HDFS201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Father, Egocentrism, Helicopter Parent

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Human Development and Family Studies
• Course: HDFS201
• Professor: Robin Palkovitz

Document Summary

Not just how you spend time and money. Shallower - don"t develop much of a relationship; on the sidelines, hey this weather how are you . Early and late: both quantitative and qualitative results to document, on-time, off-time, dose effects, father involvement literature, involvement is distributed across children. Builds case for positive father involvement having child outcome effects. Growing evidence that father involvement influences fathers" development. The more involved, the more career advancement up to a certain level. If you"re too involved with your kid, it"s bad for career advancement; moderate amount is good for career advancement: u-shaped between parental involvement and anxiety. Because kids have germs, throw up, mess up your clothes, etc. ; if you have high anxiety, involvement is going to be hard for you > low involvement. Cumulative fathering (palkovitz has over 132 years of fathering experience) Dramatic increase in technology and companies" use of cheaper labor abroad.