Father Figure

Author : Jordan Shapiro
Publisher : Little, Brown Spark
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780316459952

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A thoughtful and "utterly mind-blowing" exploration of fatherhood and masculinity in the 21st century (New York Times). There are hundreds of books on parenting, and with good reason—becoming a parent is scary, difficult, and life-changing. But when it comes to books about parenting identity, rather than the nuts and bolts of raising children, nearly all are about what it's like to be a mother. Drawing on research in sociology, economics, philosophy, gender studies, and the author's own experiences, Father Figure sets out to fill that gap. It's an exploration of the psychology of fatherhood from an archetypal perspective as well as a cultural history that challenges familiar assumptions about the origins of so-called traditional parenting roles. What paradoxes and contradictions are inherent in our common understanding of dads? Might it be time to rethink some aspects of fatherhood? Gender norms are changing, and old economic models are facing disruption. As a result, parenthood and family life are undergoing an existential transformation. And yet, the narratives and images of dads available to us are wholly inadequate for this transition. Victorian and Industrial Age tropes about fathers not only dominate the media, but also contour most people's lived experience. Father Figure offers a badly needed update to our collective understanding of fatherhood—and masculinity in general. It teaches dads how to embrace the joys of fathering while guiding them toward an image of manliness for the modern world.

Author : Kevin J. Sweeney
Publisher : Harper Paperbacks
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2004-05-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0060597232

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Father Figures by Kevin J. Sweeney Pdf

Recounts how the author, who lost his father at the age of three, selected three men from his working-class community near San Francisco to observe as role models on how to be a parent and a man, sharing the lessons he has learned on the needs of children, the gift of community, and the nature of fatherhood. Reprint.

Author : James Cudney
Publisher : Next Chapter
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : PKEY:6610000324224

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Between the fast-paced New York City, a rural Mississippi town and a charming Pennsylvania college campus filled with secrets, two young girls learn the consequences of growing up too quickly. Abused by her mother, Amalia Graeme longs to escape her desolate hometown and fall in love. Contemplating her loss of innocence and conflicting feelings between her boyfriend and the dangerous attraction for an older man, Amalia faces life-altering tragedies. Brianna Porter, a sassy, ​​angst-ridden New York City teenager, yearns to find her life's true purpose, conquer her fear of abandonment, and interpret an intimidating desire for her best friend, Shanelle. Desperate to find the father whom her mother refuses to reveal, Brianna accidentally finds out a shocking truth about her missing parent. Set in alternating chapters two decades apart, the parallels between their lives and the unavoidable collision that is bound to happen is revealed. Father Figure is an emotional story filled with mystery, romance, and suspense.

Author : Ann Widdecombe
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781409139157

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Ann Widdecombe's controversial novel about the position of men in today's society. Jason Kirk is a 32-year-old teacher who believes he is happily married until he returns home one day to find that his wife has left him, taking their two young children with her. Suddenly Jason finds the role of father denied to him as he is separated from his children and reduced to the role of visitor. The law is weighted against him and his wife produces a series of excuses to withhold contact with Jake, eight, and Leah, three. Jason, who had wanted to bring his children up to maturity on a daily basis, not only has to face the pain of this loss but endures the misery of persecution by the Child Support Agency. He discovers he is not alone and that among his friends and colleagues, there are others enduring the same situation. FATHER FIGURE is an enthralling, thought-provoking novel of modern fatherhood.

Author : Richard Peck
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781101664346

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Father Figure by Richard Peck Pdf

After his mother dies, 17-year-old Jim realizes he must raise his younger brother, Byron, alone. But when their father shows up with plans to take them to Florida, Jim wonders if the reunion will last. An ALA Best Book for Young Adults.

Author : Beverley Nichols
Publisher : Butterworth-Heinemann
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Authors
ISBN : 0434512036

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Father Figure by Beverley Nichols Pdf

On the author's father, John Nichols.

