"Fathering in the Inner City: Paternal Participation and Public Policy" is the title of the upcoming 12th Brigitte M. Bodenheimer Memorial Lecture to be given at the University of California, Davis, law school Wednesday, Feb. 23, by Frank F. Furstenberg Jr., a leading family scholar. Furstenberg is the Zellerbach family professor of sociology and a research associate in the Population Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania. His lecture will address economic, social and cultural reasons why inner-city fathers either disengage or remain involved with their children. He is currently a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. Among the books he has written are "The New American Grandparent" and "Divided Families: What Happens to Children When Parents Part," both co-written with Andrew Cherlin. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will begin at 7 p.m. in the law school's moot court room. The Bodenheimer lecture is an endowed lectureship established in 1981 in memory of Professor Brigitte M. Bodenheimer. The lecture brings scholars and practitioners to the law school to discuss family trends. Bodenheimer is remembered for her work as reporter of the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Act and her service as a U.S. delegate in the drafting of the Hague Convention on civil aspects of international child abduction in October 1980. Bodenheimer taught at the UC Davis law school from 1966 to 1979. She died in 1981. A reception will follow the lecture.