Kari Adamsons is an associate professor of human development and family studies at University of Connecticut.
Subsequently, she enrolled at the human development and family studies program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, obtaining first a master's degree in 2002 followed by a doctoral degree in 2006.
After one year as a postdoctoral fellow she became a faculty member at the University of Connecticut in 2007.
[1] Adamsons is most known for her work on fathers and father-child relationships, especially during transition to fatherhood and during and after divorce or separation.
She has shown that quality time with their non-custodial fathers is very important for the well-being of children whose parents have divorced.