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
* Parental Interactions with Latino Infants: Variation by Country of Origin and English Proficiency
* Mothers and Fathers contribution to preschoolers' social and emotional development
* Low-Income Nonresident Father Involvement with their Toddlers: Variation by Father Ethnicity, Resources, and Mother-Father Relationship
* Explaining the long reach of fathers’ prenatal involvement on later paternal engagement with children.

Maryland's Family Studies Department (Health and Human Performance) 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
* Transitory Paternal Involvement and Social Capital Linkages in Low-Income African American 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.

Research includes:

* Time Use and Parenting
* Men's Role in the Family
* Risky Behavior of Teens and Young Adults
* Family Change and Subgroup Variation

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