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Lost and Found - Young Fathers in the Age of Unwed Parenthood (Hardcover)
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Lost and Found - Young Fathers in the Age of Unwed Parenthood (Hardcover)
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Over the past six decades, there have been dramatic changes in the
dynamics of family life in the United States. Today, about seven
out of 10 babies born to mothers under the age of 25 will not live
with their fathers. From the perspective of many social scientists
and politicians, this change has wreaked havoc on society, trapping
women and children in poverty and loosening the civilizing bond
between men and their families. Gallons of ink have been spilled
making arguments that place the blame for this shift at the feet of
either these individuals themselves, or point to eroding family and
cultural values or systemic failures in social support programs.
This book, however, is different: the goal of Lost and Found is not
to look for blame, but instead to tell the stories of young men
becoming fathers, to help readers understand the complexity of
young couples who are struggling to work together as parents,
sometimes successfully and sometimes not. Drawing from their
research with over 1,000 young parents in Chicago and Salt Lake
City, Paul Florsheim and David Moore focus on a group of about 20
young fathers whose stories-conveyed in their own words-help the
reader make sense of what is happening to fatherhood in America.
Having interviewed young fathers and their partners before and
after their children were born, these stories provide a dynamic
perspective on the development of young men and their
relationships. Young mothers both corroborate and sometimes offer
alternative or contradictory perspectives. Oriented to undo
stereotypes, Florsheim and Moore introduce the notion of "good
enough" fathering, tempering the tendency to think simply in terms
of good or bad fathers. Throughout, the authors draw from a wide
body of scholarship, from evolutionary biology to the economics of
women's rights, to explain how young fathers came to occupy such a
precarious position in contemporary society. In the final chapters,
Florsheim and Moore provide concrete recommendations for
strengthening fathers' roles, offering detailed descriptions of
what can be done to help young fathers and mothers create stable
home environments for their children, whether the parents are
together or not.
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