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- Title
How Father-Friendly Are K-12 Schools? Findings From a Community Survey.
- Authors
Miller, Kyle; Arellanes, Jordan A.; Beasley, Toy; Kybartas, Megan
- Abstract
Fathers make important contributions to children's learning and development; however, schools and community organizations consistently report challenges to engaging fathers in their work. As part of a larger community-based participatory research project, a local fatherhood coalition created and distributed a survey to learn how various organizations and programs supported or marginalized fathers in their work. A mixed methods analysis of survey data indicated that K-12 schools were significantly less father-friendly than social service organizations, with K-12 schools disclosing that little to no services targeted fathers and most family engagement efforts prioritized mothers or assumed father disinterest. Comparatively, some social service organizations reported father-specific programming or early efforts to change policies and practices that unjustly favored mothers. However, most organizations, including K-12 schools, needed greater guidance and resources to become more father-friendly. In this article, we describe how the fatherhood coalition utilized survey results to guide their efforts in supporting local fathers and transforming organizational practices to make family-related programming and activities more inclusive of fathers and other male caregivers.
- Subjects
FATHERHOOD; SOCIAL services; SOCIAL structure; COMMUNITY-based participatory research; COMMUNITY organization
- Publication
School Community Journal, 2024, Vol 34, Issue 1, p85
- ISSN
1059-308X
- Publication type
Article