Coparenting Relationship Quality, Father Involvement, and Paternal Prioritized Roles

What is it about?

Analyzes data collected from parents receiving services from an urban Healthy Start program related to coparenting relationship quality, attitudes toward fathers' involvement, and the roles that fathers should prioritize in their parenting.

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Why is it important?

The results revealed that mothers had divergent opinions from fathers about the roles that fathers should prioritize in their parenting. Qualitative analyses revealed a link between coresidence and reports of good fathering. Furthermore, the reported discrepancies were related to fathers' expectations that mothers facilitate their involvement and mothers' expression of fatigue and resentment from feeling responsible for having to facilitate fathers' involvement.