Forty Fathers

Author : Tessa Lloyd
Publisher : Douglas & McIntyre
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-19
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781771622448

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Forty Fathers by Tessa Lloyd Pdf

When Tessa Lloyd’s sons-in-law became fathers, she searched for resources that would help inspire them—especially parenting stories from other fathers. However, that book didn’t seem to exist. As a counsellor for children and families, Lloyd understood the ways a father-child relationship can have a lasting effect through the generations. Seeing a need, Lloyd decided to gather these stories herself. This resulting volume collects the stories and portraits of forty Canadian fathers who open up about both their own fathers and their deeply personal parenting experiences. This diverse group includes Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, writer Lawrence Hill, academic Niigaan Sinclair, athlete Trevor Linden, restaurateur Vikram Vij, anthropologist Wade Davis, musician Alan Doyle, artist Robert Bateman and philanthropist Rick Hansen. The contributors reflect on their varied parenting experiences and challenges, including parenting while incarcerated, parenting across cultural barriers, parenting through divorce, parenting while transgender, parenting as a celebrity and parenting with a disability. Many common themes emerge throughout the stories, including the process of overcoming cultural messages that encourage men to be strong, authoritarian and emotionally unavailable. The stories are extraordinarily candid and vulnerable, as the fathers describe their own failings, regrets and childhood traumas, as well as the humbling process of trying to do better. In one anecdote, Dr. Greg Wells describes the experience of meeting another father walking the empty streets at three a.m. with an infant, and how that moment of shared recognition gave him strength at a difficult time. The stories in this book offer a similar glimpse into the shared experiences and trials of fatherhood, but also offer fascinating reflections on the more universal experiences of finding one’s place within a family and striving to be a better person for the sake of others.

Author : Tessa Lloyd
Publisher : Douglas & McIntyre
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-19
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1771622431

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Forty Fathers by Tessa Lloyd Pdf

Forty fathers, from the Canadian prime minister to prominent athletes and artists, reflect on their unique parenting challenges and accomplishments.

Author : William Marsiglio,Kevin Roy
Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781610447768

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Nurturing Dads by William Marsiglio,Kevin Roy Pdf

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, cultural, and economic challenges men face in contemporary families and foster more meaningful engagement between many different kinds of fathers and their children. What makes a good father? The firsthand accounts in Nurturing Dads show that the answer to this question varies widely and in ways that counter the mainstream "provide and reside" model of fatherhood. Marsiglio and Roy document the personal experiences of more than 300 men from a wide range of socioeconomic backgrounds and diverse settings, including fathers-to-be, young adult fathers, middle-class dads, stepfathers, men with multiple children in separate families, and fathers in correctional facilities. They find that most dads express the desire to have strong, close relationships with their children and to develop the nurturing skills to maintain these bonds. But they also find that disadvantaged fathers, including young dads and those in constrained financial and personal circumstances, confront myriad structural obstacles, such as poverty, inadequate education, and poor job opportunities. Nurturing Dads asserts that society should help fathers become more committed and attentive caregivers and that federal and state agencies, work sites, grassroots advocacy groups, and the media all have roles to play. Recent efforts to introduce state-initiated paternity leave should be coupled with social programs that encourage fathers to develop unconditional commitments to children, to co-parent with mothers, to establish partnerships with their children's other caregivers, and to develop parenting skills and resources before becoming fathers via activities like volunteering and mentoring kids. Ultimately, Marsiglio and Roy argue, such combined strategies would not only change the policy landscape to promote engaged fathering but also change the cultural landscape to view nurturance as a fundamental aspect of good fathering. Care is a human experience—not just a woman's responsibility—and this core idea behind Nurturing Dads holds important implications for how society supports its families and defines manhood. The book promotes the progressive notion that fathers should provide more than financial support and, in the process, bring about a better start in life for their children. A Volume in the American Sociological Association's Rose Series in Sociology

Author : Stanley H. Cath,Alan R. Gurwitt,Linda Gunsberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 782 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781134876891

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Fathers and Their Families by Stanley H. Cath,Alan R. Gurwitt,Linda Gunsberg Pdf

In 28 chapters and extensive editorial commentary, this book explores the changing roles of fathers -- changes prompted partly by societal shifts and partly by changes in the family and in "traditional" parental roles. Among the topical studies con

Author : Jaipaul L. Roopnarine
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9798216083535

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Fathers across Cultures by Jaipaul L. Roopnarine Pdf

This volume offers a comprehensive, up-to-date synopsis of fathering and father-child relationships in diverse regions of the world, helping students and practitioners alike understand cultural variations in male parenting. Interest in the role of the father and his influence on children's development and economic well-being has grown considerably. This edited volume uses detailed accounts to provide culturally situated analysis of fathering in cultures around the world. The book's contributors, a multidisciplinary group of scholars, bring together the most recent theoretical thinking and research findings on fatherhood and fathering in cultural communities across developed, recently developed, and developing societies. They address such issues as fathering and gender equality in caregiving, concepts of masculinity in contemporary societies, fathering in various ethnic groups, immigrant fathers, fathering and childhood outcomes, and social policies as they affect and are affected by issues related to fathering. Organized geographically, the book scrutinizes major sociocultural, demographic, economic, and other factors that influence men's relationships within families. It shows how economic conditions impact men's involvement with children and considers the effects of ideological belief systems and views of spousal/partner roles and responsibilities. The analysis is underpinned by recent data that underscores the significance of fathers' involvement with and investment in the well-being of their children.

