Tag: Responsible Fatherhood Education

For the Children: Does Couple and Relationship Education Influence Child Well-Being Through Enhanced Couple Functioning?

by Hailey Palmer

The Bottom-Line First: The Supporting Father Involvement program is a co-parenting, preventative intervention aimed at strengthening the couple relationship and increasing the quantity and quality of fathers’ involvement. An evaluation study published just last month reported that the Supporting Father Involvement program reduces couple conflict and by so doing leads to less harsh parenting which leads to fewer child behavior problems. Continue reading “For the Children: Does Couple and Relationship Education Influence Child Well-Being Through Enhanced Couple Functioning?”

Results of the Parents and Children Together Responsible Fatherhood Program Evaluation

by McKell Jorgensen and Alan J. Hawkins

The Bottom Line First: While this blog focuses on healthy relationship and marriage education, an important, parallel field of responsible fatherhood education also exists. Researchers, however, have not given a lot of attention to the effectiveness of responsible fatherhood programs. But a recently released, large-scale, rigorous study – Parents and Children Together helps to fill that void. The study found that these programs increased fathers’ engagement and nurturing behavior with their children, but struggled to have other impacts. Continue reading “Results of the Parents and Children Together Responsible Fatherhood Program Evaluation”