This book is the first of its kind to focus specifically on children's attachment to fathers, and explores the connections among fathering, family dynamics, and attachment relationships.

1. Fathers in attachment research: A Review 2. Fathers' role as attachment figures: An interview with Sir Richard Bowlby 3. The Risky Situation: A procedure for assessing the father-child activation relationship 4. Fathers' frightening and sensitive infant caregiving: Relations with fathers' attachment representations, father-infant attachment, and children's later development of emotion regulation and attention problem 5. Q Methodology to assess father-child attachment 6. Intersubjectivity during free infant-father "protoconversation" and within "protoconversation" pauses 7. Positive aspects of fathering and mothering, and children's attachment in kindergarten 8. Observed and reported supportive coparenting as predictors of infant-mother and infant-father attachment security 9. Narrative structure and emotional references in parent-child reminiscing: Associations with child gender, temperament, and the quality of parent-child interactions 10. Paternal attachment, parenting beliefs, and children's attachment 11. Fathering and attachment in the U.S. and Taiwan: Contextual predictors and child outcomes 12. Gender and cultural patterns of mothers' and fathers' attachment and links with children's self competence, depression and loneliness in middle and late childhood 13. Perceptions of maternal and paternal attachment security in middle childhood: Links with positive parental affection and psychosocial adjustment 14. Mapping young adults' use of fathers for attachment support: Implications on romantic relationship experiences 15. Nurturing Fathers: A Qualitative Examination of Child-Father Attachment