Background Depression is experienced by women most often during their childbearing
years. 1 Over the last several decades, research has revealed that untreated maternal …

Despite the fact that most people become parents and everyone who has ever lived has had
parents, parenting remains a mystifying subject about which almost everyone has opinions …

In this chapter, we address a dynamic that lies inextricably at the core of most family systems
around the world—that of the coparenting collaboration operative between the important …

This study examines the efficacy of a prenatal intervention designed to promote healthy
coparenting relationships in families where low-income, unmarried mothers and fathers …

Background: Most prenatal preventive interventions for unmarried mothers do not integrate
fathers or help the parents plan for the development of a functional coparenting alliance after …

The purpose of this qualitative study was to identify recurring themes about impending
coparenthood common among prenatal dyadic conversations shared between unmarried …

Despite incontrovertible evidence documenting effects of fathering on child outcomes, social
work practice has unyieldingly resisted the pursuit of father engagement as a requisite …

McHale, Rao, and their colleagues have been encouraging 'emic'approaches to the study of
coparenting since the late 1990s, calling upon indigenous researchers to explore and …

Infants and toddlers throughout the world are cared for socialized and acculturated in
distinctive multi-person family collectives. The participation, teamwork, containment of child …

In this chapter, we synthesize the available empirical evidence, drawn primarily from the
United States, on the influence of fathers on children's development during the early years of …