Author: Louis Kriesberg
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 020236741X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 370

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Author: Elizabeth Herzog
Publisher:
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Category : Boys
Languages : en
Pages : 126

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Author: David Blankenhorn
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 006092683X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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A compelling and controversial exploration of absentee fathers and their impact on the nation.

Author: United States. Children's Bureau
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 140

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Author: John Sowers
Publisher: Zondervan
ISBN: 0310328608
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 146

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Drawing from culture, stories, and his own personal experience, John Sowers presents the desperate reality of fatherlessness in his generation. Fatherless Generation is a hard-hitting, descriptive look at this issue, showing how awareness, compassion, and mentoring are the keys to writing new stories of hope.

Author: David Popenoe
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351520563
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 420

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The American family is changing. Divorce, single parents, and stepfamilies are redefi ning the ways we live together and raise our children. Many "experts" feel these seemingly inevitable changes should be celebrated; they claim that the "new" families, which often lack a strong father, are actually healthier than traditional two-parent families—or, at the very least, do children no harm. But as David Popenoe shows in Families Without Fathers this optimistic view is severely misguided. Examining evidence from social and behavioral science, history, and evolutionary biology, Popenoe shows why fathers today are deserting their families in record numbers. The disintegration of the child-centered, two parent family—especially in the inner cities, where as many as two in three children are growing up without their fathers—and the weakening commitment of fathers to their children that more and more follows divorce, are central causes of many of our worst individual and social problems. Juvenile delinquency, drug and alcohol abuse, teenage pregnancy, welfare dependency, and child poverty can be directly traced to fathers' lack of involvement in their children's lives. Our situation will only get worse, Popenoe warns, unless men are willing to renew their commitment to their marriages and to their children. Yet he is not just an alarmist. He suggests concrete policies, and new ways of thinking and acting that will help all fathers improve their marriages and family lives, and tells us what we as individuals and as a society can do to support and strengthen the most important thing a man can do.

Author: Annice Yarber
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313379513
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 310

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A groundbreaking collection of writings on the growing phenomenon of single-parent families in the United States, and how it impacts society as a whole. Focus on Single-Parent Families: Past, Present, and Future brings together in one volume a range of cutting-edge research articles and essays on what has become the most dynamic change in family structure in U.S. history. It is the only resource to make the most insightful and important work being done on the single-parent family phenomena accessible to general readers. Focus on Single-Parent Families helps readers go beyond the stereotypes and look closely at the complexity of families with one parent and consider their place in society. It encompasses the wide variety of households with a single parent—a family structure that promises to continue to grow and diversify. Throughout, the book gauges the impact of the increasing number of single-parent families on the nation as a whole, particularly in regard to policies concerning family welfare, children's services and health care, schools, and other essential social institutions.

Author: Elizabeth Herzog
Publisher:
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Category : Boys
Languages : en
Pages : 132

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Author: Ronald Angel
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299139643
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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Sociologists from the University of Texas document the impact of gender, poverty, and ethnic and racial minority status on the physical and mental health of children and adult women in families without fathers. They explore the demographics, health- care and welfare policies, and the health effects of the culture of poverty not only on children and their mothers, but also on older women. Paper edition (13964-6), $19.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author: Paul L. Adams
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
ISBN:
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 432

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A broad-scale look at children without fathers, examining the causes and varieties of fatherlessness, the consequences of growing up without a father, the social conditions surrounding fatherlessness, and the implications for therapy with such children. Surveys all relevant research, including the effects of fatherlessness on the child's academic adjustment, sex role identification, delinquent behavior, and mental health/mental disorder. Also includes a feminist critique of the role of the father in the child's development.