scholarly journals Parenting style and the active involvement of fathers in child-rearing

JAHR ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-125
Author(s):  
Maja Brust Nemet ◽  
Gabrijela Vrdoljak ◽  
Viktorija Livaja Budaić
Keyword(s):  
Parent Involvement ◽  
Child Care ◽  
Parenting Style ◽  
Father Involvement ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Leisure Activities ◽  
Child Rearing ◽  
Active Involvement ◽  
Supportive Parenting ◽  
Parental Awareness

The active involvement of fathers in child-rearing affects the child’s overall growth and development, and the parenting style impacts the direction of the influence on individual aspects of a child’s life. In order to achieve gender equality in society, it is necessary to raise public awareness of the importance of a father’s gender role, a desirable parenting style, and his inclusion in all aspects of family life. The aim of the research is to determine the level of father involvement in child-rearing, as well as the dominant parenting style based on the children’s assessment. A total of 290 pupils from 10 elementary schools in Osijek-Baranja County participated in this research, all of whom were in grades 5-8. Sociodemographic data, the 2018 parent involvement questionnaire - URU18, and the parenting behavior questionnaire 29 - URP29 were used. The results are in line with research conducted so far, and they indicate the importance of a father’s education and a supportive parenting style aiming at his involvement in housework and child care. Father’s education significantly presupposes his involvement in housework, taking care of school-related duties and obligations, and participation in leisure activities. A supportive parenting style is a significant positive predictor of all forms of father involvement, i.e., housework, school-related duties and obligations, activities, child care, and counseling. The results of this research indicate the importance of raising parental awareness of the importance of the supportive parenting style and the fathers’ involvement in child-rearing.

Does grandparental child-care provision affect number, satisfaction and with whom leisure activities are done?

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Merih Ates ◽  
Valeria Bordone ◽  
Bruno Arpino
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
Fixed Effects ◽  
Leisure Activities ◽  
Care Provision ◽  
Care Giving ◽  
The Family ◽  
Role Enhancement ◽  
Number Frequency ◽  
Rich Information ◽  
The Impact

Abstract This study investigates the impact of non-intensive and intensive supplementary grandparental child care on grandparents’ involvement in leisure activities. Three aspects of leisure activities are investigated: the number/frequency of activities, with whom they are carried out and the subjective satisfaction with them. Beside the possibility of a cumulation effect, the literature suggests that providing grandparental child care might compete with other activities, especially for women. Thus, we consider role enhancement and role strain theories to derive our hypotheses. We use longitudinal data from the German Ageing Survey (DEAS) which contains rich information on the leisure activities of people aged 40 and older. To account for selection into the provision of grandparental child care, we use a within-unit estimation approach (fixed-effects panel models). Our results show that both grandfathers and grandmothers tend to engage in more leisure activities when they provide grandparental child care. While care-giving grandfathers become more likely to engage in activities with family members without changing their engagement outside the family, we found no effect for women in this respect. Nevertheless, grandparental child-care provision modifies satisfaction with leisure activities only for women, reducing it, independently from with whom leisure activities are carried out. These findings suggest that a higher quantity of leisure activities does not necessarily imply higher quality.

scholarly journals WIDOWER’S AGE AND NUMBER OF CHILDREN AFFECT PARENTING STYLE AND REMARRIAGE DECISION

2022 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 29
Author(s):  
Frisilia Octaviana Yolanda ◽  
Hermanto Tri Joewono. ◽  
Dwi . Aprilawati
Keyword(s):  
Parenting Style ◽  
Maternal Death ◽  
Significant Relationship ◽  
Maternal Mortality Ratio ◽  
Single Parents ◽  
Child Rearing ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Number Of Children ◽  
Mortality Ratio ◽  
And Function

