- Deception detection and forensic psychology
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Child Abuse and Trauma
- Family Dynamics and Relationships
- Memory Processes and Influences
- Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving
- Child Welfare and Adoption
- Child and Animal Learning Development
- Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare
- Infant Health and Development
- Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
- Cognitive Abilities and Testing
- Child Development and Digital Technology
- Family and Disability Support Research
- Reproductive Health and Technologies
- Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
- Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
- Child Therapy and Development
- Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences
- Family Support in Illness
- Children's Rights and Participation
University of Cambridge
2015-2024
University of Plymouth
2024
California Institute of Technology
2019-2023
University of Gothenburg
2023
University of California, Davis
2021
Victoria University of Wellington
2019
Lancaster University
2019
Nottingham Trent University
2018
Centre d’études en sciences sociales du religieux
2018
University of Amsterdam
2018
The twentieth century has been characterized by four important social trends that have fundamentally changed the cultural context in which children develop: women's increased labor force participation, absence of nonresidential fathers lives their children, involvement intact families, and diversity U.S.. In this essay, we discuss how these are changing nature father family life, turn affecting children's fathers' developmental trajectories. We end with an eye toward twenty‐first examining...
Throughout the 1990s, scholars interested in fatherhood have generated a voluminous, rich, and diverse body of work. We selectively review this literature with an eye toward prominent theoretical, methodological, substantive issues. This burgeoning literature, complemented by social policy makers' heightened interest fathers families, focuses on at least 4 key ways. First, theorists studied as cultural representation that is expressed through different sociocultural processes embedded larger...
Father–child and mother–child engagements were examined longitudinally in relation to children's language cognitive development at 24 36 months. The study involved a racially/ethnically diverse sample of low‐income, resident fathers (and their partners) from the National Early Head Start evaluation ( n =290). videotaped for 10 min home during semistructured free play, status assessed both ages. Fathers' mothers' supportive parenting independently predicted outcomes after covarying...
SUMMARY Both our understanding and operationalization of fatherhood father involvement have changed over time. Fatherhood has always been a multifaceted concept, although time the dominant or defining motif shifted in turn from moral guidance to breadwinning sex-role modeling, marital support, finally nurturance. As result these changing concepts, extent viewed indexed different ways at times. In late 1960s early 1970s, when societal concerns about effects fatherlessness were coming fore,...
SYNOPSIS.Human fathers are more involved in childcare than males of most other mammalian species.The authors describe several studies designed to determine how much time spend with their children and this compares the extent involvement by mothers.On average, 25 35% as mothers do direct interaction children.Factors affecting degree paternal then described.These factors include: Motivation, skills, support, institutional practices.Researchers have demonstrated that human can be competent...
LAMB, MICHAEL E. Father-Infant and Mother-Infant Interaction in the First Year of Life. CHILD DEVELOPMENT, 1977, 48, 167-181. 20 infants were observed interacting with their mothers fathers at home when they 7, 8, 12, 13 months age. Infants showed no preference for either parent display attachment behaviors, though both parents consistently differentiated from a relatively unfamiliar investigator on these measures. This indicates that clearly attached to beginning relations. Preferences...
The Children's Depression Inventory, Child Behavior Checklist, and Youth Self-Report were completed by mothers, fathers, their 8- to 12-year-old children assess the effects of various types domestic violence on children's behavior problems depression. One hundred ten Israeli from lower-class families identified through social service records. Thirty-three had been physically abused parents within last 6 months, 16 witnessed spouse abuse, 30 both victims witnesses violence, 31 experienced no...