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Fatherhood and family policy

Title: Fatherhood and family policy / edited by Michael E. Lamb, Abraham Sagi.
Publication: Hillsdale, N.J. ; London : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1983.

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xi, 276 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

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Includes bibliographies and indexes.

Contents

Fatherhood and social policy in international perspective : an introduction / Michael E. Lamb -- Paternal child care as a policy relevant social phenomenon and research topic : the question of values / Rivka Eisikovits: Introduction ; The social context of parental child care: implications for values ; The transmission of changing cultural norms: implications for paternal child care as an emergent pattern ; Value considerations in research on fathers: implications for policy -- Fatherhood and social policy : some insights from a comparative perspective / Sheila B. Kamerman: Social policy and family policy: defining the terms ; Gender in social and family policies ; Family policy in the 1980s -- The Swedish parental insurance policy : an experiment in social engineering / Michael E. Lamb, James A. Levine: The goals of family policy ; The parental insurance scheme ; Utilization of parental leave by fathers ; Factors limiting utilization of paid parental leave by fathers -- The father's case in child custody disputes : the contributions of psychological research / Ross A. Thompson: The development of the best interests guideline ; The relevance of psychological research to judicial issues ; Fathers in the intact family ; The effects of divorce on children and their parents ; Fathers as single parents.
The Fatherhood Project / James A. Levine, Joseph H. Pleck, Michael E. Lamb: The problem ; Goals and objectives ; Description of activities -- The gender dilemma in social welfare : who cares for children? / Martin Wolins: The father as asset ; The father as problem ; The father as irrelevant figure ; The "proper" gender of caretakers -- Fathers and child welfare services : the forgotten clients? / Eliezer D. Jaffe: Devaluation of the father's role ; Fathers as a subculture -- Increased paternal participation : the fathers' perspective / Graeme Russell, Norma Radin: Paternal participation ; Possible impact of increased participation on fathers ; Factors that may influence paternal participation -- Increased fathering : effects on the mother / Lois Wladis Hoffman: Will paternal participation increase? ; Effects on the mother -- Increased father participation and child development outcomes / Norma Radin, Graeme Russell: Research strategies employed in the study of parental influences ; Processes by which paternal influence may be exerted ; Father-influences on child development ; Similarities and differences in findings for paternal influence in traditional and high-father-involved families ; Gaps in our knowledge about the influences of highly participant fathers.
Costs and benefits of increased paternal involvement in childrearing : the societal perspective / Abraham Sagi, Nachman Sharon: Preferences for the nuclear family arrangement ; Changing family roles ; Consequences ; Toward increased paternal involvement ; Determinants of paternal involvement ; Strengths and probabilities ; Cost analysis -- Cross-cultural uses of research on fathering / Rivka Eisikovits, Martin Wolins: Why cross-cultural research/information on fathering? ; The case of immigration ; The knowledge we have: the knowledge we need -- Summary and recommendations for public policy / Michael E. Lamb, Graeme Russell, Abraham Sagi: Employment ; Legal practices ; Health practices ; Education ; Social services ; Public policy.

ISBN

0898591902
9780898591903

LCCN

82018282

OCLC

ocm21627617
21627617
SCSB-87280

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Princeton University Library