“…Promoting healthy parenting behaviors by father may prevent future problems (Marshall, English, & Stewart, 2001). A number of contextual factors can affect paternal involvement and outcomes sought by CPS, including relationship status between the mother and father of the child, history of incarceration, poverty and SES, and other neighborhood factors (Connell, Bergeron, Katz, Saunders, & Tebes, 2007; Marbley & Feruguson, 2005). Despite these concerns, the relationship between fathering and child protection has been overlooked in the literature (Brown, Callahan, Strega, Walmsley, & Dominelli, 2009).…”