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Supporting fathers to engage with their children's learning and education : an under-developed aspect of the Parent Support Adviser pilot
Get PDFThe Parent Support Adviser (PSA) role, piloted in 2006-2008 in 20 Local Authorities (LAs) in England, offered preventative and early intervention support to families where there were concerns about children‟s school attendance or behaviour. Overall, this was a highly successful initiative in terms of supporting parental engagement with their children‟s schools. However, this article presents evidence drawn from 162 interviews (with PSAs, their line managers and coordinators in 12 case study LAs) showing that there was one key area in the PSA pilot that was less successful – the engagement of fathers. The article examines views about how to engage fathers and of the barriers explaining the overall absence of fathers from the PSA project. It highlights the dissonance between policy and practitioner guidance on the one hand and practice on the other with regard to the relative failure to engage fathers with this important initiative
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What are the Effects of Mothers’ and Fathers’ Depression and Thoughts of Death on Their Children’s Level of Parental Connectedness?
Get PDFMental health outcomes such as depression are often passed down in families. While links between the mental health conditions of parents and their children have been established, there is a limited understanding of these outcomes over time and the impact that mothers and fathers have on their children independently. Analyzing data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing study, PRC faculty research associates Susan De Luca and Yolanda Padilla and co-author Yan Yueqi show that children felt less connected to both mothers and fathers with mental health symptoms, but the effects varied somewhat based on the sex of the parent.Population Research Cente
Fathers 4 Justice [Hardcover] Matt O'Connor (Author)
No full text5 Photographs published within the first book from Matt O'Connor, a freelance marketing consultant and family law campaigner. This is Matt O'Connor's personal account of the most controversial protest movement of recent times, FATHERS 4 JUSTICE. Fearlessly honest and utterly irreverent Matt's own story will appeal to anyone whose family relationships have been torn to pieces by divorce and the family courts system
A Profile of Fatherhood Among Young Men: Moving Away from Their Birth Family and Closer to Their Child.
Get PDFHave things changed all that much in terms of how fatherhood is conceptualized and exercised in daily life? That is the question underlying this article. The author compares the findings of a recent analysis on certain aspects of the lived experiences of young fathers (under 25 years of age) with the results of studies undertaken over the past ten years, and replies in the affirmative. First of all, when considering the representations held of fathers or mothers, most of these young fathers believe that their role is a multi-faceted one, and that it is often identical to that of their spouse. According to young fathers, fatherhood is a dual experience that requires them to be present on a daily basis while also casting their eye on the future. This is an experience that is constructed out of affectionate moments, child-care duties, education in the literal sense, and especially out of shared experiences with their spouse. In addition, they question the degree to which involvement in a career should take precedence over involvement in their child's life. In other words, the former 'competes' with their ability to be present in their child's daily life, which denotes a change from the attitudes of previous generations.Fatherhood, Young Fathers, Representation, Paternal Identity, Qualitative Research
Susan Walton, Imagining Soldiers and Fathers in the Mid-Victorian Era : Charlotte Yonge’s Models of Manliness
No full textHistorienne de formation et de profession, Susan Walton a suivi des études doctorales au département d’anglais de l’université de Hull, où elle est Honorary Research Associate en études victoriennes. Dans les remerciements au début de son ouvrage, elle rappelle sa double formation en histoire et en littérature. D’emblée, Imagining Soldiers and Fathers in the Mid-Victorian Era se réclame en effet de l’interdisciplinarité. Et Walton de citer en épigraphe, dans l’introduction, Alan Munslow (Deco..
