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Fertility reproduction and sexuality volume Volume 27
Publisher
Berghahn
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Series
Publisher
Russell Sage Foundation
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
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Description
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,...
Series
Themes in biblical narrative volume 18
Publisher
Koninklijke Brill
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
A collection of personal essays from men who wrestle with what it means to be a father in academia today. Organized in three sections, the stories of the contributors depict not merely a balancing act of parenting, teaching, and writing, but also the revelatory collision and occasional fusion of competing identities. Essays in the first section, "Fathers in Theory, Fathers in Praxis," focus on challenges related to merging work and parenting. The...
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Understanding families volume 11
Publisher
Sage Publications
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
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Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
"We've all heard that a father's involvement enriches the lives of children. But how much have we heard about how having a child affects a father's life? As Peter Gray and Kermyt Anderson reveal, fatherhood actually alters a man's sexuality, rewires his brain, and changes his hormonal profile. His very health may suffer - in the short run - and improve in the long. These are just a few aspects of the scientific side of fatherhood explored in this...
Publisher
United Nations
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
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Description
The perceptions of the role of women and men in families have changed over the past few decades. Men are no longer perceived as the economic providers to families. The role of men in the family has undergone many "diverse demographic, socio-economic and cultural transformations" impacting the formation, stability and overall well-being of families. In light of this development, DESA's Division for Social Policy and Development (DSPD) launched this...