Good Dad's Bad Dads Analysis

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In this week’s reading of “Good dad’s-bad dads” (Furstenburg 1988) and Diverging Destinies (McLanahan 2004) the authors covered the different roles that being a father may entail and their effect on the post-modern American family. Both a so-called good father and a so-called bad father were demonstrated. The “bad” father practiced more detachment and less involvement in their children’s lives, resulting in them becoming an outside disciplinarian that the mother could only lean on to instruct her children in hard times. The “good” father practiced the opposite by taking on the role of the mother.

One of the main focus’ from “Good dad’s bad dads” was time. If we dated each of the represented fathers it would ultimately frame the 1950’s dad to represent the bad fathers and the post-modern day dad to represent the good. "No longer confined to their traditional task of being the good provider, men have broken the mold. The new father is androgynous; he is a full partner in parenthood.” (Furstenberg 1998:193) Because of changing social norms many fathers are now taking on new roles that were not even imaginable to the previous generation. Some of them being single parenthood, filling the position of a stay at home dad or laying down their professional and financial careers to safe keep their child. …show more content…

Overall an in home father is more likely to bond with their child than an out of home

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