Elaine Willerton, senior researcher at MFRI, and Shelley MacDermid Wadsworth, director of MFRI, were among the authors of “Military Fathers’ Perspectives on Involvement,” a paper published in the August issue of the Journal of Family Psychology. The paper was one of seven published in a special section dedicated to how demands of U.S. military operations impact couples, families and children.
"Military Fathers’ Perspectives on Involvement" describes a range of fathers’ involvement with children both while at home and when away, using three overlapping major domains of functioning: cognitive, affective, and behavioral. The paper also considers how types of father involvement differ according to a child age, and offers discussions of factors that help to explain variations in involvement while offering insights about fathering from afar.
Willerton, E., Schwarz, R., MacDermid Wadsworth, S.M., and Oglesby, M.S. (2011).
Military fathers’ perspectives on involvement. Journal of Family Psychology, 25, 251 – 230.