Father involvement in childhood is associated with both good father-child relations in adolescence and later marital satisfaction in adult life, even after controlling for mother involvement, mother-child relations and known confounds.
2. Father involvement in childhood was negatively associated with adolescent delinquency in boys, even after controlling for mother involvement and known confounds.
3. Father involvement in childhood protected both against psychological maladjustment in adolescents in non-intact families, and against psychological distress in women in adult life, even after controlling for earlier psychological problems, mother involvement and known confounds.
4. Father involvement in childhood was strongly related with later educational attainment even after controlling for mother involvement and known confounds.
5. Father involvement in childhood was not independently related to use of state benefits receipt and subsidized housing in adult life when controlling for known confounds and mother involvement in childhood. However, father involvement in childhood was negatively related to an adult experience of homelessness in sons of manual