The aim of this article is to offer a novel theoretical perspective on family practitioners' engagement with fathers, through the lens of theories of social care and capabilities. The paper shows how research on low engagement of fathers in family- and child-related social interventions has advanced along three main axes: (a) giving voice to fathers, (b) analyzing workers' perceptions, and (c) what works analysis of father-oriented programs. I point to several problems in existing research: the absence of a unifying theoretical framework and the lack of sufficient attention to issues of relationality and agency. Theories of care and the capabilities approach are offered as a framework. Applying these theoretical frameworks to existing research on father engagement raises new questions and directions for further studies, mainly in two directions: first, relationality and the configurations of relations and power within families and within welfare systems, and second, the effect of agency on father engagement.

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与父亲的家庭实践、社会关怀和能力

本文的目的是通过社会关怀和能力理论的视角，为家庭从业者与父亲的互动提供一种新颖的理论视角。本文展示了关于父亲在家庭和儿童相关社会干预中参与度低的研究是如何沿着三个主轴取得进展的：(a) 为父亲提供发言权，(b) 分析工人的看法，以及 (c) 有效的分析以父亲为导向的计划。我指出现有研究中的几个问题：缺乏统一的理论框架以及对关系性和代理问题缺乏足够的关注。护理理论和能力方法作为框架提供。将这些理论框架应用到现有的父亲参与研究中，提出了进一步研究的新问题和方向，主要有两个方向：第一，家庭内部和福利体系内的关系以及关系和权力的配置；第二，代理对父亲的影响订婚。