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FATHERHOOD HOME | MODULE 1 | MODULE 2 | MODULE 3 | MODULE 4 | RESOURCES
MODULE 1 RESOURCES: WHY FATHERS MATTER
1.1 | What is a Father Figure?
- The changing role of the modern day father – APA
- 12.5F: The Absent Father and Serial Fatherhood – Social Sci LibreTexts
- What Is Fatherhood? 11 Great Dads Outline What Fatherhood Means To Them – The Daily Dad
- Tracing The Expanding Definition Of Fatherhood – NPR
- Defined Fatherhood Lately?
- LGBTQ+ Dads Ice Seguerra, Paolo Maranan On The Beauty Of Fatherhood
1.3 | The Perinatal Period
- Journey Into Fatherhood Video
- Preparing for Fatherhood – National Center for Fathering
- Advice for New (or Soon-To-Be) Dads! – National Center for Fathering
- Get Ready to Be a Dad with a Fathers Assembly
- A Poem for Harrison, My Unborn Son – National Center for Fathering
- How Fatherhood Can Change You – National Center for Fathering
- Father-Inclusive Perinatal Parent Education Programs: A Systematic Review
- International Journal of Birth & Parent Education
- Promoting Fathers’ Mental Health During Children’s Early Childhood
- The Perinatal Dad – Engaging Fathers in the Perinatal Period to Support Breastfeeding: The Fatherhood Institute
- Anxiety in fathers in the perinatal period: A systematic review
- Assessing the Mental Health of Fathers, Other Co-parents, and Partners in the Perinatal Period: Mixed Methods Evidence Synthesis
- Most Ordinary Men: The Importance of Fathers During the Perinatal Period | WA Interagency Fatherhood Council
- The Experiences of First-Time Fathers in Perinatal Services: Present but Invisible – PMC
- JJ Parker: Why men’s perinatal care matters: Healthy fathers create healthy families – Chicago Tribune
- Paternal perinatal depression: It’s time we brought fathers into the perinatal agenda — Inspire the Mind
- Birth of a Father: Fathering in the First 1,000 Days – Bakermans‐Kranenburg – 2019 – Child Development Perspectives – Wiley Online Library
1.4 | Fathers within Family Systems
- Applying Whole Family Approaches in Responsible Fatherhood Programs
- Fathers Are Parents, Too! Widening the Lens on Parenting for Children’s Development
- Coparenting and Healthy Relationship and Marriage Education for Dads (CHaRMED)
- Family Systems Theory, Attachment Theory, and Culture* – Rothbaum – 2002 – Family Process – Wiley Online Library
- Attachment Theory and Fathers: Moving From “Being There” to “Being With” – Palm – 2014
1.5 | Fathers within Systems of Care
- Learning from an Early Childhood Nonprofit that Serves Fathers (Podcast)
- Video: A Conversation about Engaging Young Fathers in Human Services
- Video: A Conversation about Engaging Fathers in Home Visiting Programs
- Approaches for Engaging Fathers in Child Support Programs
- Keep Fathers Engaged Report
1.6 | Emotional Needs & Co-Regulation
- Mental Health of Dads
- Nurturing dads raise emotionally intelligent kids – helping make society more respectful and equitable
- It’s Time to Support Fathers’ Mental Health — Seleni
- The importance of new fathers’ mental health | Mark Williams | TEDxNantymoel
- We Need To Talk About Dad’s Mental Health | Psychology Today
- Father Attachment, Father Emotion Expression and Children’s Attachment to Fathers: The Role of Marital Conflict – PMC
- Mental Health and the New Father
1.8 | The Beauty of Fatherhood
- Fatherhood Can Change the World | Ned Schaut | TEDxRoseville
- What I’ve learned being a stay at home dad | Glen Henry | TEDxMidAtlantic
- And so I decided to become the world’s best dad | Hermann Jónsson | TEDxReykj…
- Joel Leon: The beautiful, hard work of co-parenting | TED
- TEDxToronto — Brandon Hay — Redefining Fatherhood
1.9 | COVID 19 & Fatherhood
- Fathering in a Pandemic
- Survey Results: Dads & Pandemic Challenges – National Center for Fathering
- 3 Ways Dads Have Grown: More Pandemic Survey Results – National Center for Fathering
- How the Pandemic is Strengthening Fathers’ Relationships with Their Children — Making Caring Common
- How Fatherhood Programs Supported Dads During the Pandemic
- For many dads, the COVID pandemic brought new perspectives on fatherhood
- Fatherhood During the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Father Engagement Lessons During COVID-19