Transition to Fatherhood Project Website

About the project Project Description Affiliated Researchers Advisory Committee Working Papers and Publications Research Briefs Presentations Researcher Login This project is supported by a grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; Grant #P01HD045610	Project Modules Project I: The Timing and Circumstances of the Transition to Fatherhood Project II: Transitions into the Labor Force, Marriage And Biological Fatherhood Project III: Family Processes, Intergenerational Learning, and Involved Fathering Project IV: Subsequent Fatherhood: Timing and Circumstances Project Cores	Policy makers and others are concerned that many young men today are only loosely attached to their children and their children’s mothers. This concern has been fueled by rising rates of non-marital childbearing, delays in the age of marriage, increases in the share of children being raised in female-headed families, and the failure of some biological fathers to provide economic support to their children. The program project grant (PO1) on the Transition to Fatherhood consists of a multi-disciplinary team of research collaborators who meet on a regular basis to plan and conduct coordinated analyses on topics relating to the transition to fatherhood using multiple data sets. Read more >