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Make room for daddy: these days, Hollywood is
focusing on dads and men working in child care. Is the church doing the same?
(culture in context): An article from: U.S. Catholic
by Patrick McCormick
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A Child and Youth Care Approach to
Working with Families
by Thom Garfat (Editor)
*See chapter: What about the dads? Issues and possibilities of working with men
from a Child and Youth Care perspective, by Mark Smith (2003)
Editorial Reviews
Gale Burford, PhD, MSW, Professor, Department of Social Work, University of
Vermont
Whether you are a seasoned practitioner, student, teacher, or supervisor, there
is something here for you.
Karl W. Gompf, BSc, MA, Consultant in Child and Youth Care, Red River College,
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
From ethics to data, from activities to support groups, from frontline to being
in family homes � It's all here.
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The Stay-at-Home Dad Handbook
by Peter Baylies and Jessica Toonkel
Book Description
Written by a stay-at-home dad for other stay-at-home dads, this handbook
addresses the particular parenting issues men face when they become the primary
caregivers. This "man-friendly" resource offers practical solutions to such
challenges as living well on one income, understanding the wife's breadwinner
status, cleaning the house without feeling overwhelmed, and networking in a
female-oriented community. Creative anecdotes offer supportive and effective
advice to help stay-at-home dads successfully deal with the psychological
issues, as well as the everyday details, that make this parenting situation
different. This advice-oriented guide also offers a special section of
newsletters, online chat groups, playgroups around the country, and stay-at-home
dad organizations.
About the Author
Peter Baylies has been a stay-at-home dad for his two sons for over 10 years. He
writes the At-Home Dad Newsletter and he is the founder of The At-Home Dad
Network, a stay-at-home dad online community. His work has been featured or
mentioned in the Boston Globe, the Christian Science Monitor, Men's Health,
O,
The Oprah Magazine, Parents, USA Today, and Woman's Day. He lives in North
Andover, Massachusetts.
Jessica Toonkel is the managing editor for Fund Marketing Alert/Fund Action. She
has been a reporter and editor covering international business and finance for
publications such as American Banker, American Lawyer, and Financial
Net Alert.
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Parenting Together: Men and Women
Sharing the Care of Their Children
by Diane Ehrensaft
Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Ehrensaft, wife and mother, practicing psychologist and professor of psychology
at UC Berkeley reports on her own and her patients' experiences sharing
childcare equally between husband and wife. The study emphasizes the differences
between what parents anticipate and the complex realities of family life. One
mother admits jealousy because her spouse favors the children over her; some
husbands feel their wives neglect them by over-mothering their offspring. A
particularly interesting chapter details effects of modern child-rearing,
relating several instances where little children unselfconsciously adopt
behavior once taboo for their gender: boys cuddling dolls, for example. Readers
come to admire these families who struggle against cultural influences in the
hope that their "sons and daughters . . . will achieve a better balance of being
than their parents."
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to the
Hardcover edition.
From Library Journal
More and more parents are choosing to share fully the parenting of their
children, and not just from economic necessity. Shared parenting usually means
greater involvement by the father in what traditionally was the mother's domain.
What the men and women who choose shared parenting are like, why they have made
such a choice, and what effects this choice has on children and on the parents,
both individually and as a couple, is the subject of Ehrensaft's book. Like
other things human, shared parenting can have problems. Ehrensaft discusses
these problems and gives advice on overcoming them. In the end, however, she
shows that overall, everyone, children, husband/father, wife/mother, and
ultimately society as a whole benefits from shared parenting. Recommended for
all general collections. John Moryl, Yeshiva Univ. Lib., New York
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc
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Child
Care and Inequality: Rethinking Carework for Children and Youth (Gender Lens
series)
by Francesca M. Cancian, Demie Kurz,
Andrew S. London, Rebecca Reviere, Mary C. Tuominen (Eds)
Book Description
How do we provide adequate child care for our kids? How do we close the gap
between children in desperate need of quality care and healthcare providers with
scarce financial and material resources to provide for them?
This collection has assembled a team of the top names in the field to provide a
wide-ranging and thought-provoking analysis on the state of child care today.
Contributors consider the intersecting inequalities of race, ethnicity, gender,
social class and sexual orientation and the ways in which each shapes the
provision of care and young people. All essays are original and address a range
of topics including issues of power and inequality in carework, family and
neighborhood resources, workplace demands and opportunities for parents, and
carework and the welfare state. As one of the most pressing problems facing
families today, this collection challenges scholars, policymakers and concerned
community members to rethink the issues, revitalize the debate and reconsider
how to establish a healthcare system that better serves its most important
clients.
About the Author
Francesca M. Cancian is Professor of Sociology at University of California,
Irvine. Demie Kurz is co-director of Women's Studies at the University of
Pennsylvania and the author of For Richer, For Poorer (Routledge, 1995). Andrew
S. London is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Kent State University. Rebecca Reviere is Associate Professor at Howard University. Mary Tuominen is Associate
Professor of Sociology at Denison University.
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How tough could it be?: The trials and errors of a sportswriter turned
stay-at-home dad
by Austin Murphy
Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Murphy (The Sweet Season) has been a Sports Illustrated staffer
since 1984, covering everything from football and swimsuits to the Tour de
France and the Olympics. Unfortunately, while globe-hopping and meeting
deadlines, he was missing key events in the lives of his young children. A
six-month sabbatical enabled him to explore a new, unfamiliar lifestyle as a
Marin County Mr. Mom, while his wife "flung herself into her long-neglected
writing career." Murphy soon found himself donning oven mitts, picking up dry
cleaning, buying toothpaste and tampons, housecleaning, slicing onions (and
fingers), carpooling to the elementary school and folding laundry. Despite
pointers from his wife, meals remained a challenge: "There is homework
enforcement and, if I'm on the ball, the preparing of tomorrow's lunches while
cooking tonight's dinner." Skilled at capturing human interest details, Murphy
writes in a fluid, anecdotal manner, displaying a sensitivity and homey humor
that will be equally appreciated by men and women. Female readers will smile
with satisfaction as Murphy attempts anger management while confronting "unpaid
work to which there is no end." Asked how "the Experiment" is going, he compares
it "to entering the ring with the unseen adversary. I never know where the next
blow will come from." At the end of the six months, Murphy realizes he's "now
equipped to be a bigger help for the remainder of our days together.... If I am
not, like Thomas, a 'very useful engine,' I am at least a more useful engine
than I was."
Copyright � Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All
rights reserved.
From Booklist
Murphy, a senior writer for Sports Illustrated, has a way-cool gig,
covering all the major sports, but he decided to take a six-month sabbatical as
a stay-at-home dad while his wife pursued her career, also as a writer. The
result is hardly a surprise: Murphy learns that domestic engineering is a tough
job and that mixing love with discipline is even tougher. There are the usual
comic set pieces involving off-to-school chaos and terrible dinners, but somehow
Murphy keeps it fresh with self-deprecating humor, a genuine desire to connect
with his kids on a higher plane than middle-aged playmate, and a crisp style
that incorporates some of the absurdist sensibilities of Dave Barry. Despite
Murphy's Sports Illustrated connection, the target audience here is the
off-the-sports-page crowd. Don't be surprised if Murphy turns up on The View
singing the praises of enlightened parenthood.
Wes Lukowsky
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Male practitioners in Child and Youth Care: An endangered species?
by Niall McElwee
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