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Improving Children’s Services Engagement of Fathers in Child Protection: Logic Model for an Organisational Development and Staff Training Intervention
There is a long-standing and ongoing problem of practice with at-risk families in child welfare work focusing primarily on mothers and failing to...
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Emerging Alternative Young Black Masculinities in South Africa
This chapter provides an overview of young black masculinities and how they are changing post-1994 with the support of public initiatives by...
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Constructing Gay Fatherhood in Known Donor-Lesbian Reproduction: ‘We get to live that life, we get to be parents’
Known donor-lesbian reproduction is an increasing form of kinship practice. This chapter is based on the findings of a qualitative interview study...
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Black Critical Theory in Action: Analyzing the Specificity of (Anti)Blackness
Given authors’ Michael Dumas and kihana m. ross’ delineation of Black critical theory in the field of education, also referred to as BlackCrit , I...
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Introduction
The introduction to Mistrusted Masculinity sets the stage by introducing the father Omar and how he feels that the Danish welfare system has taken...
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Fatherhood and Love The Social Construction of Masculine Emotions
This book explores how contemporary men understand love in the realm of family life and how they integrate it into their identity. Drawing from Ian...
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Parenting in Pandemic Times: Notes on the Emotional Geography of Youth Sport Culture
Changing conceptions about parenthood has become a topic to come under recent critical examination in academic circles. Thomas Fletcher’s (2020) book...
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Parenthood and Childrearing in Mexico: Patterns and Trends
The present chapter analyzes parenthood and childrearing practices in Mexico. First of all, a brief description of the characteristics of family life...
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“I’d Rather Be with Them Than Doing Anything Else”: Kobe Bryant’s Status as the MVP of Girl’s Dads
Over 40 years ago, Cazenave (
1979 ) provided one of the first scholarly examinations of how middle-income Black fathers defined the provider role.... -
Motherhood Dilemma and Gendered Well-being among Chinese Couples
This research examines how a variety of factors, primarily parenthood and work, are associated with cognitive dimensions of gendered well-being in...
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Language of Parenting: Poland’s Efforts to Promote New Fatherhood Through Outdoor Advertising Campaign
Responding to changes in Poland’s declining fertility rate, a smaller household size, two wage-earning household members, an increased divorce rate,...
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Paternal Psychological Well-being After Union Dissolution: Does Involved Fatherhood Have a Protective Effect?
Although the attention scholars have paid to the question of how the involvement of fathers affects the well-being of their children in...
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Fictional Men: (De)constructing a Military Hero—Military Masculinity, National Identity and Bipolar Disorder in Chimamanda Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus
Despite extensive criticisms of masculinities in Africa, mainly within sociology, critical men’s studies, masculinity studies, feminism and...
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Consequences of Teen Parenthood for Teen Mothers and Fathers in Canada
Teen motherhood is associated with a variety of adverse consequences in prior literature, even after controlling for selection into teen motherhood....
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Being a Good Father
This chapter situates my analysis by providing an overview of changes in the construction of American fatherhood as described by sociologists over...
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Introduction
This chapter identifies the aims of this book and the contributions it makes to sociological understanding of the family. This study throws light on...
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Single Fathers with Daughters in American Film
This chapter examines how U.S. films of the 2010s reflect evolving notions of fatherhood in a rapidly changing society, as represented by feature...
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Critically Assessing the Methodological Challenges of Exploring Chinese Immigrant Fathers
Immigrant Chinese fathers remain severely under-researched despite their sizable and growing presence in host countries around the world and the...
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Trends in the Motherhood Wage Penalty and Fatherhood Wage Premium for Low, Middle, and High Earners
Many studies have shown that women pay a wage penalty for motherhood, whereas men earn a wage premium for fatherhood. A few recent studies have used...
