Nurturing dads : social initiatives for contemporary fatherhood / William Marsiglio and Kevin Roy.
2012
HQ756 .M3447 2012 (Mapit)
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Title
Nurturing dads : social initiatives for contemporary fatherhood / William Marsiglio and Kevin Roy.
Author
Marsiglio, William.
ISBN
9780871545664 pbk. alk. paper
0871545667 pbk. alk. paper
0871545667 pbk. alk. paper
Publication Details
New York : Russell Sage Foundation, c2012.
Language
English
Description
xix, 290 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Call Number
HQ756 .M3447 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification
306.874/2
Summary
American fathers are a highly diverse group, but the breadwinning, live-in, biological dad prevails as the fatherhood ideal. Consequently, policymakers continue to emphasize marriage and residency over initiatives that might help foster healthy father-child relationships and creative co-parenting regardless of marital or residential status. In Nurturing Dads, William Marsiglio and Kevin Roy explore the ways new initiatives can address the social, cultural, and economic challenges men face in contemporary families and foster more meaningful engagement between many different kinds of fathers and their children. What makes a good father? The firsthand accounts in Nurturing Dads show that the answer to this question varies widely and in ways that counter the mainstream--provide and reside--model of fatherhood. Marsiglio and Roy document the personal experiences of more than 300 men from a wide range of socioeconomic backgrounds and diverse settings, including fathers-to-be, young adult fathers, middle-class dads, stepfathers, men with multiple children in separate families, and fathers in correctional facilities. They find that most dads express the desire to have strong, close relationships with their children and to develop the nurturing skills to maintain these bonds. But they also find that disadvantaged fathers, including young dads and those in constrained financial and personal circumstances, confront myriad structural obstacles, such as poverty, inadequate education, and poor job opportunities... -- Inside Book Flap.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Roy, Kevin, 1966-
Added Corporate Author
American Sociological Association.
Series
Rose series in sociology.
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Table of Contents
The landscape
Constructing meanings
Building and sustaining bonds
Negotiating trust as partners and parents
Kin work and networks of care
Community connections
Transitions and human capital
Promoting nurturance.
Constructing meanings
Building and sustaining bonds
Negotiating trust as partners and parents
Kin work and networks of care
Community connections
Transitions and human capital
Promoting nurturance.