Ross D. Parke, Ph.D., is Distinguished Professor of psychology and the director of the Center for Family Studies at the University of California, Riverside. He is the author of numerous books on fatherhood and child psychology. Scott Coltrane, Ph.D., is a professor of sociology and associate dean for social sciences at UC Riverside, where he serves as the associate director of the Center for Family Studies. Thomas Schofield, Ph.D., is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Davis, who studies family processes and child development in different cultural contexts.