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Male Involvement  

An important yet often overlooked strategy in the effort to increase parent involvement in early childhood programs is involving fathers or other significant male role figures.

When built upon the strengths that many men can bring to the parenting situation--strengths that can be utilized in the development of effective home-school partnerships it is highly beneficial to the child.

 When men become actively involved, they can have positive impacts on many aspects of children's development.

Given the support for increased involvement of parents in their children's schooling and the positive contributions men can make to their children's development, it is important to reach out specifically to fathers or other significant males in parent involvement efforts for pre-kindergarten and early childhood programs.

(see Lamb, in press, for a comprehensive review).