As interventions for children’s problems resulting from poverty are
more effective and efficient when they are applied in the early
period of childhood, this study purposed to suggest factors that
may enhance low?income fathers’ parenting involvement from an
ecological perspective as an effort to solve problems in poor
children. For this purpose, this study identified factors affecting
fathers’ parenting involvement based on domestic journals,
reclassified them eco?systemically, and analyzed a total of 454
low?income fathers using the 2nd data of the 2009 Korean Survey
of Children and the Youth. According to the results of this study,
first, college graduates or higher showed a higher frequency of
parenting activities than middle school graduates. Second, the
daily length of time for play/conversation with children was
shorter when the average monthly total income was low, when
quarrels with the spouse were frequent, when the father’s decision
?making power on parenting issues was high, and when the
children’s health condition was poor. Third, the frequency of
parenting activities was higher when the average monthly total
income was low, when agreement between the parents in opinions
on parenting issues was high, when the children’s emotional
intelligence was high, when social support from others were high,
and when the protection of four children’s rights was high. Based
on these results, this study suggested the possibility of social
welfare practice interventions for enhancing low?income fathers’
parenting involvement.