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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.
Reshaping Fatherhood: Finding the Models
Reshaping Fatherhood: Finding the Models
There is a belief that the “culture” of fatherhood (LaRossa, 1988) has changed dramatically insofar as there are heightened expectations for how fathers should act (Lamb, 1986; Pleck, 1984, 1987). However, the “conduct” of fatherhood (LaRossa, 1988), as marked by men's active participation in child-rearing activities, has been relatively slow to change (Lamb, Pleck, & Levine, 1985; Thompson & Walker, 1989), even though recent evidence suggests that men may be doing more than has been previously reported (Pleck, 1993). One of the major reasons given for why fathers have been slow to change is lack of exposure to appropriate paternal role models (Palkovitz, 1984). Traditionally, mothers have acted as a central parental role model for ...
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