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 Fatherhood Reclaimed: The Making of the Modern Father, by Adrienne Burgess, 1997
What are the roles of the modern father? How do fathers affect their children? Are good fathers born - or made? Do mothers try to shut fathers out? What role will fathers play in the familes of tomorrow?
Ground-breaking, radical and sympathetic, this book challenges assumptions about men as fathers, revealing that parenting behaviour is shaped less by biology than by social conditioning. Men's fathering instincts, strong and innate, are often sabotaged by cultural and social expectations. this informative, fascinating and lively exploration draws on diaries - ancient and modern - as well as on wide-ranging research and interviews with fathers from all social groups, to give voice to what it has meant, and means now, to be a father.
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Child abuse - kids are safest with dads