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- Title
RE-UNITING LOW-INCOME AFRICAN AMERICAN FATHERS WITH THEIR CHILDREN: A TRANSDISCIPLINARY MODEL TO ADDRESS THE LEGAL CONUNDRUMS EMBEDDED IN THE SOCIAL CHALLENGES.
- Authors
Mitchell, Jacquelyn; Lynch, Rufus Sylvester
- Abstract
Stimulated by national policy and funding, attention to the issue of fatherhood is increasing. Fatherhood programs often focus on constructions of "responsibility" that mandate absent fathers to emotionally and/or financially support their children. However, the multifaceted legal conundrums embedded in the social barriers to "responsible" fatherhood that are faced by fragile and marginalized non-custodial fathers are rarely comprehensively addressed. These forensic barriers extend beyond criminal justice system issues, to consumer, traffic, housing and other issues that plague fragile populations. This article advances a transdisciplinary fatherhood programming model that emerged from monitoring data during implementation of a "responsibility"-based design. The original design was expanded to more effectively address imbedded legally-related impediments to re-uniting non-custodial fathers with their children. Practice, policy, and programming implications are explored.
- Subjects
UNITED States; AFRICAN Americans; FATHERS; FATHERHOOD; CHILDREN; PARENT-child relationships; RIDDLES; ETHNIC groups; ETHNOLOGY; BLACK people
- Publication
Race, Gender & Class, 2007, Vol 14, Issue 1/2, p236
- ISSN
1082-8354
- Publication type
Article