From the editor.

On behalf of the new editorial team and the Advisory Board, I welcome you to the first issue of Volume 5 of Fathering. Many acknowledgements are appropriate. First and foremost, the fatherhood field owes an enormous debt to Jay Fagan for beginning the journal as founding Editor. His willingness to take the risks involved and his dedicated and careful work have successfully established Fathering as an ongoing publication and resource for researchers, practitioners, teachers, and students. We are also indebted to Jim Doyle, Publisher of the Men's Studies Press, for the visionary thinking that led to the creation of the journal. As we begin Volume 5 in the journal's new home at the University of Illinois, we also want to thank the Department of Human and Community Development, and the Family Resiliency Center, for their support.

The journal could not have succeeded as it did without, of course, the authors who submitted their work and the Advisory Board members and others who have worked so hard as reviewers. Among the Advisory Board, special thanks are due to Rob Palkovitz and Glen Palm, who both serve as Book Review Editors and edited a special issue on Work/Family Issues for Fathers. Other Advisory Board members who edited special issues include Randal Day (Fathers in Prison) and Natasha Cabrera (Fathers in Early Head Start).

Volume 5 marks changes in the both Fathering's scope and its editorial process. First, based on the experience of the first four volumes, the journal is narrowing its scope--but only somewhat--to encourage submissions especially in the disciplines of psychology, human development, family studies, sociology, social work, demography, anthropology, and social history. Second, with the increasing number of manuscripts submitted, the journal is shifting to an "action editor" model. New Associate Editors William Marsiglio, Brent McBride, Kevin Roy, and I are dividing up responsibility for supervision of the review process and editorial decision-making for individual submissions.

In closing, this is an exciting time for research and practice with fathers and fathering. We hope that Fathering continues to meet your expectations for scholarship and research. We invite your submissions, and your feedback.

JOSEPH H. PLECK

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign