The Well-Being of Divorced Fathers: A Review and Suggestions for Future Research

Since 1962, the divorce rate in the United States has continued to escalate and its negative effects are experienced by parents and children alike. This review reports the number and topics of peer-reviewed publications in the psychology literature since 1900 that focused on divorced fathers' well-being. Results indicate that divorced fathers' well-being is overwhelmingly neglected in the published literature, and that very few values of applied and participatory research were included within the studies reviewed. Evidence suggests that continued and increased primary research attention to divorced fathers' well-being is not only plausible, but also relevant and necessary.