Nurturing fatherhood was embedded in male biology long ago and likely laid evolutionary foundations for other fathering roles.
Lee T. GettlerJanuary 2021
Articles related to gender in childhood, from some of the world’s top child and family researchers.
Our articles on gender look at how children develop gendered roles within different kinds of families. They also cover how women and men modify their beliefs about gender roles when they become mothers and fathers.
This research on gay fathers contradicts beliefs that fathers have less innate caring ability than mothers and challenges the historical emphasis on mothers.
Child & Family Blog EditorApril 2020
Gender nonconforming youth are more likely to experience rejection and verbal, physical and sexual abuse from both parents and peers.
Child & Family Blog EditorFebruary 2020
How common stereotypes emerge in childhood: children don’t just learn from what adults say but also from what they don’t say
Child & Family Blog EditorNovember 2019
problem. Peer relations correlate strongly with later social and emotional development. Interventions seeking to reduce this negativity are important.
Child & Family Blog EditorOctober 2019
Less parental leave for same-sex male parents excludes them from benefits to child development.
Child & Family Blog EditorOctober 2019
The social effects of video games are hard to decipher. In this Norwegian study, more electronic gaming at 10 years old was linked to less…
Child & Family Blog EditorJuly 2019
A father’s brain is shaped much more by extent to which he is engaged in caring, or has been in the past: the more/less he…
Child & Family Blog EditorJuly 2019
