Beginning with a summary of the history of public policy contributions to poverty and racial inequity in America, the report describes how this context impacts black fathers, and how their circumstances and choices in turn affect black children. It concludes with an overview of the Julia Carson Responsible Fatherhood and Healthy Families Act of 2009 (which subsequently died and was re-introduced in 2011 and 2013)
The term “Deadbeat Dad” is often associated with Black fathers, suggesting they have relinquished th...
Common stereotypes portray black fathers as being largely absent from their families. Yet while blac...
The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the role African American fathers' play in healthy bi...
Responsible fatherhood legislation bridges the gap between two explicit family policies in order to ...
Over the last few decades increasing rates of single mother households in the United States have tri...
Since the mid-1990, promoting responsible fatherhood has remained on the national policy agenda, but...
Fathers play two integral and related roles in promoting their children’s well-being: (1) they provi...
“What makes an absent, uninvolved father change his behavior and take on his paternal responsibiliti...
texts and current profiles of father involvement in African American families; 2) identify barriers ...
Parental involvement affects the academic achievement that children experience. When parents are inv...
This report focuses on various concerns of African Americans in South Carolina such as poverty, birt...
This report provides a history of the issue of fatherhood in policy debates and philanthropic action...
This paper includes a review of the literature on why fathers matter and statistical data on fathers...
This report provides a portrait of Black men as active contributors to the care economy—discussing w...
The recent reckoning over racial injustice, kindled by the hyper-criminalization of and excessive us...
The term “Deadbeat Dad” is often associated with Black fathers, suggesting they have relinquished th...
Common stereotypes portray black fathers as being largely absent from their families. Yet while blac...
The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the role African American fathers' play in healthy bi...
Responsible fatherhood legislation bridges the gap between two explicit family policies in order to ...
Over the last few decades increasing rates of single mother households in the United States have tri...
Since the mid-1990, promoting responsible fatherhood has remained on the national policy agenda, but...
Fathers play two integral and related roles in promoting their children’s well-being: (1) they provi...
“What makes an absent, uninvolved father change his behavior and take on his paternal responsibiliti...
texts and current profiles of father involvement in African American families; 2) identify barriers ...
Parental involvement affects the academic achievement that children experience. When parents are inv...
This report focuses on various concerns of African Americans in South Carolina such as poverty, birt...
This report provides a history of the issue of fatherhood in policy debates and philanthropic action...
This paper includes a review of the literature on why fathers matter and statistical data on fathers...
This report provides a portrait of Black men as active contributors to the care economy—discussing w...
The recent reckoning over racial injustice, kindled by the hyper-criminalization of and excessive us...
The term “Deadbeat Dad” is often associated with Black fathers, suggesting they have relinquished th...
Common stereotypes portray black fathers as being largely absent from their families. Yet while blac...
The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the role African American fathers' play in healthy bi...