Fatherhood in the Twenty-First Century

• Published in: Child development Vol. 71; no. 1; pp. 127 - 136
• Main Authors: Cabrera, Natasha, Tamis-LeMonda, Catherine S., Bradley, Robert H., Hofferth, Sandra, Lamb, Michael E.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, USA and Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishers Inc 01.01.2000; Blackwell Publishers; University of Chicago Press for the Society for Research in Child Development, etc; Blackwell Publishing Ltd
• Subjects: Changes; Child; Child care; Child Development; Child Development - physiology; Child rearing; Child, Preschool; Childhood Attitudes; Children; Context Effect; Culture; Expectation; Family - psychology; Family Life; Family Structure; Father-Child Relations; Fatherhood; Fathers; Futures (of Society); Gender roles; Humans; Individual Development; Life Span Development; Men; Mothers; New Directions for Child Development in the Twenty-First Century; Parent Child Relationship; Parent Role; Parenting - trends; Parents; Parents & parenting; Social Change; Social conditions & trends; Social context; Sociocultural Patterns

The twentieth century has been characterized by four important social trends that have fundamentally changed the social cultural context in which children develop: women's increased labor force participation, increased absence of nonresidential fathers in the lives of their children, increased...