Abstract
Father’s involvement in early childhood participants can be influenced by family structures. Presently, the number of nuclear families is decreasing in China with the increase of families where fathers are absent or grandparents participate in parenting. Therefore, fathers in China are now facing the lack of motivations, skills, time, situations and method to participate in kids’ early childhood education. To break them through, a father needs support from the society, the kindergarten and the family to assist him to try participating actively into parenting.
Highlights
In recent years, the issue of fathers’ involvement in early childhood education has gradually come into the view of scholars and parents
In terms of personal factors, the researchers found that the motivation of fathers, especially the sense of self-efficacy, could positively predict their investment in early childhood education
In the study of family relations, it was found that the father’s satisfaction with marriage and the relationship between husband and wife affects his participation in the parenting of children, and the wife's support or encouragement can promote the husband's participation in parenting (Chen & Wu, 2014)
Summary
The issue of fathers’ involvement in early childhood education has gradually come into the view of scholars and parents. Scholars have actively explored various factors influencing father’s involvement in parenting, which found that father's personal factors, family relationships and social or cultural background can all be influential. Nuclear family is still the major form of family structure in China, but structures have been becoming increasingly diverse, which includes the participation of grandparents in children’s education which was a result of migrant working or divorce. In these families, father’s absence is very common. This paper attempts to sort out the difficulties and solutions faced by fathers in the early childhood education in the nuclear family, the family where grandparents participated in parenting and the family where fathers were absent, so as to provide references for further research
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