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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.
Fathering Behavior and Child Outcomes: The Role of Race and Poverty
Fathering Behavior and Child Outcomes: The Role of Race and Poverty
Since the 1970s, researchers and policymakers have been looking for the “new father,” one who takes an active role in child rearing and who may become an equal child-rearing partner when both parents are employed full time (Fein, 1978). Although children reared by such fathers continue to be in the minority, most scholars and policymakers view “new fatherhood” as a worthy and attainable goal.
The benefits of fathering for children are frequently taken for granted, in spite of the fact that most studies of parenting combine mothers' and fathers' behavior or ignore fathers' behaviors altogether. Some recent studies focus completely on fathering, but this approach ...
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