The myth of the missing black father / edited by Roberta L. Coles and Charles Green.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Coles, Roberta L.

Green, Charles (Charles St. Clair)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American fathers.

Absentee fathers.

African American families.

Physical Description:

xii, 385 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2010]

Contents:

Part I Married Fathers

1 "My Kids and Wife Have Been My Life": Married African American Fathers Staying the Course / Loren Marks, Katrina Hopkins-Williams, Cassandra Chaney, Olena Nesteruk, Diane Sasser 19

2 Poverty and Parenting Style Among Black Married Couples / Ronald E. Bulanda 47

3 Rearing Biracial Children: The Experiences of Black Married Fathers / Erica Chito Childs, Heather M. Dalmage 65

Part II Single Resident Fathers

4 Single Custodial Fathers: A Narrative Tour of-Their Parenting / Roberta L. Coles 83

5 Single Custodial Fathers and Mothers Meeting the Challenge: A Comparative Note / Charles Green 100

6 Public Assistance Receipt: A Comparison of Black and White Single-Father Families / Aurea K. Osgood, Ryan D. Schroeder 125

Part III Social Fathering

7 Fathering in Low-Income Black Families: Studying Father-Figure Flows / Mansa Bilal, Mark A. King 147

8 Standing in the "GAP": The Kinship Care Role of the Invisible Black Grandfather / Aaron A. Smith 170

9 African American Men Rearing Children in Violent Neighborhoods / Bethany L. Letiecq 192

Part IV Young Fathers

10 Caring for the Family Child: Kin Networks of Young Low-Income African American Fathers / Kevin M. Roy, Colleen K. Vesely 215

11 Feuding Identities: To be African American, a Father, and a College Athlete / Jacqueline D. Smith 241

Part V Fathers Through Children's Eyes

12 Daughters' Constructions of Connectedness to Their Nonresident Fathers / Eunice Matthews-Armstead 261

13 Where's Your Daddy? African American Father Figures in Children's Storybooks / Suzanne Lamorey 279

Part VI Policies Affecting Black Fathers

14 Parenting on Parole or Probation: African American Fatherhood Under Community Supervision / Amy B. Smoyer, Kim M. Blankenship, Tracy Macintosh 299

15 Fostering Fatherhood: Understanding the Effects of Child-Support Policy on Low-Income, Noncustodial African American Fathers / Cheryl E.Mills 327

16 Fatherhood Responsibility and the Marriage-Promotion Policy: Going to the Chapel and We're Going to Get Married? / David J. Pate Jr. 351.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780231143523

0231143524

9780231143530

0231143532

9780231520867

0231520867

OCLC:

320798568