Diaries of a Forgotten Parent: Divorced Dads on Fathering Through and Beyond Divorce
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| Title: | Diaries of a Forgotten Parent: Divorced Dads on Fathering Through and Beyond Divorce |
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| Description: | Diaries of a Forgotten Parent: Divorced Dads on Fathering Through and Beyond Divorce opens an intimate window on the lives of divorced men. Literature on divorce focuses primarily on its effects on women and children, but fair and personal accounts of the lived experiences of custodial and non-custodial fathers are less available. In this highly accessible text, ten American men share intensely personal reflections of guilt, pain, frustration, sacrifice, loneliness and pride. The men do not see themselves as exemplary; rather, their stories are graphically honest, revealing what Paterson calls ordinary men “with all their warts.” The author reviews significant works on the male experience of divorce from psychological, legal, educational and sociological experts, interspersing commentary and research with the men's own voices. From the initial discussion of why men marry and why they divorce through the men's painful memories of being pushed out of their children's lives by angry and resentful mothers, the author illuminates the legal, fiscal, emotional and practical experiences of men struggling to reinvent their fathering while they find themselves reconfigured into deserters, deadbeats and visitors. The societal myth that fathers are less valuable parents than mothers is thoroughly deconstructed in this text. The book will help divorced and divorcing men and those who work with them to fully understand the experiences of fathers who never stopped loving and caring for their children, in spite of the fact that the contributions of fathers are still largely discounted by schools, courts, and worst of all, by their children's mothers. From this book, readers will understand that there are just too many reasons why fathers must never be forgotten in the lives of their children. |
| Authors: | Wendy A. Paterson, Author |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Divorced fathers--United States--Case studies, Fatherhood--United States--Case studies, Father and child--United States--Case studies |
| Categories: | POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture |
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