Abstract: It is true that most single mothers are left with the baby; but there can be a fate worse than this: to be left without your baby and to be excluded from the intimacy of family life and the parenting of one s children. It might be said that some single fathers choose to exclude themselves from their children and from family life but, no more than single mothers or indeed any of us, they do not choose the circumstances in which those choices are made: the conditioning within their own family and community, the poverty of childhood, the experience of educational underachievement, the hopelessness of early school leaving and subsequent unemployment. Of course not all single fathers fit this stereotype but many do, and enough of them do to make us concerned about what is happening in disadvantaged communities where young men are not being supported to take up one of the most important archetypal roles which a man can take up — to be a father.
Publication Year: 2001
Publication Date: 2001-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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