a   Dewitt, Amy ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

^b Glenville State College   (United States)

^c Department of Sociology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Child care; Employment leave; Fathers; Parental leave; Parenting; Work and family

Indexed keywords

EID: 33644609761     PISSN: 1097184X     EISSN: 15526828     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1097184X05277689     Document Type: Article

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