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Shifting marriage and divorce patterns, transformation in the workplace, the growth of the women's movement and the development of the men's movement, all these social and cultural changes have changed fathers' traditional family roles and forced a reexamination of how fathers and children interact. Progress in this new understanding of fathers is highlighted in Fatherhood, a volume of empirical and theoretical research on fathers in families. The research pieces, written by such well-known scholars as Furstenberg, Seltzer, and Greif, examine differences in culture, class, nationality, and custodial status. The chapters focus on legal, economic, and policy questions, as well as on the interaction between fathers and children within the family. Some of the topics explored are fathers' involvement in child care, fathering in the inner city, and single fathers who have custody of their children. Fatherhood is the most current assessment of our research base on fatherhood available for professional, scholarly, and classroom use and is important reading for those interested in men's studies, family studies, gender studies, sociology, psychology, and social work.
Developing a Middle-Range Theory of Father Involvement Postdivorce
Developing a Middle-Range Theory of Father Involvement Postdivorce
A nation with an eye on its future values, nurtures, and cares for its children. At the end of the twentieth century in America, there are an increasing number of children who do not receive this necessary valuing and care from their fathers. Some of these children are born to unmarried mothers and have no father in their lives from the start (Mott, 1990). Others lose the financial and emotional support of their father after divorce. We are not arguing here that father-absent families are inherently deficient. Rather, we suggest that children whose fathers are functionally absent are at greater risk for developing problems. We propose that children's well-being is ...
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