The landscape of Canadian fatherhood has changed dramatically over the past several decades. Shifting family structures, policy issues, and cultural expectations affect men’s interactions with their children and influence the way they perceive their own roles as fathers. The traditional notion of fatherhood may have changed, but fathers are as important today as ever before.Father Involvement in Canada brings together more than a dozen leading scholars of fatherhood issues to examine the roles of Canadian fathers from many angles. Looking at the experiences of fathers from different ethnicities, age groups, marital statuses, gender partnering, and economic brackets, the authors examine issues such as the impact of poverty, access to paternity leave, and the availability of support from social institutions. National in scope, this is the first book of its kind to summarize and challenge current scholarship on Canadian fatherhood and offer new concepts, theoretical frameworks, and research directions.
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Exploring the diverse roles fathers play in their children’s lives, Father Involvement in Canada provides a timely synopsis of current knowledge while challenging many long-held assumptions about fatherhood.
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Foreword / Joseph H. PleckPart 1: Trends and Perspectives: An Overview of Father Involvement1 Father Involvement in Canada: A Transformative Approach / Jessica Ball and Kerry Daly2 Canadian Fathers: Demographic and Socio-Economic Profiles from Census and National Surveys / Zenaida R. Ravanera and John Hoffman3 Fathers Make a Difference in Their Children’s Lives: A Review of the Research Evidence / Sarah Allen, Kerry Daly, and Jessica Ball4 Feminist Mothers Researching Fathering: Advocates, Contributors, and Dissenters / Andrea Doucet and Linda HawkinsPart 2: The Diversity of Fathering Experiences: Contested Terrain5 Young Fatherhood, Generativity, and Men’s Development: Travelling a Two-Way Street to Maturity / Michael W. Pratt, Heather L. Lawford, and James W. Allen6 Aboriginal Fathers in Canada through Time / Jessica Ball7 The Short End of the Stick? Fatherhood in the Wake of Separation and Divorce / Denise L. Whitehead and Nicholas Bala8 Fathering Within Child Welfare / Susan Strega, Leslie Brown, Elizabeth Manning, Christopher Walmsley, Lena Dominelli, and Marilyn Callahan9 The Experiences of Fathers of a Child with a Chronic Health Condition: Caregiving Experiences and Potential Support Interventions / John Beaton, David Nicholas, Ted McNeill, and Lisa WengerPart 3: Toward Social Change: Policy and Practice Issues for Fathers10 Fathers and Parental Leave in Canada: Policies and Practices / Lindsey McKay, Katherine Marshall, and Andrea Doucet11 Looking Forward: Father Involvement and Changing Forms of Masculine Care / Kerry Daly and Jessica BallList of ContributorsIndex
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The most inclusive, incisive, balanced, and comprehensible fathering book available … It is grounded in the best of contemporary research, theory, and policy and framed in socio-historical and contextual changes that reciprocally shape emerging understandings of fathering. Capturing the diversity, multiple-determinism, and cultural embeddedness of fathering, it is astute in presenting the challenges of understanding the complexities of fathering, while furthering a realistic and positive path forward. This book is sure to become a go-to resource for researchers, policy makers, and family interventionists.
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A timely and critical contribution to our understanding of Canadian fathers and the ever-evolving but always-important roles they play in our children’s lives.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780774824019
Publisert
2013-07-01
Utgiver
Vendor
University of British Columbia Press
Vekt
400 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
268

Biographical note

Jessica Ball is a professor in the School of Child and Youth Care at the University of Victoria. Kerry Daly is the dean of the College of Social and Applied Human Sciences at the University of Guelph.

Contributors: James W. Allen, Sarah Allen, Nicholas Bala, John Beaton, Leslie Brown, Marilyn Callahan, Lena Dominelli, Andrea Doucet, Linda Hawkins, John Hoffman, Heather L. Lawford, Elizabeth Manning, Katherine Marshall, Lindsey McKay, Ted McNeill, David Nicholas, Michael W. Pratt, Zenaida R. Ravanera, Susan Strega, Chris Walmsley, Lisa Wenger, and Denise L. Whitehead.