More about the Dads: Exploring Associations between Nonresident Father Involvement and Child Welfare Case Outcomes

Malm, Karin; Zielewski, Erica H.; Chen, Henry

doi:10.1037/e690752011-001

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“…As it relates to foster care, father involvement outlines specific contributions such as visitation with their children and their financial or nonfinancial support to their children (Malm et al, 2008). This explains what it is that fathers must do to meet child welfare agencies' expectations regarding their readiness to promote children's development and well-being in stable, permanent families.…”

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confidence: 95%

“…Father involvement positively impacts children's psychosocial, academic, and permanence outcomes (Cryer & Washington, 2011;Flouri, 2005;Gable, Crnic, & Belsky, 1994;Malm, Zielewski, & Chen, 2008;Palkovitz, 2002;Pleck, 2010). As it relates to foster care, father involvement outlines specific contributions such as visitation with their children and their financial or nonfinancial support to their children (Malm et al, 2008).…”

Section: Background Father Involvementmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…Fathers experience a number of barriers to their child welfare involvement, which adversely affects their children's permanency outcomes (Coakley, 2008(Coakley, , 2012Malm et al, 2008). Some barriers are attributed to their own personal problems, such as substance abuse and mental illness (Jaffee, Caspit, Moffitt, Taylor, & Dickson, 2001;Waller & Swisher, 2006), and familial problems, such as, co-parenting and domestic violence issues (Allen & Hawkins, 1999;McLanahan, & Beck, 2010).…”

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“…Fathers are rarely identified in the case records, and there is a tendency for child welfare agencies not to view them as viable participants in their efforts to ensure children's safety, well-being, and permanence. As a result, they are not usually included in the case-planning process (see Malm et al, 2006Malm et al, , 2008O'Donnell, 1999).…”

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An Appraisal of Fathers' Perspectives on Fatherhood and Barriers to Their Child Welfare Involvement

Coakley

2013

Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment

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The present study provides insight into the extent and rationale of fathers' involvement with their children and the child welfare system. This qualitative study explored 12 child welfare-involved fathers' perceptions of fatherhood and factors that facilitate and inhibit case planning involvement. The findings indicate that most fathers strongly desired to stay involved with their children but felt they needed to overcome social workers' negativity, unfair agency policies and practices, and economic difficulties in order to complete their case plan goals and remain in their children's lives. Recommendations are provided for child welfare policy, practice, and research.

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Section: Background Father Involvementmentioning

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Section: Background Father Involvementmentioning

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Section: Background Father Involvementmentioning

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An Appraisal of Fathers' Perspectives on Fatherhood and Barriers to Their Child Welfare Involvement

Coakley

2013

Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment

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“…Fathers in the Dominelli et al study felt that they were mistrusted and unappreciated, and the concern was that the “good dad–bad dad” binary perception has informed practice in child welfare. Perhaps, due to the simplified perception of fatherhood, prior studies have shown that there is very little meaningful engagement occurring between child welfare agencies and fathers (Malm, Zielewski, & Chen, ; Malm et al, ). Moreover, attention paid to fathers deemed superficial and insufficient reflection of what may actually happen in practice (Featherstone, ).…”

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Nonresidential fathers with children in foster care: A descriptive study in the United States

Lee

Fagan

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2017

Child & Family Social Work

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This study used the data from 64 nonresidential fathers who had their children placed in foster care to describe their characteristics. The survey included questions about demographic background and personal challenges, the father's involvement with his child in foster care, the father's relationship with the mother, barriers to the father's involvement, and the relationship with child welfare agencies and workers. The average age of the participants was about 39 years, and the majority of them were African American. About 70% of the fathers reported low levels of education. Almost 69% of fathers reported frequent face‐to‐face contact with their children. On average, the participants were arrested 2.6 times, and it ranged from 0 to 34. More research is necessary to learn more about these fathers, develop programs to help them become a viable source for permanency option, and become more involved in their children's lives.

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Does fathers' involvement in services affect mothers' likelihood of reunification with children placed in foster care?

D'Andrade

2017

Children and Youth Services Review

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Social science literature shows associations between fathers' involvement with their children and beneficial developmental outcomes of those children. A related but smaller body of research in the child welfare services arena has found measures of father involvement to be positively associated with beneficial child welfare outcomes, including child's reunification with parent after placement in foster care. However, the pathway by which father involvement affects reunification likelihood has not been determined. This study builds on the existing body of literature by testing a theoretical basis for the relationship between father involvement (measured as service use) and mothers' reunification in a model controlling for family structure. I find that fathers' involvement in services improves mothers' likelihood of reunification, independently of family structure. Results suggest that agency efforts to involve fathers in services make sense both when the aim is to prepare the father for possible custody, and when the aim is to reunify the mother.

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More about the Dads: Exploring Associations between Nonresident Father Involvement and Child Welfare Case Outcomes

Cited by 6 publications

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An Appraisal of Fathers' Perspectives on Fatherhood and Barriers to Their Child Welfare Involvement

An Appraisal of Fathers' Perspectives on Fatherhood and Barriers to Their Child Welfare Involvement

Nonresidential fathers with children in foster care: A descriptive study in the United States

Does fathers' involvement in services affect mothers' likelihood of reunification with children placed in foster care?

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