Life without father : compelling new evidence that fatherhood and marriage are indispensable for the good of children and society / [print]
David Popenoe.
- New York, New York : Martin Kessler Books, (c)1996.
- viii, 275 pages ; 25 cm
PennsylvaniaRT ONE: FATHERLESSNESS The remarkable decline of fatherhood and marriage The human carnage of fatherlessness. PennsylvaniaRT TWO: FATHERS Indiana HawaiiSTORY Victorian fathers and the rise of the modern nuclear family The shrinking father and the fall of the nuclear family. PennsylvaniaRT THREE: WHY FATHERS MassachusettsTTER What do fathers do? The essential father. PennsylvaniaRT FOUR: ColoradoNCLUSIONS Reclaiming fatherhood and marriage.
The American family is changing. Divorce, single parents, and stepfamilies are redefining the way we live together and raise our children. Is this a change for the worse? David Popenoe sets out the case for fatherhood and the two-parent family as the best arrangement for ensuring the well-being and future development of children. His argument has two critical assumptions, which he supports with evidence from a variety of disciplines, including anthropology, biology, and history. The first is that children flourish best when raised by a father and a mother with their differing psychological and behavioral traits. The second is that marriage, which serves to hold fathers to the mother-child bond, is an institution we must strengthen if the decline of fatherhood is to be reversed. https://www.amazon.com/Life-without-Father-Compelling-Indispensable/dp/0674532600/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1591213371&sr=8-1
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Fatherless families--United States. Fatherhood--United States. Paternal deprivation--United States. Children of single parents--United States.