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Part II presents the early phases of fatherhood and emphasize updated research on men during their transition to becoming fathers. Despite current knowledge that fathers contribute importantly to their children’s emotional, social, and cognitive development during pregnancy and infancy, emphasis has often been placed exclusively on the mothers’ in research as well as in clinical practice. Fathers of today participate more actively in caregiving on early phases in their infants’ lives than former generations of fathers did, and their influence is important for children’s development. This underscores the importance of investigating paternal characteristics at an early point of time.
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Skjøthaug, T. (2020). Overview to Part II: Prenatal and Perinatal Influences. In: Fitzgerald, H.E., von Klitzing, K., Cabrera, N.J., Scarano de Mendonça, J., Skjøthaug, T. (eds) Handbook of Fathers and Child Development. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51027-5_9
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