@article{ref1,
title="Promoting Responsible Fatherhood Programming: Factors Affecting Low-Income Fathers' Involvement in Child Protection Services and Court-Restricted Access to Their Children",
journal="Journal of poverty",
year="2011",
author="Gordon, Derrick M. and Iwamoto, Derek and Watkins, Natasha D. and Kershaw, Trace and Mason, Diana and Judkins, Anthony",
volume="15",
number="2",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="This study investigates how unemployment, traumatic sexual experiences, substance use, intimate partner violence, and parental involvement collectively contribute to involvement with child protective system (CPS) and court-restricted access to children among low-income, ethnically diverse fathers. Participants were 164 fathers involved in a statewide fatherhood program. The majority of the fathers in the program were unemployed (76%) and ethnic minorities (66%). Logistic regression revealed that traumatic sexual experiences and number of children were significant predictors of CPS involvement, whereas employment and traumatic sexual experience were associated with court-restricted access to their children. The results elucidate that clinicians and father-hood programs may need to attend to the history of traumatic experiences, as well as other contextual factors, of fathers and identify how, through trauma-focused interventions, to positively affect them and their children.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1087-5549",
doi="10.1080/10875549.2011.563173",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10875549.2011.563173"
}