Les auteures examinent dans cet article les mécanismes de soutien au rôle paternel. Les résultats sont tirés d’entrevues faites auprès de quinze pères de famille biparentale et de onze intervenants. Les deux groupes se prononcent sur la pertinence de différents services pour la population des pères. Le réseau de soutien informel des pères est également exploré. Les résultats révèlent que l’idée qu’ont les intervenants du soutien à offrir aux pères diffère de celle qu’en ont les pères eux-mêmes. L’examen du soutien informel indique que les pères s’adressent en majorité à leur conjointe pour obtenir de l’aide, alors qu’ils font peu appel à leur famille et à leurs amis. Ils se montrent peu intéressés à participer à des activités organisées par les services sociaux. À la lumière de ces résultats, la discussion explore les manières de soutenir les pères dans leur rôle à l’extérieur de la sphère privée de la famille en respectant leur réticence à recourir aux services sociaux.This article examines support mechanisms for the fathering role. Results come from interviews conducted with 15 fathers and 11 practitioners. Both groups gave their opinion on different services potentially offered to the population of fathers. We also looked at fathers’s informal support networks. Results reveal that practitioners have a different idea than fathers about the type of support to offer to fathers. Data on informal support indicate that fathers rely primarily on their spouse for help. They refer much less to their family and friends. They generally don’t want to participate in activities organized by social services. The discussion explores the ways in which fathers can receive support from outside the household without threatening their reluctance to ask for help in the context of social services

The framework proposed in this study revealed valuable information that can be useful to improve plans aimed at reducing heat-related health effects in the population.

This study aimed to identify the characteristics of current Canadian intervention programs designed to support father involvement. Sixty-one projects in the 10 provinces constituted the sample. Results show that most of the projects operate on limited budgets. The activities they offer mostly target fathers themselves to the exclusion of key people in their social environment. The discussion underscores the strenghts and weaknesses of father support programs, and guidelines for future intervention in this area are proposed.It is generally recognized today that children benefit from the presence of their father. Compared to children whose father is absent, those who maintain relations with him benefit affectively, cognitively, and morally, and make gains in the development of social skills and sexual identity (Amato & Gilbreth, 1999;Lamb, 2004). In contrast, the absence of the father, or his weak level of participation, is associated with depressive symptoms, behavioural difficulties, and low self-esteem in children (Phares, 1999). Even though it cannot be established with certainty whether these symptoms are associated with the father's absence or with the conditions of single parenting, research tends to show that, overall, children who are close to their father, rather than removed from him, display a better course of development. A connection has also been established between the father's sense of competence and the prevention of negligence towards children (Dubowitz, Black, Kerr, Starr, & Harrington, 2000).It has also been established that today's fathers are more involved than their own were (Pleck, 1997). Changes in the nature of the family, structurally and functionally, have had major impacts on the father's role. Single fathering and, in the case of joint custody, sharing the care and education of children when the mother works full-time, as well as alterations in gender and parental roles in general, have all increased the tendency among many fathers to invest more in their children. An American study shows that fathers who divorced during the 90s were more involved with their children than divorced fathers from the 80s (Hetherington & Kelly, 2002). Still, a large number of children gradually lose contact with their father, particularly following the separation of their parents (Marcil-Gratton & Le Bourdais, 1999).The positive impact of fathers' involvement with their children, their desire to get involved even though they have not been socialized to assume the care and 5

Child protection intervention is already complex, and it is further complicated when it concerns families from cultural diversity. Information on the cases of 48 visible minority children receiving protective services underwent qualitative content analysis. The caseworkers' interviews brought to light 2 issues central to the relationship between parents and caseworkers: their degree of collaboration and the cultural distance between their respective concepts of parental and spousal roles. Based on these issues, 4 types of family caseworker dynamics were identified, as well as suitable strategies for dealing with each of them. This study underscores the fact that visible minority families receiving child protective services are a far from homogeneous group and that there are a number of effective methods that can be used with them.

Des études récentes montrent que quelques années après un divorce ou une séparation, un nombre important de pères sont absents de la vie de leur enfant ou très peu impliqués dans leur éducation. En raison de ce problème social, quelques chercheurs en sciences humaines et sociales ont tenté de mieux comprendre ce phénomène et d’identifier les variables associées à l’engagement ou au désengagement des pères. Étant donné qu’un nombre croissant d’études ont porté sur cette question au cours des dernières années, nous proposons d’en faire une synthèse et d’identifier plus spécifiquement les variables associées au maintien de l’engagement des pères divorcés. L’analyse des écrits indique que certaines variables influencent différemment le maintien de l’engagement paternel post-divorce selon les contextes. Les variables les plus documentées sont : le degré d’implication et d’attachement du père envers ses enfants avant la rupture, son adaptation psychologique post-rupture, ses arrangements de garde, ses revenus, l’intensité avec laquelle il s’identifie à son rôle parental, le soutien social dont il bénéficie et la qualité de la relation entre les ex-conjoints. Les auteurs proposent en conclusion des pistes de recherche pour contribuer à l’avancement des connaissances dans le domaine.