Young Disadvantaged Men as Fathers

Young Disadvantaged Men as Fathers.

This article reviews the existing literature on young disadvantaged fathers' involvement with children. It first outlines the predominant theoretical perspectives regarding father involvement among resident (married and cohabiting) biological fathers, resident social fathers (unrelated romantic partners of children's mothers), and nonresident biological fathers. Second, it presents a brief disc...

Young Disadvantaged Men : Reactions from the Perspective of Race

D promising reforms following the civil rights movement of the 1960s and continuing through the 1970s, the progress of black men since the early 1980s has been relatively stagnant. The black-white gaps in high school graduation, earnings, and unemployment have improved little over the past 30 years. On some indicators, black men are doing steadily worse: faced with poor employment prospects, le...

Why don't more young men in the UK become fathers?

OBJECTIVE This paper aims to show that, compared with young women, there is an apparent discrepancy in the reported sexual behaviour of young men and records of their fatherhood. DESIGN The data come from four studies of the sexual behaviour of young people in various parts of Britain between 1960 and 1990 and from statistics published by the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys. MAIN ...

Welcoming young fathers.

Theorizing alternative pathways through adulthood: unequal social arrangements in the lives of young disadvantaged men.

This chapter introduces the innovative field-based studies on disadvantaged men that are featured in this volume. Together, these studies of disadvantaged men from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds and both urban and nonurban settings complement and extend recent discussions of emerging adulthood, which typically conceptualizes the transition to adulthood as a normative and linear process. ...