Author : Octavius Brown LPC & LCADC
Publisher : Balboa Press
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-08
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9798765225172

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The Father Figure "Male or Female" Commitment by Octavius Brown LPC & LCADC Pdf

I felt Called by the spirit of the LORD to author this Book. I realize that by the grace of God for seven decades, I am blessed to share my thoughts about the Glory of Unconditional Love, Forgiveness, and the importance of having as a healthy Father Figure Role Model Commitment within and outside of the Home. Message to the Readers: This book is ideal for couples that are planning to start a meaningful relationship or a future marriage. Similarly, will significantly help anyone that had previously experienced a divorce and is now planning their second or third marriage. Because it examines the correlation between Divorces and an unhealthy Father Figure’s Commitment Role Model. That based on average second marriages results in a 60 percent marriage Divorce Rate. The Divorce Rates percentages are even higher for third and greater marriages. Therefore, this is what compelled me to authoring this book. Clinically, I believe that on average people that are going or had gone through a divorce need to pause and read this book. As an approach to start the process of addressing needed behavioral changes. Since coping with separation from someone you once genuinely loved is a very unhappy life experience. Both parties need to recognize that a failed or failing first marriage is strong indication that something is wrong and needs to be clinically processed and resolved. My hypothesis is based on my over fifty years of life experiences, numerous episodes of unregulated and unprocessed emotions, as well as an inconsistent presentation of the Father Figure’s Commitment essence. That was cultivated by years of embedded and unprocessed unhealthy emotions. Due to an exhibited argumentative presentation that lacked the heart of Unconditional Love and Forgiveness. In general, regarding the connection between Divorce Rate and the Father Figure Commitment, I think, that by increasing awareness about the value of two-way healthy communication, where all parties’ thoughts, feelings, and concerns are relevant. In addition, improve people passion for healthier communication within a family, will result in strengthen their readiness to implement skills to better manage unregulated emotions, resolve concerns and reduce the Divorce Rate number for second and higher marriages. Furthermore, during the initial stages of any relationships and prior to Marriage, there should be discussions about the fundamental principles unconditional love and forgiveness. That is achieved by the implementation of effective Counseling techniques from the Nineteen Chapters in this book.

Author : Laura Peyton Roberts,Jeffrey Jacob Abrams
Publisher : Bantam Books for Young Readers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 055349404X

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Father Figure by Laura Peyton Roberts,Jeffrey Jacob Abrams Pdf

Sydney, teenage spy, wonders if her boss at SD-6 is a double agent.

Author : Jane Harvey-Berrick,Alana Albertson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1941665462

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Father Figure by Jane Harvey-Berrick,Alana Albertson Pdf

Author : Zun Lee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-19
Category : African American fathers
ISBN : 1941781004

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Father Figure by Zun Lee Pdf

Widely hailed as a landmark project, Zun Lee's monograph is at once documentary photography and personal visual storytelling. Through intimate black-and-white frames, 'Father Figure: Exploring Alternate Notions of Black Fatherhood' provides insight into often-overlooked aspects of African-descended family life.The reader gains an intimate view into the daily lives of black men whom Lee has worked with since 2011 and who are parenting under a variety of circumstances - as married fathers, single fathers, social fathers, young and older, middle class and poorer. Lee brings into focus what pervasive father absence stereotypes have distorted - real fathers who are involved in their children's lives. Men who may not be perfect but are not media caricatures. Zun Lee's journey of fatherlessness and identity formation informs his insider perspective and photographic approach. Using his own biography as inspiration, Lee is able to access a complex subject matter with profound vulnerability and compassion, creating a richly woven narrative that is deceptively simple yet multi-dimensional and above all, deeply humanistic. Flanked by writer and photographer Teju Cole's empathetic foreword and by an impassioned afterword courtesy of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Trymaine Lee, this work exposes the viewer to aspects of black male identity that many have not seen, or perhaps do not want to see. It shows these men not as victims of their circumstances but as empowered agents in their own lives, as capable parents, and above all as loving, wholesome human beings.

Author : Kendall Smith
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-01
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781641705936

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Rookie Father by Kendall Smith Pdf

If you grew up without a father figure, you may be concerned whether you have what it takes to be a great dad. Author Kendall Smith, son of a single mother, takes you under his wing, sharing the wisdom he has gathered from his own experience as a father, from observing other dads, and from interviewing various generations of men. This playbook for fathers who, like Smith, did not have a regular and dependable father figure is packed with short lessons to answer questions new dads will face, from choosing your parenting style to what it means to really be the “man of the house” (spoiler alert: it’s not the 1950s) to managing your expectations as your child grows into a unique person. With hilarious examples and a straightforward approach, Rookie Father is the mentor-in-a-book every new father needs to be the dad you want to be.

