“Look! There in the playground--with the stroller and diaper bag! It's Superdad! Yes, it's
Superdad—the most involved fathers in American history. And with this careful …

The Third Edition of George W. Holden's Parenting: A Dynamic Perspective provides a
highly accessible and intellectually rich review of what is currently known about parenting …

Infant care is no longer purely a private family matter. As more mothers return to paid
employment in their child's first year, governments develop provisions to support working …

The postpartum period is associated with many adjustments to fathers that pose risks for
depression. Estimates of the prevalence of paternal postpartum depression (PPD) in the first …

Demographic data show that major changes have been occurring in the everyday lives of
families over the last generation, with the majority of mothers of young children in the …

When the mountain won't come to Muhammad, sometimes the mountain must be dynamited,
carted off and dropped upon him. Heymann, the founder and director of the Project on …

This paper presents a policy analysis of fathers' use of paternity leave, parental leave and
flexible work practices across several industrialised countries. From the late 1990s there has …

This study explored whether there was a discrepancy between young adults' ideal and
expected participation in household and child care chores as well as what variables …

The United States lags behind other industrialized countries in its lack of inclusive parental
leave policy after the birth or adoption of a child. Using data from the Fragile Families and …

This article examines the relative impact of socioeconomic status as afundamental cause'of
health disparities in Canada and the US. Fundamental cause theory suggests that persons …