NCFR Report Magazine
NCFR Report, NCFR's quarterly member magazine, is filled with research-based information about key family topics.
Report is also an opportunity for submission of articles — research- or practice-based — to the Family Focus section, and can be a useful resource for faculty and family educators.
Editor: Ted G. Futris, Ph.D., CFLE
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- For sample Family Focus articles, see the Sleep issue.
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The views expressed in NCFR Report may not represent the views of the entire NCFR organization.
Call for Authors
Spring 2024 Issue: Today's Fathers
Proposal Deadline: May 15, 2023; Final articles due July 15, 2023
The state of scholarship on fatherhood was last addressed in the 2009 spring Family Focus issue. Prominent NCFR members and scholars in the family field highlighted the stereotypic history and mythologizing of fathers, the institutional and cultural barriers to involved fatherhood, and efforts to expand the vision of fathering as well as fatherhood scholarship. NCFR members can read these articles here: ncfr.org/past-family-focus (login required).
Over 14 years later, how far have we come? The purpose of the spring 2024 Family Focus is to share what advances have been made, and what gaps still exist, in research, practice, and policies related to fathers. What is the state of research and theorizing on today’s fathers? How have policies encouraged and/or hindered the role of fathers in children’s lives? What evidence-based intervention and outreach strategies have been found to support fathers? Note, the pluralization of “fathers” is intended to call attention to the diversification of the modern father that is no longer limited to just the “traditional, married, father.” Authors are encouraged to critically assess how fathers vary in age, ability, gender expression, sexual orientation, ethnicity, race, national origin, or immigration status.
Prospective authors should submit their proposal online at www.ncfr.org/form/family-focus-author-proposal by May 15, 2023. All authors will be notified by May 22, 2023 of proposal acceptance. Complete articles are due July 15, 2023. Contact the editor at [email protected] with questions.
Author Guidelines
Please review our revised Author Guidelines
Family Focus Author Guidelines (PDF)
A Member Forum
NCFR Report is a quarterly magazine for members designed to encourage memberto-member dialogue, to inform colleagues about our research, and to discuss research
application for practitioners and policy professionals. Through Report, NCFR also builds our community by reporting on people, events, and organizational news.
Unlike the content of our scholarly journals, the articles in NCFR Report have not been
peer-reviewed. In the spirit of open debate and academic freedom, NCFR Report is a
member forum for exchanging ideas. The opinions or findings expressed are those
of the author(s), which may or may not represent the official position of NCFR as
an organization nor the prevailing scientific consensus on the topic.
