LEADER 04622nam 2200673Ia 450 001 9910789845403321 005 20230721013906.0 010 $a0-8014-6012-3 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801460128 035 $a(CKB)2670000000079221 035 $a(OCoLC)726824353 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10457702 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000483791 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11316101 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000483791 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10573491 035 $a(PQKB)10196645 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138080 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse28751 035 $a(DE-B1597)515179 035 $a(OCoLC)1083612660 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801460128 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138080 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10457702 035 $a(OCoLC)922998131 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000079221 100 $a20080502d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDefiant dads$b[electronic resource] $efathers' rights activists in America /$fJocelyn Elise Crowley 210 $aIthaca $cCornell University Press$d2008 215 $a1 online resource (318 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-8014-4690-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$t1. A Coming Revolution in Fathers' Rights? --$t2. The Origins of Fathers' Rights Groups in the United States --$t3. Membership Dynamics in Fathers' Rights Groups --$t4. Becoming the Chief: Patterns of Leadership and Governance in Fathers' Rights Groups --$t5. Money Changes Everything, or American Child Support Policy --$t6. The Custody Wars --$t7. Frayed Ties: Fathers' Relationships with Mothers --$t8. The Ties That Bind: Fathers' Relationships with Their Children --$t9. "Crooked Trees," Activism, and Healing in Dissolved Families --$tAppendix A. Research Methodology --$tAppendix B. Unstructured Interview Guide --$tAppendix C. No-Fault Divorce Legislation Dates, by State --$tAppendix D. Number, Rate, and Percent of Births to Unmarried Women and Birthrate for Married Women: United States, 1950-2003 --$tReferences --$tIndex 330 $aAll across America, angry fathers are demanding rights. These men claim that since the breakdown of their own families, they have been deprived of access to their children. Joining together to form fathers' rights groups, the mostly white, middle-class men meet in small venues to speak their minds about the state of the American family and, more specifically, to talk about the problems they personally face, for which they blame current child support and child custody policies. Dissatisfied with these systems, fathers' rights groups advocate on behalf of legal reforms that will lower their child support payments and help them obtain automatic joint custody of their children. In Defiant Dads, Jocelyn Elise Crowley offers a balanced examination of these groups in order to understand why they object to the current child support and child custody systems; what their political agenda, if enacted, would mean for their members' children or children's mothers; and how well they deal with their members' interpersonal issues concerning their ex-partners and their role as parents. Based on interviews with more than 150 fathers' rights group leaders and members, as well as close observation of group meetings and analysis of their rhetoric and advocacy literature, this important book is the first extensive, in-depth account of the emergence of fathers' rights groups in the United States. A nuanced and timely look at an emerging social movement, Defiant Dads is a revealing investigation into the changing dynamics of both the American family and gender relations in American society. 606 $aFathers$xLegal status, laws, etc$zUnited States 606 $aDivorced fathers$xLegal status, laws, etc$zUnited States 606 $aCustody of children$zUnited States 606 $aChild support$xLaw and legislation$zUnited States 606 $aSelf-help groups$zUnited States 615 0$aFathers$xLegal status, laws, etc. 615 0$aDivorced fathers$xLegal status, laws, etc. 615 0$aCustody of children 615 0$aChild support$xLaw and legislation 615 0$aSelf-help groups 676 $a346.7301/7 700 $aCrowley$b Jocelyn Elise$f1970-$01533820 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910789845403321 996 $aDefiant dads$93853522 997 $aUNINA