Generative fathering : beyond deficit perspectives / / edited by Alan J. Hawkins, David C. Dollahite ; foreword by John Snarey

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910480554303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Thousand Oaks, California : , : Sage Publications, , [1997]; ©1997
• ISBN: 1-322-41505-6; 1-4522-4896-6
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (297 p.)
• Collana: Current issues in the family series ; ; v. 3
• Disciplina: 306.874/2
• Soggetti: Fathers - United States; Father and child - United States; Fatherhood - United States; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages [242]-262) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; Part II - Exploring Generative Fathering in Challenging Circumstances; Part III - Encouraging the Application of Generative Fathering in Practice and Scholarship; Foreword: The Next Generation of Work on Fathering; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I - Building a Perspective of Generative Fathering; Chapter 1 - Beyond the Role-Inadequacy Perspective of Fathering; Chapter 2 - Fatherwork: A Conceptual Ethic of Fathering as Generative Work; Chapter 3 - An Institutional Perspective on Generative Fathering: Creating Social Supports for Parenting Equality; Chapter 4 - An African American Perspective on Generative FatheringChapter 5 - Generative Fathering: A Historical Perspective; Chapter 6 - Generative Ingenuity in Fatherwork with Young Children with Special Needs; Chapter 7 - Teen Dads: A Generative Fathering Perspective Versus the Deficit Myth; Chapter 8 - Generative Fathering after Divorce and Remarriage: beyond the "Disappearing Dad"; Chapter 9 - Single Custodial Fathers and Their Children: When Things Go Well; Chapter 10 - Men and Women Cocreating Father Involvement in a Nongenerative Culture; Chapter 11 - Promoting Generative Fathering Through Parent and Family EducationChapter 12 - A Generative Narrative Approach to Clinical Work with Fathers; Chapter 13 - Reconstructing "Involvement": Expanding Conceptualizations of Men's Caring in Contemporary Families; Chapter 14 - The Best of Times and the Worst of Times: Fathering as a Contested Arena of Academic Discourse; Chapter 15 - Questions and Activities for Teaching about Generative Fathering in University Courses; References; Author Index; Subject Index; About the Contributors
• Sommario/riassunto: Much contemporary scholarship on fathers comes from a deficit model, focusing on men's inadequacies as parents. This volume goes beyond a deficit model of fatherhood to what the editors term a `generative fathering perspective'. This approach sees the work fathers do for their children in terms of caring for and contributing to the life of the next generation. Following a description of generative fathering, placing it in contrast to the role-inadequacy perspective of fatherhood, the contributors elaborate on generative fathering in terms of gender, ethnicity and historical perspe