In 2023, there were about 1.18 million Black families with a single father living in the United States. This is an increase from 1990, when there were 472,000 Black families with a single father in the U.S.

Parent and Children Together (PACT) Responsible Fatherhood (RF) project is an examination of the effects of federally funded responsible fatherhood programs. This project was interested in learning about service implications, the needs and experiences of participants, and the effectiveness of these services. To examine how parenting, relationships, socioeconomic status, and well-being are being affected by responsible fatherhood programs. This dataset is focused on individuals representing a few in the population. The 4 programs that participated in the Responsible Fatherhood study were: Connections to Success in Kansas and Missouri, Fathers' Support Center in Missouri, FATHER Project at Goodwill-Easter Seals Minnesota, and Urban Ventures in Minnesota. This data collection covered topics such as parental involvement, parenting skills, relationship status, child engagement, employment, criminal justice involvement, housing stability, and mental well-being. The demographic variables are race, age, monthly income, and education level.

In 2024, there were around 7.4 million families with a male householder and no spouse present in the United States. You can get an overview on the total number of households in the U.S. here.

These data comprise self-administered survey responses collected from participants enrolled in a responsible fatherhood program during 2021-2025, funded by a Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood (HMRF) grant. Survey participants were largely low-income, unmarried, non-resident fathers. Data contents span the following topics: challenges to fathering, experiences of institutional racism, father-child contact, activities done with child, self-esteem, interpersonal support, relationship satisfacton, and cumulative childhood adversity scores. All data (except childhood adversity data) is in a pre/post-test format. , , # Pre post survey data from a Northeastern U.S. responsible fatherhood program

These data comprise self-administered survey responses collected from participants enrolled in a responsible fatherhood program during 2021-2025, funded by a Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood (HMRF) grant. Survey participants were largely low-income, unmarried, non-resident fathers.

Data were collected at three time points: intake, baseline, and closing using the Qualtrics survey platform. On average, a respondent would complete the baseline survey within one to two weeks after completing the intake survey. Closing surveys were completed by participants six weeks after completing the baseline surveys.

Data contents span the following topics: challenges to fathering, experiences of institutional racism, father-child contact, activities done with child, self-esteem, interpersonal support, relationship satisfacton, and cumulative childhood adversity scores. All data (except childhood adversity data)..., All participants included in this study provided explicit, written consent that their de-identified data may be shared publicly. All indirect and direct identifiers have been removed from this data set.

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In 2023, there were about 3.54 million white, non-Hispanic families with a single father living in the United States. This is an increase from 1990, when there were around 1.95 million white families with a single father in the U.S.

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Structured Abstract: Impact Evaluation of the Healthy Marriage Program in Sarasota, Florida Objective. The goals of the Ignite program are to help struggling fathers and father figures improve parent-child relationship, sustain healthy marriages and relationships, and identify and support fathers in their economic stability and employment objectives throughout the program’s three-county service area (e.g., Sarasota, Manatee, and Charlotte). This evaluation assesses the effectiveness in meeting program goals; it is hypothesized that the program improves family functioning, improves well-being, and increases economic stability. Study Design. The study design is a randomized controlled trial with one site, two conditions (Intervention—offer to participate in the Ignite program— and Wait-List Control), three data time points (baseline, program exit [12-weeks following baseline], and three months post program exit [24-weeks following baseline]). The size of the final analytic sample was 539 participants with 264 randomized to the Intervention group and 275 to the Wait-List Control group. Baseline measures for both groups were completed prior to random assignment. Measures for all three data time points assessed family functioning, adult and child well-being, economic stability and mobility, and employment hope. Specifically, the impact outcomes compared those randomly assigned to the Wait-List Control condition vs. those to the Intervention. Analyses assessed differences between family functioning, adult and child well-being, economic stability, and employment hope. Main Results. The overall pattern of findings suggests that the Intervention group reported significantly higher levels of employment hope three months following the 12-week intervention, No between-groups significant differences were detected for the other primary outcome measures: 1) family functioning, 2) family conflict, and 3) perceived employment barriers. However, the overall pattern of means favored the Intervention group on all four outcome variables including a nonsignificant and small in magnitude trend in family functioning. Analyses examining dosage revealed participants in the Intervention group reported receiving significantly more different types of services than those in the Wait-List Control group at program exit (12-weeks following baseline) and 12 weeks following program exit (24 weeks following baseline). Key Conclusion. The Intervention was successful in enhancing employment hope. A sensitivity analysis supported the robust nature of findings because the same pattern of results was obtained with both the primary and alternate analytic strategies.

