Family Men: Fathers as Coparents in Diverse Contexts and Family Structures, volume II

Download or read book Family Men: Fathers as Coparents in Diverse Contexts and Family Structures, volume II written by Sarah E. DeMartini and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2024-12-12 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Significant contextual changes over the past few decades have suggested that mother-focused models of science do not accurately capture fathers’ involvement as caregivers and coparents. Extant research, such as the study from Cabrera and their team in 2018, has debunked myths that paint fathers solely as secondary caregivers, “hands off” parents, and absent fathers. On the contrary, recent studies have suggested that fathers exert significant direct and indirect influences on child development and partner relationship quality via coparenting – how parents work with or against each other to care for their children (e.g. the studies from Farr & Patterson in 2013; Kuo and their team in 2017; McHale and their team in 2019; Murphy and their team in 2017 and Schoppe-Sullivan & Fagan in 2020). According to McHale and their team's research in 2019, coparenting has been of interest to family systems researchers, clinicians, as well as intervention and preventionists, due to this construct capturing whole-family dynamics. While much of coparenting literature has focused on gender differences in the roles and involvement of opposite-sex coparents, such as the research from Carone & Lingiardi in 2022. However, we know less about coparenting in alternative family structures, particularly gay father coparents, as mothers are heavily emphasized in extant literature.