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Journal Article A descriptive phenomenological study was conducted with six adolescent fathers of Mexican origin on juvenile probation for a variety of serious offenses. All participants successfully completed a parenting program designed especially for teen fathers. In a series of consecutive in-depth interviews, teen fathers were asked to discuss their experiences as fathers. Four phenomena were identified from the data: (a) not giving up and deciding to be a dad, (b) figuring out my relationships after becoming a father, (c) wanting to be a good father, and (d) wanting to be Brown and a father. Findings…
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Journal Article Accounts of fathers' reluctance to engage with locally based family learning groups rarely acknowledge the relationship between learning and identity. This tends not to be the case in parallel accounts of women's reluctance to become involved in groups or networks where the mainstream clientele is male. Drawing on the case study of a national initiative aimed at developing family literacy in local communities throughout the UK, it is argued that decisions to join or not to join these groups is primarily social and cultural rather than individual. This means that the attendance of fathers…
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Journal Article Given the increasing diversity of Western nations, as social workers engage with increasingly diverse families, they need to expand on their contextual understanding of the culturally diverse individuals and families they encounter. This article explores previous understandings of fatherhood in diverse cultural groups and examines recent studies that challenge popular stereotypes of fathers from a variety of ethnicities. Although cross-cultural comparisons provide a starting point in examining fathering practices, care must be taken to allow for a fluid and contextual definition of fatherhood…
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Journal Article This article reviews how eight white international transracially adoptive mothers described their actions in racially and culturally socializing their children. Using in-depth interviews, the perspectives of the mothers were captures, which strengthens the field of social work?s understanding of the complex dynamics in transracial adoptive families. The mothers? actions varied in the degree that a culturally diverse family life was created. Four categories of racial socialization practices were discussed and implications for social work were reviewed. (Author abstract)
