Inter-professional approaches to young fathers [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Jane Reeves

• Pubblicazione: Keswick [England], : M&K Update, 2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (249 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.8742
• Soggetto topico: Teenage fathers; Teenage parents
• Altri autori: ReevesJane
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Prelims; Table of contents; Contributors; Introduction; Chapter 1 Contextualising the evidence: Young fathers, family and professional support; Chapter 2 The legislative and policy context of young fathers and their children; Chapter 3 'I've got to release it': Sexual health and young men; Chapter 4 A father is born: The role of the midwife in involving young fathers in the birth and early parenting of their children; Chapter 5 Safeguarding young fathers and their children; Chapter 6 The role of fathers in their children's lives; Chapter 7 Recklessness, rescue and responsibility; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: With one of the highest teenage pregnancy rates in Europe, young fatherhood, as a site of economic and personal adversity, has become a focus of concern in Britain during the late 1990's. However, despite this policy interest there is surprisingly little British empirical evidence to review.One of the aims of the book is to draw together contemporary research evidence, social theory and policy which may effect how practitioners, students and academics conceptualise and work with young fathers. Consequently, each chapter illustrates the points it makes using discrete evidence from that particul
• Titolo autorizzato: Inter-professional approaches to young fathers
• ISBN: 1-907830-29-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910781005003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II