Research-To-Practice Brief
Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic for Supporting Fathers’ Relationships in Fatherhood Programs
Fathers have encountered challenges that may affect their romantic and coparenting relationships during the COVID-19 pandemic. These include increased unemployment, issues around child access and visitation, and difficulties navigating work-from-home arrangements. COVID-19 also created unique hurdles for fatherhood programs in providing services to fathers, and many of these programs were required to swiftly shift from in-person to virtual service delivery. This brief describes how COVID-19 affected fathers’ relationships and healthy relationship programming provided by fatherhood programs and offers strategies that these programs can adopt to better support fathers’ coparenting and romantic relationships.
Source
Partner Resources
Topics/Subtopics
Family Strengthening
Fatherhood
Special Populations
Publication Date
2022-02-18
Section/Feed Type
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