Contemporary Fathering: Theory, Policy and Practice

by Brid Featherstone

Book Overview

Since 1997, child welfare services have been faced with new demands to engage fathers or develop father-inclusive services. This book emerges from work by the author as a researcher and educator over many years on the issues posed by this agenda for child welfare practitioners in a variety of contexts. In locating fathers, fathering and fatherhood within a historical and social landscape, the book addresses issues seldom taken up in practice settings...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1861349874
• ISBN13: 9781861349873
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Policy Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 9.1"