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- Title
"BEING MAN ENOUGH": FATHERHOOD EXPERIENCES AND EXPECTATIONS AMONG TEENAGE BOYS IN SOUTH AFRICA.
- Authors
SPJELDNAES, INGRID O.; MOLAND, KAREN MARIE; HARRIS, JANET; SAM, DAVID L.
- Abstract
Through a socio-psychological lens, this study aimed at exploring how South African school-boys of low socio-economic status experienced interacting with men and fathers about the transition to manhood and how they visualised their own role as fathers in the future. These questions were explored against the backdrop of the socio-economic conditions for boys negotiating their way into manhood in economically disadvantaged contexts. A sequential triangulation of qualitative methods was employed. The findings indicated a huge discrepancy between their experiences of being fathered and future aspirations for "responsible fatherhood". Guiding children about personal issues into manhood was seen as the most important father-responsibility, yet the legal framework presented obstacles to initiate future responsible fathering.
- Subjects
SOUTH Africa; ADOLESCENCE; COMPUTER software; CONCEPTUAL structures; FATHERHOOD; FATHERS; FOCUS groups; INTERVIEWING; LONGITUDINAL method; MATHEMATICAL models; PHENOMENOLOGY; RESEARCH methodology; MEN; PARTICIPANT observation; RESEARCH evaluation; SOUND recordings; QUALITATIVE research; THEORY; DATA analysis; SOCIOECONOMIC factors
- Publication
Fathering: A Journal of Theory, Research & Practice about Men as Fathers, 2011, Vol 9, Issue 1, p3
- ISSN
1537-6680
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3149/fth.0901.3