Natasha J. Cabrera

Professor of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology at the University of Maryland, USA

About the author:

I study how mothers and fathers in low-income families rear their children and how their parenting practices and quality of interactions with them matter for their development.

What I want to achieve:

I would like to change the narrative that low-income ethnic minority fathers are not good parents to one that says they are important part of their children’s lives, they matter, and children love their dads. We need to support the entire family, including fathers and other caregivers.