Absent Fathers?

Description

Much has been written and debated on lone mothers. However little has been discussed about non-resident fathers. This text is part of a growing literature on men and masculinities and takes this debate further. Drawn from one of the best social policy units in the UK and results from the ESRC Programme on Population and Household Change, it provides a text for undergraduates in social policy and should also be of interest to professionals concerned with family breakdown and child support.

All the authors are based at the Institute for Research in the Social Sciences at York University. Carol Stimson died before the project was completed, but Jonathan Bradshaw, Christine Skinner and Julie Williams continued and finished writing the manuscript.

""While it has become a favorite pasttime of the media and political groups to criticize men who live apart from their children, the authors try to take a more fair and in-depth examination of the phenomenon of absent fathers. . . [they] conclude by suggesting that those who would condemn so-called 'deadbeat dads' consider the emotional and moral turmoil of those men who have the misfortune of living apart from their children." --Journal of Social Work Education, Fall 2000."