Highlight:1. The widow will outsource childcare to other people, such as the widow's mother, stepmother, aunt, or other relatives who believe they know more about childcare after the wife's death.3. There was a significant relationship between widower’s age and the number of children affecting parenting style and remarriage decision.Abstract:Background: The high maternal mortality ratio automatically represents the highest number of widowers in Indonesia. The change of status from a husband to a widower does not rule out the possibility of being able to change his role and function in the family. Objective: To describe that the widower’s age and the number of children have an impact on the parenting style and the desire to remarry. Materials and Methods: This study was an observational study with a cross-sectional design. Husbands who had been left by their wives for two years or more owing to maternal death and had one or more children before the wife's maternal death were the subjects of this study. Widower’s age, as well as kid’s parenting patterns before the death of the mother were recorded. This study was likewise subjected to an ethics review and relied on informed consent. Results: Widowers who had one child before their wife's death and decided to remarry accounted for 7 subjects (87.5%), while those who did not remarry accounted for 5 (31.3%). On the association between a widower’s age and child-rearing practices, there were two respondents (40%) who chose to entrust their children’s care to someone else or not to be cared by themselves. Conclusion: There was a significant relationship between widower’s age and the number of children and the parenting style and remarriage decision. Single parents who decided to remarry were single parents at a relatively younger age.

Father Involvement, Father–Child Relationship Quality, and Satisfaction With Family Work

2013 ◽  
Vol 35 (13) ◽  
pp. 1846-1867 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam M. Galovan ◽  
Erin Kramer Holmes ◽  
David G. Schramm ◽  
Thomas R. Lee
Keyword(s):  
Relationship Quality ◽  
Division Of Labor ◽  
Marital Quality ◽  
Father Involvement ◽  
Family Systems Theory ◽  
Child Rearing ◽  
Family Work ◽  
Actor Partner Interdependence Model ◽  
Child Relationship ◽  
Post Hoc

Using family systems theory and an actor–partner interdependence model, we examine the influence of the division of family work (including fathers’ participation in child rearing) on father–child relationship quality, satisfaction with the family work division, and marital quality. The strongest effect on both spouses’ marital quality is wives’ perception of father–child relationship quality. Following this, wives’ perceptions of father participation in child rearing are positively associated with both spouses’ reports of marital quality. Furthermore, both husbands and wives report higher marital quality when they are more satisfied with the division of labor. When wives report their husbands have greater responsibility for family tasks, both spouses report higher satisfaction with the division of labor. Post hoc analyses revealed that wives are more satisfied with the division of labor when they work with their spouse rather than alone. All findings support a systemic relational orientation to family work, the division of roles, and relationship quality.

Childcare support and child social development in Japan: investigating the mediating role of parental psychological condition and parenting style

2021 ◽  
Vol 376 (1827) ◽  
Author(s):  
Masahito Morita ◽  
Atsuko Saito ◽  
Mari Nozaki ◽  
Yasuo Ihara
Keyword(s):  
Social Development ◽  
Parenting Style ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Child Rearing ◽  
Maternal Child Health ◽  
Psychological Condition ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Parental Characteristics ◽  
Complex Relationships

In humans, support from partners and alloparents is crucial for successful child-rearing and optimal child development. However, the complex relationships among childcare support, children's outcomes and parental characteristics have not been fully examined. We investigate how three sources of partner and alloparental support—partner's childcare participation, support from children's grandparents and support from non-kin—can be associated with child social development. We hypothesize that the associations between childcare support from partners/alloparents and child social development are partly mediated by parental psychological condition and parenting style. To test this, we conducted path analyses on online survey data collected in 2016 from parents of 3- to 5-year-old children in Japan. We found no evidence that childcare support had direct positive effects on child social development. Rather, the benefit of childcare support was mediated by its effects on parental psychological condition and parenting style, which in turn improved children's outcomes. At the same time, we found some evidence that greater availability of childcare support was directly associated with more behavioural difficulties in children. Our findings reveal the complex pathways between childcare support, parental characteristics and children's outcomes in Japan, showing potential mechanisms behind parental and alloparental effects in industrialized populations. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Multidisciplinary perspectives on social support and maternal–child health’.