Author : Leandra Logan
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781459260788

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How To Be A Father…? Manhattan millionaire Charles Fraser knew everything about closing a deal; he knew nothing about being a father figure to a five-year-old boy in suburbia. It was supposed to be simple: answer the ad for a male influence, stay two weeks and walk away—no questions asked, no one the wiser. But one look at the dimpled boy and his bonafide angel of a mother and all that changed. Rose wowed him with a fresh lemonade and porch swings, and after one day Charles dreamed of Little League with Lucas and long summer nights with Rose. He still knew nothing about being a father—though suddenly he was willing to learn. But what would happen when Rose found out who he was…and why he was really there?

Author : Jordan Shapiro
Publisher : Little, Brown Spark
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-31
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780316437257

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The New Childhood by Jordan Shapiro Pdf

A provocative look at the new, digital landscape of childhood and how to navigate it. In The New Childhood, Jordan Shapiro provides a hopeful counterpoint to the fearful hand-wringing that has come to define our narrative around children and technology. Drawing on groundbreaking research in economics, psychology, philosophy, and education, The New Childhood shows how technology is guiding humanity toward a bright future in which our children will be able to create new, better models of global citizenship, connection, and community. Shapiro offers concrete, practical advice on how to parent and educate children effectively in a connected world, and provides tools and techniques for using technology to engage with kids and help them learn and grow. He compares this moment in time to other great technological revolutions in humanity's past and presents entertaining micro-histories of cultural fixtures: the sandbox, finger painting, the family dinner, and more. But most importantly, The New Childhood paints a timely, inspiring and positive picture of today's children, recognizing that they are poised to create a progressive, diverse, meaningful, and hyper-connected world that today's adults can only barely imagine.

Author : Susan E. Schwartz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-29
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781000222814

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The Absent Father Effect on Daughters by Susan E. Schwartz Pdf

The Absent Father Effect on Daughters investigates the impact of absent – physically or emotionally – and inadequate fathers on the lives and psyches of their daughters through the perspective of Jungian analytical psychology. This book tells the stories of daughters who describe the insecurity of self, the splintering and disintegration of the personality, and the silencing of voice. Issues of fathers and daughters reach to the intra-psychic depths and archetypal roots, to issues of self and culture, both personal and collective. Susan E. Schwartz illustrates the maladies and disappointments of daughters who lack a father figure and incorporates clinical examples describing how daughters can break out of idealizations, betrayals, abandonments and losses to move towards repair and renewal. The book takes an interdisciplinary approach, expanding and elucidating Jungian concepts through dreams, personal stories, fairy tales and the poetry of Sylvia Plath, along with psychoanalytic theory, including Andre Green’s ‘dead father effect’ and Julia Kristeva’s theories on women and the body as abject. Examining daughters both personally and collectively affected by the lack of a father, The Absent Father Effect on Daughters is highly relevant for those wanting to understand the complex dynamics of daughters and fathers to become their authentic selves. It will be essential reading for anyone seeking understanding, analytical and depth psychologists, other therapy professionals, academics and students with Jungian and post-Jungian interests.

Author : Aiden Bates
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1542861446

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Father Figure by Aiden Bates Pdf

Oliver has worked in the lab for three years, and he's been in love with Detective Sam Nenci for almost every second of those three years. When Nenci's boss pairs them up on a complicated case, he finally has a chance to get closer to the alpha of his dreams. When the dream and the reality fail to match up, will there be anything left for either of them to cling to? Oliver Wesson is a hotshot analyst with the State Police Crime Lab. He believes in two things in this world: Science, and saving himself for his alpha. Getting paired up on a case with Detective Nenci is both a dream and a nightmare for him - he has a chance to show off his skills, but Nenci's aversion to omegas in the field is well known. When he finds himself unable to resist his attraction for the older detective, his entire sense of self comes into question. Sam Nenci is the official troll of the Cold Case Squad. He's had some rough experiences in life, and they've left him a little bitter. The one thing he's not bitter about, though, is Oliver Wesson. He's stayed away from the beautiful and brilliant omega, however, because he believes he's too old for Oliver. Sam soon finds that keeping a professional distance between them isn't as easy as it sounds. Every time he thinks he has a chance to make things right with Oliver, he finds himself making a worse mess of things than he had before. Can Sam stop himself from destroying a relationship three years in the making?