All 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.
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