| Description |
viii, 328 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. The Diminishment of American Fatherhood -- 2. Fatherless Society -- 3. The Lost Idea -- 4. The Unnecessary Father -- 5. The Old Father -- 6. The New Father -- 7. The Deadbeat Dad -- 8. The Visiting Father -- 9. The Sperm Father -- 10. The Stepfather and the Nearby Guy -- 11. The Good Family Man -- 12. A Father for Every Child |
| Summary |
"With passion and precision, Fatherless America demonstrates that whether our concern is with teenage pregnancy, crime, violence against women, educational failure, or child poverty, no social trend of our generation is more dangerous than fatherlessness. It weakens families, harms children, causes or aggravates our worst social problems, and makes individual adult happiness harder to achieve."--BOOK JACKET. "This explosive book goes beyond documenting the effects of fatherlessness on individual families to show how the very ideal of fatherhood is under siege - with devastating consequences for society at large. Fathers are increasingly seen as expendable - or as part of the problem. "Does every child need a father?" David Blankenhorn asks. "Increasingly, our answer is 'no,' or at least 'not necessarily.'""--BOOK JACKET |
| Analysis |
Fatherless families United States |
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Fathers United States |
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Paternal deprivation United States |
| Notes |
Originally published: New York : Basic Books, 1995 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [235]-316) and index |
| Notes |
Also issued online |
| Subject |
Fatherless families -- United States.
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Fathers -- United States.
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Paternal deprivation -- United States.
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Fathers.
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Paternal Deprivation.
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Father-Child Relations.
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Single Parent.
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| SUBJECT |
United States. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481 |
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United States. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481 |
| Genre/Form |
Popular Work.
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| LC no. |
94040151 |
| ISBN |
0465014836 (:$23.00 U.S. : $32.50 Can.) |
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