| Description |
288 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Sage focus editions ; 76 |
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Sage focus editions ; 76.
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| Contents |
Introduction: what men get out of marriage and parenthood / Robert A. Lewis -- Part I: Men as husbands -- Why men get married: more and less traditional men compared / Bruce Nordstrom -- Why some men do not marry / Stephen F. Duncan -- Characteristics of husbands' family work and wives' labor force involvement / Patrick C. McKenry, Sharon J. Price, Philip B. Gordon, and Nancy M. Rudd -- Husbands' responsibility for household tasks in older marriages: does living situation make a difference? / Timothy H. Brubaker and Linda Ade-Ridder -- Husbands; jealousy / Bram Buunk -- Husbands, lovers, and loneliness / Jenny De Jong-Gierveld -- Part II: Men as fathers -- Delayed childbearing: men's thinking about the fertility decision / Kristine M. Baber and Albert S. Dreyer -- Effects of increased paternal involvement on children in two-parent families / Michael E. Lamb, Joseph H. Pleck, and James A. Levine -- Some parenting attitudes of young black fathers / Michael E. Connor -- Black fathers' relationships with their preschool children and the children's development of ethnic identity / John Lewis McAdoo -- Parent-child relationships in single-father families / Shirley M.H. Hanson -- Fathers' supportiveness: perceptions of fathers and college daughters / Peggy S. Draughn and Mary L. Waggenspack -- Part III: Men in family, kin, and friendship networks -- Family life events, depression, and black men / Lawrence E. Gary -- Grandfathers: making up for lost opportunities / Graeme Russell -- Men and their friendships / Peter J. Stein -- Identity change among older and younger men / Mick Coleman and Jack O. Balswick. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies. |
| Subject |
Husbands.
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Father and child.
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Sex role.
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Families.
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| Added Author |
Lewis, Robert A. (Robert Alan), 1932-
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Salt, Robert E.
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| ISBN |
0803925263 |
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0803925271 paperback |
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