Author : Jess Maghan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-16
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1566499550

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40 Fathers by Jess Maghan Pdf

Who would I be if my father had been someone else? This startling and beautiful book is a valiant attempt to answer this universal and searching question.The subjects of this book set out on that search under the guidance of Jess Maghan, a world renown expert on the subject of authority. Using forced field writing, they were able to distill their findings into essays of 350 words. Illustrated with contemporary photos of subjects and archival photos of their fathers

Author : Martin Robb
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783039367009

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Fathers and Forefathers by Martin Robb Pdf

Research on fathers and fatherhood has blossomed in recent years, focusing, for the most part, on present-day fathering experiences but also beginning to uncover hidden narratives of past fatherhood. This collection aims to add something new to this expanding field by exploring the dynamic relationship between present and past fatherhoods. The popular understanding of fathers in past generations, as being detached and uninvolved in the lives of their children, can be said to play a significant part in the construction of modern fathering identities, with ideas of “new” fatherhood being played off against notions of historical fathering practices. However, research has begun to show that these popular myths often misremember the past, judging it by current standards and obscuring the diverse nature of fathering practices in the recent and distant past. A genealogical approach is able to critically examine these intergenerational constructions of fatherhood and more positively illuminate the ways in which experiences of fathering and being fathered are passed on between generations. The contributions to this collection use a genealogical approach (broadly defined) to fathering and fatherhood as a way of defamiliarizing accepted narratives and suggesting new ways of thinking about men and their relationships with their children.

Author : Shmuel Shulman,Inge Seiffge-Krenke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317356936

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Fathers and Adolescents by Shmuel Shulman,Inge Seiffge-Krenke Pdf

The understanding and study of fathers has traditionally assumed that fathers, compared to mothers, are less involved with their children. Originally published in 1997 Fathers and Adolescents presents a different approach that focuses on the distinctive role of fathers in the lives of their adolescents, especially in their role in adolescents’ attainment of developmental tasks. Drawing on a variety of disciplines, the authors’ examine the relationships of fathers to their adolescents in the context of a changing society. They find that fathers interact in ways that are different from those of mothers, but that are important for both normal and disturbed adolescent development. Psychopathological, aggressive and incestuous behaviour is considered as well as the role of the father in more ideal circumstances. Drawing on the authors’ wealth of clinical experience, this title will still be an important resource for all professionals working with adolescents, as well as those in research.

Author : Gary Ritner
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0819184667

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Fathers' Liberation Ethics by Gary Ritner Pdf

Fathers' Liberation Ethics provides a holistic ethical argument for active involvement by fathers in child caring with their children. Building on social analysis of the causes for father absence, this book provides a radical and comprehensive strategy for transforming the society into one of greater equality between men and women where men share equally in child-care-giving. Contents: A Critique of Traditional Roles; A Critique of the Absent Father; A Moral Argument for ANF; Motivating Myths for ANF; Rebirth for ANF; Do Work Innovations Promote ANF?; Bringing Back the Banished Father; Conclusion.

Author : Rachel Condry,Peter Scharff Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780192538130

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Prisons, Punishment, and the Family by Rachel Condry,Peter Scharff Smith Pdf

Every year millions of families are affected by the imprisonment of a family member. Children of imprisoned parents alone can be counted in millions in the USA and in Europe. It is a bewildering fact that while we have had prisons for centuries, and the deprivation of liberty has been a central pillar in the Western mode of punishment since the early nineteenth century, we have only relatively recently embarked upon a serious discussion of the severe effects of imprisonment for the families and relatives of offenders and the implications this has for society. This book draws together some of the excellent research that addresses the impact of criminal justice and incarceration in particular upon the families of offenders. It assembles examples of recent and ongoing studies from eight different countries in order to not only learn about the secondary effects and 'collateral consequences' of imprisonment but also to understand what the experiences and lived realities of prisoners' families means for the sociology of punishment and our broader understanding of criminal justice systems. While punishment and society scholarship has gained significant ground in recent years it has often remained silent on the ways in which the families of prisoners are affected by our practices of punishment. This book provides evidence of the importance of including families within this scholarship and explores themes of legitimacy, citizenship, human rights, marginalization, exclusion, and inequality.

Author : Jean Barman
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774845021

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Growing Up British in British Columbia by Jean Barman Pdf

During the first half of this century, about fifty non-Canadian private boys' schools existed in British Columbia, virtually all of them founded on the principles of private education in Britain and intended to serve the offspring of British settlers. In this book Jean Barman explains the appeal of the British model of education, re-creates the ethos of private school life, and analyzes the effect of these schools on the social fabric of the province.

Author : Henry Harbaugh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Reformed Church
ISBN : PSU:000006366766

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The Fathers of the German Reformed Church in Europe and America by Henry Harbaugh Pdf

Author : Harriett Wilson,G.W. Herbert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781135676674

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Parents and Children in the Inner City by Harriett Wilson,G.W. Herbert Pdf

This book was first published in 1978. The parents about whom the authors have written this book live in the poorest areas of a large city. They are widely dispersed; they do not know one another. There are certain features about their lives that bind them together and make them speak as if they had exchanged their views. Many come from large families and know the sorrows of premature death, disablement, stillbirth and unwanted pregnancy. This account of fifty-six families is an attempt to explore the interrelationship between the parents' circumstances and the difficulties encountered by their children.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1830
Category : Electronic
ISBN : COLUMBIA:0043331483

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The New Testament ... by Anonim Pdf

Author : Patricia K. Kerig,Marc S. Schulz,Stuart T. Hauser
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-04
Category : FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS
ISBN : 9780199736546

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Adolescence and Beyond by Patricia K. Kerig,Marc S. Schulz,Stuart T. Hauser Pdf

This volume offers an accessible synthesis of research, theories, and perspectives on the family processes that contribute to development.