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- Title
Continuity and Change in Middle Class Fatherhood, 1925-1939: The Culture-Conduct Connection.
- Authors
LaRossa, Ralph; Reitzes, Donald C.
- Abstract
The article examination on the culture and conduct of fatherhood during the Great Depression era in the United States. There are more women who advocate Androgynous Fatherhood than there are men who practice it. First, new fatherhood whether it is being promulgated in the 1930's or in the 1990's is likely to be embraced, if it is to be embraced at all, by the consumers of parenting culture. Right now, those consumers overwhelmingly are women. Second, and more importantly, reading a tract on new fatherhood is not likely to changeable's behavior if other, more immediate concerns, like employment, loom large in one's mind. Fathers who were out of work or concerned about theft work could have elevated their father involvement seeing theft children as islands in the storm, and there is anecdotal evidence from other studies to suggest that some fathers did, in fact, take this course. Most of the evidence, however, indicates that the depression reduced fatherchild contact.
- Subjects
UNITED States; SOCIAL conditions of women; FATHERHOOD; FAMILY life education; HOUSEHUSBANDS; PARENT-child relationships
- Publication
Journal of Marriage & Family, 1993, Vol 55, Issue 2, p455
- ISSN
0022-2445
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/352815