ABSTRACT
Just when I think that I am catching up on the literature in a research area on divorce, along comes Paul Amato with another meta-analysis. He has produced a fine chapter that greatly advances our knowledge about the effects of paternal involvement on children's well-being. Amato's conceptualization of different dimensions of paternal participation that might affect children's well-being, his careful effort to delineate theoretical links among these dimensions, and his judicious review of the state of empirical evidence leaves the commentator with relatively little about which to write. I want to suggest a few areas in which our understanding of the evidence is dim and that may require further theoretical elaboration. Then, I will conclude with a couple of remarks about the policy implications of Amato's chapter
