The legal status, responsibilities and rights of men who are fathers - married or unmarried, cohabiting or separated, biological or social in nature - is a topic with a long and well-documented ...history. Yet recent developments in a number of countries suggest a growing politicisation of the relationship between law and fatherhood. In some countries, an increasingly vocal, visible and well-organised fathers' rights movement has been credited with influencing perceptions of the politics of family justice. Fathers, it is argued, have become the new victims of family law justice systems that have swung 'too far' in favour of mothers. Armed with such claims, fathers' rights activists have set out to achieve a range of legal reforms, most notably in the areas of child support law and contact and residence rights following separation. This book presents an attempt to understand these developments. Bringing together leading international commentators it provides a careful, critical and comparative analysis of the work of fathers' rights activists, the role law has played in their campaigning, their legal strategies, their success (or otherwise) in achieving legal reform, similarities and divergences with the women's movement, and the relationship between fathers' rights movements and the societies that frame them. In addition to Collier and Sheldon, contributors include: Susan B Boyd (University of British Columbia, Canada), Jocelyn Crowley (Rutgers University, USA), Maria Eriksson (Goteborg University, Sweden), Keith Pringle (Aalborg University, Denmark), Helen Rhoades (Melbourne University, Australia), and Carol Smart (Manchester University, UK).
Battering as a consequence of power and powerlessness. Men learn to talk about domestic violence and their relationships with women and children through group work This article reports on a working ...visit of a week (in September 2010), to three domestic abuse programmes aimed at male perpetrators of abuse, in Minnesota in the USA. So far, an effective domestic violence intervention, or a model or treatment which is superior, is lacking (Babcock, Green & Robie, 2004). An important goal of the visit was to gain more insight into the ways American colleagues, in research and practice, deal with male perpetrators of abuse; how they perform risk analyses; how they provide help, support and safety. Also, the author wanted to know how they deal with the fact that these men often are fathers. The working visit provided valuable inside information. The author spoke with experts and practitioners, observed group-work and, in doing so, gained insight into the power and powerlessness of male perpetrators of abuse and their roles as partners and fathers. Combining insights from these conversations and observations and existing theory, this article gives a practice based view on how American colleagues deal with these men. Slaan uit macht en onmacht. Mannen leren in groepswerk praten over het geweld en hun relaties met vrouwen en kinderen Dit artikel doet verslag van een werkbezoek, afgelegd in september 2010, aan een drietal projecten gericht op de behandeling van mishandelende mannen in Minnesota, Amerika. Wereldwijd is duidelijk geworden dat er tot op heden geen effectieve interventie is voor mishandelende mannen, noch een behandeling die superieur is aan anderen (Babcock, Green & Robie, 2004). Een belangrijk aandachtspunt van deze studiereis was de vader- en partnerrol van mannen die hun partner mishandelen. Een belangrijke vraag was hoe onze Amerikaanse collega’s zowel in onderzoek als in de praktijk met mishandelende mannen omgaan en hoe ze risico’s inschatten en hulp verlenen. Meer specifiek wilden we weten hoe ze omgaan met het feit dat veel van deze mishandelende mannen vaders zijn. Het werkbezoek verschafte ons waardevolle inside informatie. De auteur sprak met experts en professionals in de praktijk, observeerde groepen mishandelende mannen en kreeg inzicht in de macht en machteloosheid van mishandelende mannen in hun rol als partners en vaders. Dit artikel geeft een op de praktijk gebaseerd zicht op hoe men omgaat met mishandelende mannen en combineert de observaties van experts en professionals in de praktijk met enige literatuur
Mixing Metaphors Dille, Sarah J
2004, 2004-07-01, Volume:
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While most treatments of biblical metaphor examine individual metaphors in isolation, Sarah J. Dille presents a model for interpretation based on their interaction with one another. Using Lakoff and ...Johnson's category of "metaphoric coherence", she argues that when nonconsistent or contradictory metaphors appear together in a literary unit, the areas of overlap (coherence) are highlighted in each. Using the images of father and mother in Deutero-Isaiah as a starting point, she explores how these images interact with others: for example, the divine warrior, the redeeming kinsman, the artisan of clay, or the husband. The juxtaposition of diverse metaphors (common in Hebrew prophetic literature) highlights common "entailments", enabling the reader to see aspects of the image which would be overlooked or invisible if read in isolation. Dille argues that any metaphor for God can only be understood if it is read or heard in interaction with others within a particular cultural context.
Debates about the future of fatherhood have been central to a range of conversations about changing family forms, parenting and society. Law has served an important, yet often neglected, role in ...these discussions, serving as an important focal point for broader political frustrations, playing a central role in mediating disputes, and operating as a significant, symbolic, state-sanctioned account of the scope of paternal rights and responsibilities. Fragmenting Fatherhood provides the first sustained engagement with the way that fatherhood has been understood, constructed and regulated within English law. Drawing on a range of disparate legal provisions and material from diverse disciplines, it sketches the major contours of the figure of the father as drawn in law and social policy, tracing shifts in legal and broader understandings of what it means to be a 'father'and what rights and obligations should accrue to that status.
An unplanned pregnancy in adolescence can be a crisis not only for young unmarried mothers, but also for unmarried fathers of the same age group. This landmark volume is the first in-depth, practical ...guide to counselling teenage fathers. Taking a multicultural perspective, the volume addresses issues that may have a bearing on a young man′s adjustment to fatherhood, such as his relationships with his parents, his child, the mother of his child, her parents and his peers.
Fatherhood Marsiglio, William
1995, 1995-04-03, 19950101, Volume:
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This collection of empirical and theoretical articles presents new theoretical models and the results of current research on the role of fathers in families. The articles cover differences in ...culture, class, nationality and custodial status and focus on legal, economic and policy questions.
This qualitative study of 18 shared parenting couples explores men′s and women′s resourcefulness as they create together alternatives to traditional parenting patterns. Narrative accounts show a ...diversity of possible ways to organize family life so both mothers and fathers can be active in parenting. The many strategies followed by these couples - including tag-team parenting, interchangeability of roles, and division of labor - share a flexibility which challenges the many researchers who are fixated on static models of gendered family life.
Om zaad van een zo hoog mogelijke genetische kwaliteit te verkrijgen worden zaadgaarden (aanplantingen van geselecteerde klonen voor de productie van zaad) zoveel mogelijk geïsoleerd van beplantingen ...van dezelfde soort, om achtergrondbestuiving te voorkomen. In de eikenzaadgaard 'Bremerberg' in Flevoland is d.m.v. vaderschapsanalyse met behulp van DNA-merkers (microsatellieten)onderzoek gedaan naar de mate van achtergrondbestuiving en de bijdrage van de verschillende klonen aan de bevruchting. Het merendeel van de eikels van de moederbomen blijkt bevrucht te zijn met stuifmeel van buiten de zaadgaard, maar dit blijkt geen afbreuk te doen aan de kwaliteit van het zaadgaardmateriaal. De consequenties voor aanleg en beheer van zaadgaarden worden besproken
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