Strategies to Enhance Father Engagement in Home Visiting: Results From a Qualitative Study of Dads Matter-HV

Bellamy, James A.; Phillips, J. D.; Speer, Stephanie Rachel; Harty, Justin S.; Banman, Aaron; Guterman, Neil B.; Morales-Mirque, Sandra

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“…More recently, researchers have begun to study father engagement in home visiting, and the parent–worker relationship is thus emerging as a factor in variations of father and mother engagement in services. For example, a recent study of the Dads Matter-HV intervention found that the father-worker relationship mediated his engagement in services, and workers also qualitatively described their approaches to engaging mothers and fathers in home visiting services differently (Bellamy et al, 2023; 2022). Similarly, research examining mothering and fathering as separate constructs demonstrates that mothers and fathers engage differently in parenting, maintain unique predictors, and report differential impacts on child well-being and development (Rienks et al, 2011).…”

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Parent–Worker Relationships in Home Visiting: Intersections of Parental Gender, Ethnicity, and Immigrant Status

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Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Service

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Despite home visiting’s established legacy, the potential influence of intersecting parental characteristics on parent–worker relationships is less understood. This study examines the main and interaction effects of parents’ demographic characteristics on positive relationships with workers in home visiting and compares whether and how these effects differ between fathers and mothers. This study analyzed 130 mothers and 180 fathers who participated in home visiting services. Immigrant status was a significant predictor of positive worker relationships for mothers and fathers, whereas ethnicity was only significant for fathers. Interaction analyses indicated that U.S.-born Hispanic/Latinx fathers faced greater challenges in building positive worker relationships than their foreign-born counterparts. These findings highlight the importance of developing gender-specific and culturally responsive strategies to enhance parent–worker relationships.

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confidence: 99%