Predictors and outcomes of low-income fathers’ reading with their toddlers

Influence of family socioeconomic status on IQ, language, memory and executive functions of Brazilian children

“…Also, they are more likely to invest in their children through books, providing special lessons, or availability of a computer, for example (Carneiro et al 2013). That exposure to written material is essential for language development (Marturano 2006) and there is evidence that children whose parents read to them when they are very young are more prepared for the development of reading when they enter school due to their early contact with books (Duursma et al 2008;Kuo et al 2004). The lower the family SES, less frequent is the practice of literacy (Breit-Smith et al 2010;Grieshaber et al 2012).…”

Paternal Support of Emergent Literacy Development: Latino Fathers and Their Children

“…As one subculture within the larger Latino com munity in the United States, the experiences of Englishspeaking Latinos are not identical to the experiences of Spanishspeaking Latinos, who tend to be recent immigrants. Of particular relevance to this study, results of a study of fatherchild book sharing demonstrated that lowincome fathers were more likely to read to their children frequently if they spoke English at home (Duursma et al, 2008). Researchers have also found a positive asso ciation between English language and nurturing activities for Mexican fathers (Capps et al, 2010), suggesting that some dimensions of acculturation shape parenting across different groups and may predict father involvement behaviors.…”

“…One such parentchild activity, book reading, has both a welldocumented influence on children's emergent literacy (Caspe, 2009;Duursma, Pan, & Raikes, 2008) and a recognized presence among Latino fathers and their children (Saracho, 2007). Although parentchild booksharing is well studied within psychological research, by and large, these investigations have tended to focus on motherchild interactions.…”

Predicting receptive vocabulary change from childhood to adulthood: A birth cohort study

“…However, when considering the literature looking at language more generally, of those studies that do consider paternal educational attainment there is a growing body of evidence of the role fathers may also play in supporting children's language development during both early childhood and more long-term. For example in the toddler years, paternal book reading has been shown to predict children's receptive language on the PPVT only for children whose fathers had at least high school education (Duursma, Pan, & Raikes, 2008), with another study showing father language input (and not mothers), made a unique contribution to child language development at 24 months (Pancsofar & Vernon-Feagans, 2006). Looking at the preschool years, Zambrana et al (2014), found that from 3 to 5 years of age lower paternal education (and not maternal) increased the odds for persistent and late onset language problems.…”