Summary:
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 roles will fathers play in future families?
Fatherhood Reclaimed 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. Drawing on diaries (ancient and modern) as well
as on wide-ranging research and interview with fathers from all social
groups, Fatherhood Reclaimed gives voice to what it has meant, and means
now, to be a father.
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