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FIRA Documents Generativity in Young Fathers
Tuesday Nov 10, 2009
Part of FIRA's five-year Community University Research Alliance project included analysis of questions that were embedded in the questionnaires of each of the research clusters who were looking at seven different sub-populations of fathers. These questions elicited respondents' views on cross-cutting fatherhood issues such as how men learned about fathering, how they negotiate parenting with their partners, and how having children changed their outlook on life.Mike Pratt, professor of psychology at Wilfrid Laurier University, worked with post doctoral student Heather Lawford (WLU) and also Annie Devault (Université du Québec en Outaouais) and Anna Dienhart (University of Guelph), on an analysis which provides some of the first clear data showing signs of generativity in young fathers. To read the full article click here.
