The Best Kept Secret studies the often-overlooked group of single, African American custodial fathers. While the media focuses on the increase of single mothers and the decline in marriage in the black community, Roberta Coles paints a nuanced picture of single black dads. Based on qualitative research, the author looks at the parenting experience of these fathers, who may have become single parents through nonmarital births, divorce, widowhood and adoption. The fathers, ranging in age from 20 to 76, discuss their ...
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The Best Kept Secret studies the often-overlooked group of single, African American custodial fathers. While the media focuses on the increase of single mothers and the decline in marriage in the black community, Roberta Coles paints a nuanced picture of single black dads. Based on qualitative research, the author looks at the parenting experience of these fathers, who may have become single parents through nonmarital births, divorce, widowhood and adoption. The fathers, ranging in age from 20 to 76, discuss their motivations for taking custody of their children, what roles they enact as parents, what they hope for their children, how they socialize their children in a diverse society, how parenting daughters differs from sons, and what parenting has done for them personally. Coles then recommends policy changes to improve the situations for children and single parents-particularly often-unseen fathers. Filled with dynamic interviews and intriguing case studies, The Best Kept Secret shows that single black custodial fathers do exist and looks at the ways raising children has shaped their lives.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Ex-library. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 169 p. Contains: Illustrations, black & white, Tables, black & white. Audience: General/trade. LCCN 2008037890 Type of material Book Personal name Coles, Roberta L. Main title The best kept secret: single black fathers / Roberta L. Coles. Published/Created Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2009. Description ix, 169 p.; 24 cm. ISBN 9780742564251 (cloth: alk. paper) 0742564258 (cloth: alk. paper) 9780742566125 (electronic) 0742566129 (electronic) LC classification HQ759.915. C65 2009 Contents Introducing a new concept: black single custodial fathers--Choosing to parent on their own--Being all things to all their children: parenting roles and behavioral goals--Fathering daughters and sons: the role of the child's gender--Negotiating racial identity and socialization--Is fathering good for fathers? --Single custodial fathers and institutional policies. LC Subjects African American single fathers. African American single fathers--Psychology. Child rearing--United States. Parenting--United States. African American families--Social conditions. Notes Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-157) and index. Dewey class no. 306.874/2208996073 Geographic area code n-us---Other system no. (OCoLC)248536842 (OCoLC)ocn248536842
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