Fatherhood and Fertility
In: Fathering: a journal of theory, research, and practice about men as fathers, Band 9, Heft 1, S. 103-120
ISSN: 1933-026X
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In: Fathering: a journal of theory, research, and practice about men as fathers, Band 9, Heft 1, S. 103-120
ISSN: 1933-026X
In: Family relations, Band 38, Heft 4, S. 466
ISSN: 1741-3729
In: Marriage & family review, Band 9, Heft 3-4, S. 229-253
ISSN: 1540-9635
In: American behavioral scientist: ABS, Band 29, S. 5-128
ISSN: 0002-7642
In: Choice in welfare series no. 12
In: Family relations, Band 35, Heft 4, S. 611
ISSN: 1741-3729
In: Contemporary Islam: dynamics of Muslim life, Band 15, Heft 2, S. 233-247
ISSN: 1872-0226
In: Family relations, Band 47, Heft 2, S. 205
ISSN: 1741-3729
As the first country in the world to do so, Sweden introduced paid parental leave for fathers in 197 4. This was a unique challenge to the traditional division of duties between men and women. Since then, a great many political reforms have been carried out to strengthen the participation of fathers in children's lives (Klinth 2008) and to create a gender-equal, dual-earner/dual-carer family in which both parents can combine work and parenthood (Berggren 2005; Forsberg 2009). Becoming a parent in Sweden today, one indifferent ways is met by these political aims. At the same time, socialization into parenthood also is pursued, for example, by the private consumer marker. Direct marketing to new parents begins at an early stage, advising them what to buy and how best to take care of their infant. Such advice can be seen as complementing or competing with the policies promoted by stare officials. This essay discusses the potential clash of values between the Swedish state and visual consumption in the medium of direct marketing.
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In: The future of children: a publication of The Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, Band 20, Heft 2, S. 205-230
ISSN: 1550-1558
To improve the quality and stability of couple and father-child relationships in fragile families, researchers are beginning to consider how to tailor existing couple-relationship and father-involvement interventions, which are now targeted on married couples, to the specific needs of unwed couples in fragile families. The goal, explain Philip Cowan, Carolyn Pape Cowan, and Virginia Knox, is to provide a more supportive developmental context for mothers, fathers, and, especially, the children in fragile families. The authors present a conceptual model to explain why couple-relationship and father-involvement interventions developed for middle- and low-income married couples might be expected to provide benefits for children of unmarried parents. Then they summarize the extensive research on existing couple-relationship and father-involvement interventions, noting that only a few of the programs for couples and a handful of fatherhood programs have been systematically evaluated. Of those that have been evaluated, few have included unmarried couples as participants, and none has investigated whether interventions may have different effects when unmarried fathers live with or apart from the child. Furthermore, although the funders and creators of most programs for couples or for fathers justify their offerings in terms of potential benefits for children, the authors note that the programs rarely assess child outcomes systematically. Next, the authors consider whether interventions for working-class or middle-class fathers or couples that have shown benefits for family members and their relationships might be helpful to fragile families, in which the parents are not married at the time of their child's birth. Because evidence suggests that couple-oriented programs also have a positive effect on father involvement, the authors recommend integrating couple and fatherhood interventions to increase their power to reduce the risks and enhance the protective factors for children's development and well-being. The authors emphasize the need for more research on program development to understand the most effective ways to strengthen co-parenting by couples who are the biological parents of a child but who have relatively tenuous, or already dissolved, relationships with one another. In closing, the authors summarize how far the family-strengthening field has come and offer suggestions for where it might go from here to be helpful to fragile families.
In: Fathering: a journal of theory, research, and practice about men as fathers, Band 1, Heft 1, S. 3-26
ISSN: 1933-026X
In: Qualitative social work: research and practice, Band 14, Heft 2, S. 242-258
ISSN: 1741-3117
This paper analyses how men who were delinquent as adolescents experience themselves as fathers. The men who took part in a longitudinal study, all in their 40s, had severe adjustment problems as teenagers, and thus have a past that causes uncertainty about their parenting abilities in the present. The paper analyses the men's affective investments in their ways of being fathers. Four analytical categories that address the men's fathering experiences were identified as significant in the interviews. First unsettling relations and distance from their own children, which for many of the men appeared as a recurring pattern that resembled the relationships they had with their own parents. Second, several men emphasised capacities such as personal traits or strength that made them able to make a break with the past. Third, the importance of support from others was also recognised, particularly being able to share parenthood with the children's mother and for some, receiving help from child welfare services. Fourth, a key finding is that all the men, independent of whether they live with their children or not, experience a fragile point of balance, that is, incidents such as a relapse into drug abuse or a break in their relationship with the other parent strongly affect their relationships with their children. The difficulties these men experienced as youth intersect with their experiences of their own capacities as fathers in the present.
In: Ebony, Band 61, Heft 8, S. 78-83
ISSN: 0012-9011