Over the last twenty years it has become recognized that fathers play a crucialrole in child development and subsequent adult status and behaviour. This bookpre... » 

Over the last twenty years it has become recognized that fathers play a crucialrole in child development and subsequent adult status and behaviour. This bookpresents the stateoftheart on fathering and its determinants. Based onoriginal research into the effects that different styles of fathering can haveon children it explores the long and short terms outcomes of involvedfathering on different domains of childrens lives including academicachievement mental health socioeconomic status adolescent relationships anddelinquency. «