0 present participle of father --
1 to become the father of a child by making a woman pregnant: --
He's fathered three children.
The literature on 'father involvement' has increasingly focused on developing measures of 'positive' involvement, that is, fathering practices likely to promote the development of the child.
Gornick refreshingly asks if it is gender inequality within families, and the assumption of gender divisions in care, that are the real problem in undermining partnering and fathering.
It was not possible to elicit systematic evidence as to the influences on fathering or, more importantly still, their relationship one to the other, from these interviews.
Recall that these fathering data were gathered at only 6 of the 10 research sites at when children were 6 and 36 months, but at all sites at 54 months.
While rather different, all these uses of 'being there' share the idea of commitment to fathering.
Once again order of entry of positive and negative fathering did not substantially affect the findings.
This can mean everything and nothing, which is why it is not listed as a separate dimension of fathering.
For women fertility was defined as having one or more live births and for men fathering a child.
