“It's Like. You Discover a New Sense of Being”: Involved Fathering as an Evoker of Adult Development

Men and Masculinities

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 49-69

  Palkovitz, Rob ^a   Copes, Marcella A ^b   Woolfolk, Tara N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b Criminal Justice and Applied Social and Political Sciences Department   (United States)

Author keywords

adult development; father involvement; fathering; generativity; parenting

Indexed keywords

EID: 84909151813     PISSN: 1097184X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1097184X01004001003     Document Type: Article

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