ArticleChild development perspectives2019
Birth of a Father: Fathering in the First 1,000 Days.
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- Beyond snapshots: A systematic review of dyadic and triadic parent-adolescent ecological momentary assessment studies across diverse and general populations.Journal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence · 2026Pooled it
- What Makes Parents of Young Children Stressed? A Systematic Review of Quantitative Studies.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2026Pooled it
- Activation parenting in mothers and fathers: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Infant mental health journal · 2026Pooled it
- The Role of Paternal Involvement on Behavioral Sensitive Responses and Neurobiological Activations in Fathers: A Systematic Review.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2022Pooled it
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- Fathers' sensitive parenting enhanced by prenatal video-feedback: a randomized controlled trial using ultrasound imaging.Pediatric research · 2023Trial
- The prenatal video-feedback intervention to promote positive parenting for expectant fathers (VIPP-PRE): Two case studies.Infant mental health journal · 2022Trial
- Prenatal readiness for fatherhood, paternal engagement, and child social-emotional competence.Developmental psychology · 2026Article
- The relationship between fathers' involvement in infant care and infant attachment levels.Irish journal of medical science · 2026Article
- The paternal brain: longitudinal insights into structural and functional plasticity and attachment over 24 weeks postpartum.Translational psychiatry · 2026Article
- Testosterone Levels, Challenging Parenting Behavior, and Protective Parenting Behavior: A Correlational Study Among First-Time Fathers in the First Year of Fatherhood.Developmental psychobiology · 2026Article
- Father Trait Anger and Exposure to Infant Cry: Effects on Emotion, Appraisals of Infants, and Cognitive Performance.Journal of personality · 2026Article
- Fathers' experiences singing to their infants: an interpretative phenomenological analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Lived experiences, coping strategies, and relationship dynamics of women and men following miscarriage in Kampala district.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Risky family environment, white matter organization, and effective parenting in expectant fathers.Development and psychopathology · 2025Article
- Protocol for the SUPPORTED study: a Danish multicentre complex intervention for first-time fathers of preterm infants.BMJ open · 2025Article
- Do Child Gender Stereotypes Mediate Associations Between Human Fathers' Testosterone Levels and Paternal Involvement? Two Studies.Developmental psychobiology · 2025Article
- The relationship between the incidence of couvade syndrome and prenatal paternal attachment in prospective fathers and the affecting factors.BMC public health · 2025Article
- One and one makes three-mothers' and fathers' attachment, mentalizing and parenting sensitivity.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Best Practices for Recruiting and Retaining Fathers in Parenting Research: Insights from Fathering Researchers.Parenting, science and practice · 2025Article
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Abstract
As a result of societal changes, fathers participate more actively in child care than they used to. In this article, we propose a context-dependent biobehavioral model of emergent fatherhood in which sociocultural, behavioral, hormonal, and neural factors develop and interact during the first 1,000 days of fatherhood. Sociocultural factors, including different expectations of fathers and varying opportunities for paternal caregiving through paid paternal leave, influence paternal involvement. Levels of hormones (e.g., testosterone, vasopressin, oxytocin, cortisol) predict fathers' parenting behaviors, and involvement in caregiving in turn affects their hormones and brain responses to infant stimuli. The birth of the first child marks the transition to fatherhood and may be a critical period in men's lives, with a smoother transition to fatherhood predicting more optimal involvement by fathers in subsequent years. A focus on prenatal and early postnatal fathering may pave the way for developing interventions that effectively support fathering during pregnancy and in the first years of their children's lives.
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