The Importance of Father Involvement in Early Childhood Programs

Early Childhood Education Participation: A Mixed-Methods Study of Parent and Provider Perceived Barriers and Facilitators

“…Current methods of enlisting parents in ECEC research inadvertently target mothers as they are typically more engaged in all ECEC service types. The experiences, thoughts, feelings, and behaviors of fathers have been neglected in early childhood research (Ames, Glenton, & Lewin, 2017 , Ancell, Bruns, & Chitiyo, 2016 ), but are likely very important for understanding how family dynamics might influence ECEC participation. This information could be particularly instructive for the development of strategies to address maternal role beliefs that block ECEC participation.…”

Family-Centered Early Intervention (FCEI) Involving Fathers and Mothers of Children Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing: Parental Involvement and Self-Efficacy

“…Yet, when fathers' sense of PSE and their ideas about their roles as a father of a child in EI are taken into account, certain contextual barriers no longer predicted father involvement [41]. Fathers show benefits of involvement in FCEI, such as experiencing increased self-confidence, feeling more satisfied with the parenting role and more connected to their child, and being less distressed [40].…”

“…Increasingly in recent years, fathers have been more highly involved within family systems, which often has a positive impact on the family [12,31,33,39]. Unfortunately, however, this increased appreciation of the importance of fathers and the unique role that they can play in the lives of their young children has not necessarily shifted how FCEI support is provided to increase their ability to be involved [12,33,40]. Even in programs that celebrate family-centered approaches, programmatic or system-wide efforts to increase the involvement of fathers and better understand the factors that can support father involvement are not common [40].…”

Father's Involvement in Children's Distance Learning during the Pandemic

“…Father involvement in parenting plays a higher role in increasing all forms of human capacity, including cognitive-academic (Connor & Stolz, 2022;Volker J., 2014;Huerta et al, 2013;Tétreault et al, 2021), social-behavioral (Connor & Stolz, 2022;Liu et al, 2021;Ferreira et al, 2016), language (Ancell & Bruns, 2018;McCaig et al, 2021), physical motor (Craig et al, 2021;McCaig et al, 2021;X. Liu, 2019;Walsh et al, 2017) and emotional-psychological development (Connor & Stolz, 2022;Trumello et al, 2021;Liu et al, 2021;Mil et al, 2022).…”