Research Summary: Taking a Father-Focused View on Work-Life Issues

Introduction The rise of dual-career families has focused discussions on fatherhood towards men’s changing role within families. Less examined are men’s experiences at work – a space that often still defines men’s identities and their fatherhood roles. Certainly, many working mothers continue to shoulder a larger share of family responsibilities than working fathers. However, an … Read more

How Mother-Child and Father-Child Relationships Influence Each Other: A Study on Families with Young Children in China

Zhang, X. & Chen, H. Reciprocal influences between parents’ perceptions of mother-child and father-child relationships: A short-term longitudinal study in Chinese preschoolers. Journal of Genetic Psychology, 2010, 171(1), 22–34. Introduction Research has traditionally explored the effect of parent-child relationships on children’s development or the effect of parents’ marital quality on parent-child relationships. Less explored is the … Read more

Double Review: Freeing Your Child Series

Freeing Your Child from Anxiety [1] and Freeing Your Child from Negative Thinking [2], published in 2004 and 2008 respectively, are two of the three books in Tamar Chansky’s Freeing Your Child series. Tamar Chansky, Ph.D. is the founder and director of the Children’s Center for OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) and Anxiety. An expert in … Read more