Supporting Fathers' Engagement with Their Kids

Raising Children: Emerging Needs, Modern Risks, and Social Responses

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Cowan, Philip A ^a   Cowan, Carolyn Pape ^a   Cohen, Nancy ^b   Pruett, Marsha Kline ^c   Pruett, Kyle ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Cancer Lifeline   (United States)

^c SMITH COLLEGE   (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Child development; Co parenting; Family systems; Father involvement; Fatherhood interventions; Prevention

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920567201     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195310122.003.0003     Document Type: Chapter

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