Of Textual Bodies and Actual Bodies: the Abjection of Performance in Lessing's Dramaturgy
Get PDFProceeding from the observation that Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's famous Hamburgische Dramaturgie (Hamburg Dramaturgy) soon abandons the analysis of actual performances in favour of a discussion of character, the article explores Lessing's problematic relationship with the performing body, situating it in the context of an increasingly textual culture. It shows the implications of this move in terms of gender prescriptions before discussing Lessing's ‘disgust’ with a particular performance of his Emilia Galotti. Reading this example with Lessing's treatise Laokoon and drawing on Julia Kristeva's theory of abjection, it argues that Lessing's struggle with the performers reveals a profound crisis in subject formation in the sense that the disturbing corporality of the performing body is always threatening sympathetic identification. The article concludes that the Dramaturgie itself constitutes an ‘abjection’ of performance. A postscript opens up the view onto the contemporary relevance and refiguration of Lessing's Laokoon in the Laokoon Festival in Hamburg
Patriarchy reasserted : fathers' rights and anti-VAWA activism
No full textThe backlash against gender-sensitive responses to women's victimization, offending, and imprisonment is inseparable from contemporary reaction against feminism and other progressive movements. The backlash against the American Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) provides a prime example of this resistance. Despite widespread support for VAWA and other policies designed to address violence against women, some constituencies object to their existence. The author investigates fathers' rights rhetoric on VAWA as an example of antifeminist backlash
Estar Pendiente: Exploring the school engagement of involved Latino fathers
No full textThis study foregrounds the voices of fathers, challenges normative notions of paternal engagement, and contributes to an understanding of how and why Latino fathers of middle school students support their children’s educational success. A subset of five Latino fathers from a larger study responded to interview questions probing their motivations and forms of parental involvement based on the Hoover-Dempsey and Sandler’s model. Fathers constructed their roles as parent or partnership focused, despite fathers’ reports of overcoming obstacles such as lack of knowledge and skills, or time and energy. Their children’s invitations, rather than teacher or school invitations, most powerfully predicted fathers’ home-based involvement
"Quotidiennete" in the writings of Adalbert-G. Hamman (1910-2000) : the existential concern of a twentieth-century patristic scholar
Get PDFIn this short communication, the author presents Hamman's analysis and patristic treatment of the lives of early Christians. Hamman's mastery is evident from the familiarity he shows with the social ambience in which the Fathers lived. In fact there are two works by Hamman which more than any others provide contemporary scholars and readers with an impressive body of data to ponder upon and an encouraging ideal to follow.peer-reviewe
Cognitive style of incestuous fathers
No full textOver the past thirty years, incest, defined as sexual interaction between family members, has become one of the most frequently reported and discussed social problems. When an adult is involved with a minor child, incest is a crime which can result in a lengthy prison sentence. Many communities now offer treatment to incestuous families in addition to or in lieu of incarceration. However, little research with offenders has focused on specific characteristics amenable to change in treatment.
This study compares incestuous fathers with non-incestuous fathers on childhood and adolescent experience of sexual abuse and on five aspects of cognitive style: thinking process, paranoid content, behavioral repertoire, externalizing responsibility, and empathy. All of these are factors which can be worked with specifically in treatment.
Each aspect of cognitive style was measured by codings of written responses to open-ended questions about difficult marital situations and by responses to Likert-scaie items about the same situations. Childhood and adolescent sexual abuse experience was determined by answers to direct questions about victimization or knowledge of familial sexual abuse.
Subgroups of incestuous fathers formed according to the following variables were also compared on the cognitive style measures: progress in treatment, time in treatment, extent of sexual abuse, rainiraizing, coercion, relationship to victim, and age of victim when sexual abuse began.
Incestuous fathers were found to be significantly different from non-incestuous fathers in thinking process, attributions of responsibility, breadth of behavioral repertoire, willingness to express negative feelings, attitudes toward the wife, and history of sexual abuse.
Progress in treatment was found to be related to thinking process, willingness to express negative feelings, and attitudes toward the wife. Other subgroups of incestuous fathers were found to differ on few of the cognitive style variables.
The findings in this study support a treatment focus on changing cognitive style and working through feelings associated with early experience of sexual abuse
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