What would you give to know the revolutionary principle that could change your life, your relationships, your management style, and your happiness level-- instantly? Sound simple? It is-- and yet it is powerful enough to transform your life.Robert Watts, former NFL star, current business consultant and motivational speaker, and one who overcame incredible odds to achieve great personal and professional success, helps you discover a new way to understand yourself and the people around you. As you learn to build relationships based on the right kind of compassion and respect, you'll release…
The concept of fatherlessness has emerged at the center of debates over welfare, poverty, sexuality, divorce, family values, and "racial disorder." Do children need fathers? Do mothers need husbands? Should we celebrate or grieve the loss (or transformation) of fatherhood? Is there a relation between "fatherlessness" and the destitution and crime of inner-city communities? Or is talk about "fatherlessness" simply a political diversion from the true sources of inequality and social disruption? This collection brings together the voices of nine highly diverse scholars to reflect on the…
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The rapid development of fathering programs has been accompanied by renewed efforts to define good fathering. Programs to promote good fathering have emerged in complex social environments with limited evaluation of effective practice. This paper will address two major issues that fathering programs face in the 1990s. The first issue is the need for a guiding image of good fathering that can be applied to the diverse set of fathering programs that currently exist. The second issue is the identification of effective practice that moves beyond specific case studies to a more general approach to…
Over the past decade, fathering programs of various kinds have proliferated in a number of different contexts. These programs are faced with two critical issues. The first is the need for a practical, inclusive, yet challenging framework to guide effective practice in diverse settings. A definition of good fathering as generative fathering is presented. A conceptual model of reflective practice as applied to fathering programs is described. The presentation of the model of reflective practice includes discussions of practitioner relationships, characteristics of reflective practice in action…
Men often feel sidelined as their wives go through pregnancy, childbirth, and nursing. This book puts fathers right into the center of the action. It includes real-world tips from fathers on maintaining discipline, love, and an all-around positive influence; a men's guide to pregnancy and childbirth; practical advice for men about how to care for an infant; and moral support to help men become the best fathers they can be. (Author abstract modified)
Whether you lost your father through death or divorce, or you wished he would have said "I love you" instead of merely being a good provider, you may harbor unresolved hurt in your soul. This hurt--father hunger--masquerades as other symptoms du jour like low self-esteem, fear of intimacy, marital strife, poor work performance, or addictions to food, sex or alcohol.Dr. Beth Erickson shows you how to identify, validate and heal the pain surrounding father loss. By sharing compelling case studies of men and women, and her own personal struggle to accept her father's death, she guides you…
Offering an eloquent combination of fifty beautiful black-and-white photographs and poignant quotations from the fathers and children portrayed, Commitment provides a powerful rendition of fatherhood in black America.The father is often perceived as someone absent from the African American family, though the reasons for this perception vary. This book shows another side to that image, a positive one depicting black men who are supportive and nurturing parents. To reveal and celebrate this less often recognized parent, Carole Patterson has spent several years crossing the continent to…
An essential handbook on all aspects of fatherhood during the second and third years by the author of the best-selling The Expectant Father: Facts, Tips, and Advice for Dads-to-Be and The New Father: A Dad's Guide to the First Years. Incorporating the author's and other fathers' personal experiences, as well as the advice of top researchers in the parenting field, A Dad's Guide to the Toddler Years offers invaluable information and practical tips on such issues as: charting your toddler's physical, intellectual, verbal, and social development; understanding your own emotional and…
Recently, the roles of fathers and husbands in families have been recognized as important issues. They appear in legislation aimed at deadbeat dads, social movements including the Million Man March and Promise Keepers, in the development of advocacy groups, and in think tanks. Therefore, contemporary research on men in family relationships has very mixed results. Some studies show that fathers have small effects on child development and in preventing antisocial behavior, whereas others suggest no effects. Other research claims that the primary importance of men in families is in their role as…
The author of this chapter suggests that attempts to encourage fathers to remain with their families do not address the economic and social reality of low-income men and single parent families. The statistics about father absence fail to calculate the number of non-resident fathers who are involved with their children but do not provide financial assistance and do not consider that residence with an abusive father is more harmful than living in a single parent household. Furthermore, the public image of low-income single mothers depicts them as unwilling to work or supervise their children…
