Kosten und Nutzen aktiver Vaterschaft
Erstellt von Hans-Georg Nelles am Donnerstag 13. September 2007
Unter dem Titel ‘The Costs and Benefits of Active Fatherhood’ ‘Fathers Direct’ (das britische Thinktank in Sachen Väter und Vaterschaft) has conducted an extensive review of international evidence about the costs and benefits of active fatherhood, to help inform the development of policy and practice.
Why this Research Review?
The Research Review we present here has been compiled out of the realization that, in many policy areas, failure by policy makers and practitioners to address fathers’ behaviour and concerns results in less than adequate provision for mothers and children. What is clear to us, is that the impact fathers have on their families, and, in particular, on their children – an impact that is sometimes positive and sometimes negative – is, in the main, going unrecognized. This Review is an attempt to fill this gap.
Content of this Research Review
• Section 1 – Active Fatherhood in Context – sets the scene
• Section 2 – Rationale and Research Issues – addresses key research issues, including the research base for this Review
• Section 3 – Fathers in the Perinatal Period and Section 4 – Fathers’ Roles in Child Development look at fathers’ contributions, (mainly in two parent families) to the social, emotional and cognitive development, the education and achievement, and the physical health of the children in their care, from infancy, through elementary school age, to adolescence, young adulthood and – in a few instances – to middle age.
• Section 5 – Fathers and Family Change focuses on children whose parents do not live together, although much of the research in the previous section is also relevant here.
• Section 6 – Vulnerable Fathers and their Children and Section 7 – Working with Vulnerable Fathers – explores fathers’ roles and professionals’ engagement with them in families facing severe deprivation or multiple challenges.
• Section 8 – Fathers, Mothers, Work and Family looks at issues relating to gender equity and child wellbeing
• Section 9 – Fathering the Future briefly considers active fatherhood and community development, and fathering (and grandfathering) in older age.
Die 100seitige Schrift können Sie hier als pdf Datei beziehen.
Sonntag 23. September 2007 um 21:03
Tatsächlich ist diese Literaturstudie schlichtweg DAS Kompendium zum Thema „Was engagierte Vaterschaft bringt & wofür Väter gut sind“.
Umso besser, dass das dritte Kapitel der Studie – über werdende und frischgebackene Väter – in einer überarbeiteten Version auf deutsch erscheinen wird, und zwar in dem Sammelband: „…Vater sein dagegen sehr? Die neue Rolle des Mannes rund um die Geburt“ , herausgegeben von Michael Abou-Dakn, Eberhard Schäfer und Achim Wöckel. Der Band erscheint im Frühjahr 2008 im Psychosozial-Verlag Gießen.