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Product Description: This easy to read book is full of down to earth advice and illustrated with black and white pictures of fathers and children.

Product Description: Diaries of a Forgotten Parent: Divorced Dads on Fathering Through and Beyond Divorce opens an intimate window on the lives of divorced men. Literature on divorce focuses primarily on its effects on women and children, but fair and personal accounts of the lived experiences of custodial and non-custodial fathers are less available...read more

Product Description: Families come in all sizes, shapes, and traditions, each a unique variation of a universal human theme. Whether one comes from a heterosexual, single-sex, or one-parent home, stability and love are paramount. Unfortunately, in the United States, the absence of fathers from their children’s lives has become a real problem...read more

Product Description: Father-child interactions are thought to benefit children's development by supporting positive outcomes and buffering negative outcomes (Halle et al., 1998). As we see a decline in the proportions of children living with their fathers' policy makers, researchers and practitioners are paying more attention to father involvement (Coley, 2000; Lamb, 1997)...read more