CURRENT FATHERHOOD
RESEARCH AT MARYLAND

* Family Involvement in Schools
* Healthy Attachment Promotion for Parents and Infants
* Teen Mothers: Parenting and Children's Development
* Intensive Qualitative Study of Fathers

Maryland's Family Studies Department is activly involved in research about fathers and their families. Researchers are currently working on projects that include:

* Dads Make a Difference: Evaluation of a Teen Peer Trainer Program
* Family Processes, Intergenerational Learning, & Involved Fathering
* Parenting the First Year
* Patterns of Father Involvement in Low Income Families

Please go to the Family Studies Research web page for more information and a complete listing of ongoing research.

The Maryland Population Research Center (MPRC) is a multidisciplinary center dedicated to population-related research and housed in the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences (BSOS) at the University of Maryland. Faculty Associates include many of the Fatherhood Experts you'll find in our online database. The MPRC is providing support for the National Fatherhood Forum.

Research includes:

* Men's Role in the Family and Fertility Decision-Making
* Risky Behavior of Teens and Young Adults
* Family Change, New Family Forms and Public Policy

The Consortium is an association of academic units and individual faculty on the University of Maryland campus whose mission is to promote, advance, and conduct research, scholarship, and faculty development that examines the intersections of race, gender, and ethnicity with other dimensions of difference.

Current research includes a comprehensive examination of:

* Health & Social Well Being of Low Income Women, Children & Families
* Motherhood, Fatherhood and Welfare in Rural Mississippi