Report Issue Brief

Issue Brief: How Involved Are Fathers in Their Children's Schools?

NCES
Author(s):
Christine Winquist Nord (Westat, Inc.)
Publication date:
April 1998
Publication number:
NCES 98120

Summary

This issue brief looks at the extent to which fathers are involved in their kindergarteners' through 12th graders' schools using data from the 1996 National Household Education Survey (NHES:96). The involvement of fathers in two-parent and in father-only families is presented and contrasted with that of mothers in two-parent and in mother-only families.

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Family/Caregiver

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