Fathers’ Perspectives on Supports and Barriers That Affect Their Fatherhood Role
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Tanya M. Coakley, Professor (Creator)
- Allyson L. Kelley, Adjunct Instructor (Creator)
- Tyreasa Washington, Associate Professor (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
Abstract: This qualitative study explored resident and nonresident fathers’ perspectives about factors that facilitated and inhibited their ability to play a positive and active role in their children’s lives. A total of 30 fathers were recruited from a support/mentoring group and from the general population to complete a semi-structured, audio-taped interview. A content analysis revealed that both groups of fathers were committed to maintaining a relationship with their children, and that by being present, they protected their children, helped them emotionally and financially, helped in their overall development, acted as a role model, and shared parenting responsibilities with their children’s mothers. Factors that facilitated parenting for resident and nonresident fathers included receiving proper guidance about fathering, a positive mother-father relationship, support from family, and church. Inhibiting factors were more prevalent for nonresident fathers that included mothers obstructing the father-child relationship, negative views/remarks about them as fathers, father-child visitation that is contingent upon child support, and fathers’ financial difficulties. The findings suggest a need for coparenting counseling, faith-based interventions, and employment services to address the complex socio-economic challenges that fathers face.
Fathers’ Perspectives on Supports and Barriers That Affect Their Fatherhood Role
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Sage Open, Volume 4
- Language: English
- Date: 2014
- Keywords
- behavioral sciences, social sciences, sex & gender, sociology, social work, interpersonal communication, human communication, communication studies