• Direct assessment of father parenting (rather than through maternal reports).
  
• The effects of father presence (in contrast to father absence).
  
• The full diversity of father involvement.
  
• Father’s impact on gender role differentiation.
  
• Father’s role in triadic interactions of family dynamics.
  
• Father involvement in psychotherapeutic family interventions.

This handbook draws from converging perspectives about the role of fathers in very early child development, summarizes what is known, and, within each chapter, draws attention to the critical questions that need to be answered in coming decades.

The Handbook of Fathers and Child Development is a must-have resource for researchers, graduate students, and clinicians, therapists, and other professionals in infancy and early child development, social work, public health, developmental and clinical child psychology, pediatrics, family studies, neuroscience, juvenile justice, child and adolescent psychiatry, school and educational psychology, anthropology, sociology, and all interrelated disciplines.