Fathering across Diversity and Adversity: International Perspectives and Policy Interventions

FRANK F. FURSTENBERG the past few decades, scholarship and policy interest in fatherhood, as an institutional position with associated public meanings, and fathering, as sets of activities and emotions, has burgeoned. In research terms, it has taken a trajectory from being relatively ignored in the 1970s and 1980s, through being a hot in the 1990s, and then emerging as a relatively established subspecialty of several disciplinary fields in the early years of the twenty-first century. The breadth of research on the topic ranges across developmental, social, and cultural concerns and encompasses both