Generative Fathering
Beyond Deficit Perspectives
Edited by:
- Alan J. Hawkins - Brigham Young University, Provo, USA
- David C. Dollahite - Brigham Young University, Provo, USA
January 1997 | 279 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
Much contemporary scholarship on fathers comes from a deficit model, focusing on men's inadequacies as parents. This volume goes beyond a deficit model of fatherhood to what the editors term a `generative fathering perspective'. This approach sees the work fathers do for their children in terms of caring for and contributing to the life of the next generation.
Following a description of generative fathering, placing it in contrast to the role-inadequacy perspective of fatherhood, the contributors elaborate on generative fathering in terms of gender, ethnicity and historical perspectives. They present research that helps readers to understand generative fathering in challenging life circumstances, such as special-needs children, teenage fathering, divorce and remarriage. A chapter on ways to teach about generative fathering concludes the volume.
John Snarey
Foreword
PART ONE: BUILDING A PERSPECTIVE OF GENERATIVE FATHERING
Alan J Hawkins and David C Dollahite
Beyond the Role-Inadequacy Perspective of Fathering
David C Dollahite, Alan J Hawkins and Sean E Brotherson
Fatherwork
Kathleen Gerson
An Institutional Perspective on Generative Fathering
William D Allen and Michael Connor
An African Amercian Perspective on Generative Fathering
Robert L Griswold
Generative Fathering
PART TWO: EXPLORING GENERATIVE FATHERING IN CHALLENGING CIRCUMSTANCES
Sean E Brotherson and David C Dollahite
Generative Ingenuity in Fatherwork with Young Children with Special Needs
J Lyn Rhoden and Bryan E Robinson
Teen Dads
Kay Pasley and Carmelle Minton
Generative Fathering after Divorce and Remarriage
Alfred DeMaris and Geoffrey L Greif
Single Custodial Fathers and Their Children
Anna Dienhart and Kerry Daly
Men and Women Cocreating Father Involvement in a Nongenerative Culture
PART THREE: ENCOURAGING THE APPLICATION OF GENERATIVE FATHERING IN PRACTICE AND SCHOLARSHIP
Glen F Palm
Promoting Generative Fathering through Parent and Family Education
Anna Dienhart and David C Dollahite
A Generative Narrative Approach to Clinical Work with Fathers
Rob Palkovitz
Reconstructing `Involvement'
William J Doherty
The Best of Times and the Worst of Times
David C Dollahite, Stephanie N Morris and Alan J Hawkins
Questions and Activities for Teaching about Generative Fathering in University Courses