In 2022, more than half of the respondents in Poland felt that they took care of their children enough time.

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Abstract The purpose of this article was to discuss the subjective experiences of men during the establishment of the father-infant bond. We conducted a qualitative research, in which we interviewed eight men who recently became fathers, aged between 24 and 36, members of the middle class from the city of Rio de Janeiro. Eight theme categories emerged from the analysis of the interviews: mother is mother; being a “solo father”: conflicting demands; patriarch and caretaker; the pregnant man; ultrasound as a rite of passage; the birth of the father; the construction of a bond; and from individuals to family. In this paper we will discuss the last three categories, which are directly related to the purpose of this article. We verified that fathers are increasingly asserting their desire to participate during pregnancy and in the birth of their children and that the daily exchanges between father and child, since birth, facilitate the establishment of the father-infant bond.

This statistic shows the share of men who are biological fathers in the United States in 2014, by age at the birth of their first child. In that year, ** percent of men who were biological fathers had their first child between the ages of ** and **.

These data are from Samantha Short's first study for her doctoral thesis. This study was published in the journal Midwifery in 2023. It looks at fatherhood, masculinity, social support and depression symptomology with partner and child variables included.

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In the third quarter of 2022, there were 141 thousand of stay-at-home dads in the United Kingdom, up from 105 thousand in the same period in 2019. This is an increase of over 34 percent since before the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdowns. According to the source, despite a social change in parenting, stay-at-home dads remain in the minority with 28 percent of women out of the labor force due to family obligations, compared to just seven percent of men.

Users can download data and reports on information related to families in the United States. Topics covered include, and are not limited to: HIV testing, contraception use, fatherhood and teen pregnancy. BackgroundThe National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) is part of the National Center for Health Statistics at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The survey was originally designed to obtain data on marriage, divorce, contraception, infertility, and the health of women and infants. Since adding men to the previously all female sample has expanded the data to include information on sexually transmitted infections, fathers involvement with children, attitudes toward s marriage, children and sexual activity. User Functionality Reports from the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth are available for users to download. These reports include information on HIV testing, the sexual activity and contraception use of teenagers and family planning and fertility. The complete data files are also available for users to download. The NSFG website also provides an alphabetical list of key statistics and these questions and tables are available for users to download. Data Notes Starting with Cycle 6 in 2002, men have participated. The participants are representative of the household population in the United States between 15 and 44 years of age. Surveys were conducted in 1973, 1976, 1982, 1988, 1995, 2002 and 2010.The first public use data files for Cycle 7 were released in May 2010. A second set of data files will be released in 2011.

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Abstract Becoming a father requires a process of personal development, inner reorientation, and adaptation to a new role. The literature on this process has been sparse, devaluing how challenging and problematic the transition to becoming a father can be. This qualitative, exploratory, descriptive, cross-sectional and retrospective study sought to understand the experiences of men in the transition to fatherhood during the prenatal period. It included a sample of 10 men experiencing, for the first time, a partner’s pregnancy. The data collection technique used was semi-structured interviews. The content analysis technique with semantic categorization and an inductive approach was used to analyze the data. As a result, 3 topics emerged: “experiencing the transition,” “development of the father identity” and “(de)constructing bridges for the transition”. This study deepens the understanding of this developmental transition and challenges the restructuring of prenatal care towards the inclusion of the father figure.

The statistic above provides information about the number of fathers living with children under 18 who do not work outside the home in the United States in 1989 and 2012. In 2012, the number of stay-at-home dads stood at 2 million.