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“In this wide-ranging, insightful, and kaleidoscopic journey across the increasingly diverse social landscape of American fatherhood, William Marsiglio and Kevin Roy breathe fresh air into a stale debate. They illumine men’s growing aspirations for close involvement in their children’s lives, even when they face economic disadvantage and physical separation. Nurturing Dads makes it abundantly clear that it is time to jettison narrow definitions of manhood and develop social policies that reach well beyond the limited model of fathers as only breadwinners.”
—KATHLEEN GERSON, professor of sociology and Collegiate Professor of Arts and Science, New York University
“In their ground-breaking new book, Nurturing Dads, William Marsiglio and Kevin Roy take a close and thoughtful look at the ‘new American father,’ that oft-discussed but seldom understood man. Marsiglio and Roy vividly and engagingly describe the goals, dilemmas, challenges, and rewards faced by contemporary fathers as they grapple with diverse, often contradictory, expectations in a rapidly changing cultural landscape. In the process, Marsiglio and Roy identify sensible, intriguing, and practical policies that could be embraced with equal fervour by both the progressive and conservative interest groups whose ideological disagreements have tended to thwart American policy for the last two decades. Perhaps this book will provide the long-awaited tipping point, moving the country from rhetoric to action!”
—MICHAEL E. LAMB, professor of social and developmental psychology, University of Cambridge, and editor-elect, Psychology, Public Policy, & Law
“Fatherhood policy tends to be a ‘one size fits all’ proposition, working off a deficit model, with most efforts designed to increase men’s participation in family life. William Marsiglio and Kevin Roy have cast the broadest and most extensive net ever, embracing the widest and most diverse set of fathers. By focusing as much on what fathers actually do, as what they don’t do, but should, they reframe the debates about men’s family participation, and set the terms for a renewed and revitalized set of policy initiatives.”
—MICHAEL KIMMEL, Distinguished Professor of Sociology, SUNY Stony Brook
“Nurturing Dads outlines some of the most pressing challenges facing fathers today. Written by two leading fathering scholars, it makes timely and important contributions to our understandings of the relationships between social policies and men’s caregiving. This beautifully written book is a must read for academics, policymakers, and community leaders interested in learning how to promote nurturing and engaged fatherhood.”
—ANDREA DOUCET, Canada Research Chair in Gender, Work, and Care and professor of sociology, Brock University