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Showing 1 to 20 of 152 for “"Fatherhood"”.
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Black Men's Responsible Fatherhood Narratives: Fatherhood, Responsibility, Race, and Gender
… alike have consistently promoted responsible fatherhood practices as a way to address them. Although responsible fatherhood has received, in this context, a considerable amount of social attention, this attention has come intertwined with considerable political and moral rhetoric at all …
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The Social Construction of Black Fatherhood in Responsible Fatherhood Policies
<p>Responsible fatherhood legislation bridges the gap between two explicit family policies in order to serve fathers: The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996 and the Child Support Enforcement Act of 1975. Historically, these two polices have been …
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The concept of fatherhood in traditional Jewish sources and its impact on current views of fatherhood
… of fathering, it examines all depictions of fatherhood in the works of the prizewinning Israeli author, Haim Sabato. As a leading member of the observant Orthodox community and an accomplished contemporary writer, Sabato's works serve as a great testament of life within traditional …
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Beliefs About Fatherhood Among Social Workers
… was conducted to study the beliefs about fatherhood among social workers. Data for this project were gathered through separate interviews which were conducted using a sample of five individual social workers that worked with children and families. The participants were asked a series of …
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Masculinities and fatherhood in a South African context: exploring Xhosa men's experiences of fatherhood and ideas about masculinities
… qualitative study that explores meanings around fatherhood among Xhosa fathers in Cape Town. In so doing, the dissertation goes on to explore attitudes, beliefs, and needs of these township fathers have with regards to taking care of their children. This is a descriptive and exploratory …
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Fatherhood and Fatherland in Chimamanda Adichie's "Purple Hibiscus".
<p><em>Purple Hibiscus</em>, a novel by third-generation Nigerian author Chimamanda Adichie, appears at first glance to be a simple work of adolescent fiction, a <em>bildungsroman</em> in which a pair of siblings navigate the typical challenges of incipient adulthood: social ostracism, an abusive …
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Family Socialization, Religiosity and Young Men's Fatherhood Plans
… public and private religiosity on young men's fatherhood intentions. Family connection and private religiosity are associated with young men's fatherhood plans.
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Fatherhood, masculinity and anger: men understanding emotion work in families
… to the contemporary agenda on research into fatherhood by focusing on the successes and difficulties of fathers being more involved in the intimate care of their children.2. To contribute to the understanding of how traditional discourses on fatherhood and masculinity may affect involved …
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The Experiences of Japanese Men during the Transition to Fatherhood
… of the Japanese men during the transition to fatherhood. Review of the literature revealed a lack of men's own perspective and justified the need of this study. Hermeneutic phenomenology was chosen because it was most useful to answer questions of meaning of the lived experience. Participants …
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Defining Fatherhood for Non-Residential African American Men: A Phenomenological Approach
… have strong influences on the way in which fatherhood is defined, experienced, and judged. Although there is a plethora of research on fathering involvement in the area of non-resident fathering, this research is dominated by a sampling pool of middle-class European Americans. The purpose of …
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Exploring the experiences of first-time fatherhood : a social constructionist study
… has been many changes to the construction of fatherhood. These changes have not been linear and most significant changes took place during the twentieth century. Four ways of being and acting as a father (i.e., Discourses) have been identified: the father as moral overseer; the father as …
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Stay at Home Dads: How fatherhood is evolving in Irish society.
… is an investigation of the changing role of fatherhood in Irish society, with a particular focus on stay at home dads. The main research question was “is masculinity an issue for stay at home dads in Ireland?” My aim was to look at how men experience at home parenting in a society that is …
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IS THE PARTY OVER? Unmarried Fatherhood and Drug and Alcohol Use
… alcohol by young men. Despite the importance of fatherhood as an adult role, I argue that commitment to the role of fatherhood and not paternity itself is what alters behavior. I hypothesize that young men who assume responsibility for fathering their children are more likely to reduce their drug …
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The Fatherhood of God: an Exegetical Study From the Hebrew Scriptures
… dissertation is to develop a theology of the fatherhood of God from the Hebrew Scriptures. Although many studies have explored the topic from the perspective of other disciplines, the actual theology of God's fatherhood, as revealed in the Hebrew Scriptures, has been neglected until now. This …
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The neural regulation of fatherhood, insights from the anemonfish amphiprion ocellaris
Parental care is a fundamental social behavior exhibited ubiquitously in diverse lineages across the animal kingdom, and when present is critical for offspring survival. Parental care represents a conflict: should parents invest in offspring fitness at the consequence of forgone reproductive …
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Becoming a father / refusing fatherhood: how paternal responsibilities and rights are generated
… which explores men’s normative constructions of fatherhood. The data suggests that fatherhood is essentially a social relationship, constructed within a narrative of responsibility, and that there is a distinction between being a ‘father’ and being a ‘progenitor, both of which give rise to …
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Gender, Family, and New Styles of Fatherhood: Modernization and Globalization in Japan
… the prevalent images of patriarchic and absent fatherhood. But why and how did yesterday's notorious company soldiers turn into today's ikumen? This dissertation interrogates this supposedly drastic shift in the view and the conduct of fatherhood as a cultural practice on historical, political …
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Waiting for Paternity: Interpersonal and Contextual Implications of the Timing of Fatherhood
Previous research suggests that children born to parents at different points in the life-span will be raised in differing contexts, and that timing of first birth has implications for parent-child relations distinct from those of simple parental chronological age. This study examined the effects of …
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