Virtual family life education: A qualitative study of father education on the World Wide Web

As the World Wide Web continues to expand more families will be using this medium for information on parenting This study qualitatively analyzed six w eb sites that did family life education (FLE) with fathers. These sites use d instrumental/technical, interpretive, and critical-emancipatory approache s to education. General differences in practice between the sites were iden tified in relation to the site's producer(s). All sites were also compared in terms of how they used best practices with fathers, were developed, and their numbers of users. Suggestions for Web-based FLE approaches, ethics, a nd practice are given as well as future research topics.