The Handicapped Child

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1951 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 158-158
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
Medical Profession ◽  
Handicapped Child ◽  
Child Rearing ◽  
Growing Up

Despite the best efforts of the medical profession, there continue to be parents whose children are handicapped either in their senses or in their limbs. For these parents, devoid as they often are of the joy of seeing their child growing up normally, and plagued as they are by both fears and guilt, Mrs. Stern and Miss Castendyck have written this book. As they themselves point out, it is neither a general manual on child care nor encyclopedic in terms of illnesses, but it stresses "the fact that good principles of child rearing apply equally to the normal and the handicapped."

scholarly journals A study on father’s knowledge and attitude towards their role in child care in selected areas of Mangalore with a view to develop an informational booklet.

2013 ◽  
Vol 03 (02) ◽  
pp. 063-068
Author(s):  
Roshin M. S. ◽  
Sujatha R.
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
William Shakespeare ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Attitude Scale ◽  
Demographic Variables ◽  
Child Rearing ◽  
Monthly Income ◽  
Secondary School Education ◽  
Knowledge And Attitude ◽  
Structured Questionnaire

Abstract “It is a wise father who knows his own child” - William Shakespeare In today's modern and fast changing society, families are becoming nuclear; mothers are professionally oriented and having busy jobs. Father's participation in child care is necessary due to progressive involvement of mothers in jobs outside the home. Hence the responsibility of child rearing has extended to fathers also.In this study father's knowledge is assessed by self structured questionnaire and attitude using attitude scale. The findings revealed that majority of the fathers 88(44%) were in the age group of less than 30 years, 110 (55%) were having more than 2 siblings, 92 (46%) were st on the 1st order of birth, (46.5%) completed Secondary school education,106 (53%) were having private job, 200(100%) were married and living with spouse,82 (41%) of their children have above 2yrs. 116 (58%) fathers were Hindus, 79 (39.5%) were having monthly income of less than Rs5000/ -and 124 (62%) fathers do not have previous information regarding child care. The result also shows 94 (47%) fathers were having average knowledge regarding child care, 69 fathers (34.45%) have poor knowledge and 37 (18.5%) fathers were having good knowledge. There is significant correlation between knowledge and attitude of fathers regarding their role in child care. There is significant association between knowledge and demographic variables but marital status has no significant association between knowledge and also significant association seen between attitude and demographic variables.

Parental Leave and Father Involvement in Child Care: Sweden and the United States

2002 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 387-399 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rudy Ray Seward ◽  
Dale E.Yeatts ◽  
Lisa K. Zoitarelli
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Child Care ◽  
Father Involvement ◽  
Parental Leave ◽  
The United States

Ethnic Differences in the Effects of Intergenerational Relations on Adolescent Problem Behavior in U.S. Single-Mother Families

2006 ◽  
Vol 27 (8) ◽  
pp. 1137-1158 ◽  
Author(s):  
En-ling Pan ◽  
Michael P. Farrell
Keyword(s):  
Drug Use ◽  
Problem Behavior ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Father Involvement ◽  
Single Mother ◽  
Child Rearing ◽  
Adolescent Problem Behavior ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Single Mother Families

This study examines whether the effects of single-mother families (SMFs) on adolescent problem behavior are buffered by supportive mothering and the involvement of nonresident fathers and whether the effectiveness of these two buffers varies by ethnicity. Based on the data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, the authors find that supportive mothering within SMFs buffers their effects for most groups. Compared to other ethnic groups, Asian American mothers’ supportiveness is less effective in buffering the impact on drug use. For Black adolescents, nonresident father involvement buffers the effects on delinquency and drug use. However, Asian American and Hispanic father involvement in SMFs is associated with increased problem behavior. The findings suggest that ethnic groups with more experience dealing with SMFs may be ahead of those with less experience in developing child-rearing practices that buffer the effects of SMFs on problem behavior.

Parent involvement in child care settings: conceptual and measurement issues

2006 ◽  
Vol 176 (5) ◽  
pp. 521-538 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gail L. Zellman ◽  
Michal Perlman
Keyword(s):  
Parent Involvement ◽  
Child Care ◽  
Measurement Issues
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