DADS: The “Developing a Daddy Survey” and the Collaborative Work of the DADS Working Group

Prepared by:
Jacinta Bronte-Tinkew, Kristin A. Moore, and Tamara Halle

January 2002

This report is available on the Internet at:
http://fatherhood.hhs.gov/DADS/infant/index.htm

Contents

• Introduction
• Background
• The Issues
• Purpose
• The Measurement of Father Involvement in the DADS Project
• Description of studies in the DADS Project.
  • DADS: Being a Father
  • DADS: Becoming a Father
• DADS: Its unique strengths and how it offers new possibilities for fatherhood research
  • Conducting comparable and complementary analyses of father involvement
  • Subgroup analyses of resident, non-resident and social fathers
• Current Activities of the DADS Working Group
• Next Steps
• Notes for Users of the DADS Binders
  • The DADS Binders
  • How the DADS binders can benefit researchers
  • Contents of the DADS binders
  • How researchers can obtain information on a specific dimension of father involvement
  • Obtaining further information on the full survey instruments used in the DADS studies
  • Data Availability
• Conclusion

• Appendix 1:  Matrix of Measures/Constructs Used in the EHS, ECLS-B and Fragile Families Studies

• References
• Endnotes

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