The author chronicles his search for his father by hiring a detective and reveals his own life as he follows the investigator from one dead end to the next in the search for the long-missing man

Product Description: The father factor is the conscious understanding, awareness, and appreciation of the critical influence that your father had, still has, or could have in your career development and future potential. Noting that the father-son or father-daughter relationship is one of the least understood relationships in adult life, Dr...read more

Product Description: When men act as parents they do so in diverse physical and social spaces imbued with symbolic meaning. They father in the military overseas, on the farm, in dilapidated inner cities, immersed in ethnic neighborhoods, navigating idealized places of leisure where families go, as stepfathers in spaces where physical dimensions and family meanings intersect, as nonresident fathers managing less than ideal conditions, rolling across the interstate as long-haul truckers, playing catch alongside the house, managing precious family-time in prison work-release programs, as participants in community fatherhood initiatives, etc...read more

Over the last twenty years it has become recognized that fathers play a crucial role in child development and subsequent adult status and behaviour. This book presents the state-of-the-art on fathering and its determinants. Based on original research into the effects that different styles of fathering can have on children, it explores the long and short terms outcomes of involved fathering on different domains of children?s lives, including academic achievement, mental health, socio-economic status, adolescent relationships and delinquency.

Involved Fathering and Men's Adult Development is an interdisciplinary book that synthesizes theoretical, empirical, and anecdotal writings from different fields and provides an analysis of extensive interviews with 40 fathers. Along with the exploration of the distinct contribution that fathers make to their children's development, the author pursues the parallel theme of the effect this involvement has on the fathers' own development in adulthood. This book will provide its readers with a realistic and useful beginning point to bring a synthesis of developmental theories, family studies perspectives, and men's insights about fathering that will enhance our academic understanding of fathering and adult development. This book can also spark reflective and practical application for fathers and families, whether readers are academicians, practitioners, policymakers, or fathers in the trenches.

Based on interviews with more than two hundred fathers, an approach to parenting from a father's perspective offers advice to new fathers as well as those with older children, covering such topics as staying involved after divorce, managing a career and family life, and strengthening father-child relationships. Reprint. (view table of contents)

It is widely acknowledged that children need structure, security, stability and attachment to develop and flourish, and that the father is an important part of this. Issues such as high divorce rates, new family structures, increased mobility, women's liberation and contraception are very common in society. This book sets out to explore what has happened to men and to fathers during all these changes and transitions. Judith Trowell and Alicia Etchegoyen, along with an array of renowned contributors, consider the importance of fathers in various situations, including: the role of the father at different stage of children's development the missing father loss of a father grandfathers. It is argued that the father is important, not only to support the main carer (usually the mother) but also to provide a caring, thinking, comfortable, confident presence.

Product Description: Luigi Zoja views the origin and evolution of the father from a Jungian perspective. He argues that the father's role in bringing up children is a social construction that has been subject to change throughout history - and looks at the consequences of this, along with the crisis facing fatherhood today...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Distills the author's personal experiences, revelations, and transcendent moments into fifteen essential truths about fatherhood, trust, play, and friendship.

Natures 'ten best dads'--including wolves, beavers, penguins, seahorses, and marmosets--are celebrated in this unique exploration of the meaning of fatherhood in both the human and animal worlds. 125,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

A Father for All Seasons celebrates the wonder of the father/son relationship and shows how everything in life changes when the two connect.

Product Description: In this courageous collaboration the Jampolskys explore their own history in a series of personal letters to each other. Their correspondence reveals the deeply-felt bonds, anxieties, self-doubts, and wounds that are part of every man's life...read more

Profiles nine types of disconnected fathers, presents two recovery programs that consider offspring healing with or without a father's involvement, and presents hundreds of case studies that describe the healing processes of others.

Product Description: Description "Give this book to fathers you know. It leads us from the world 'made' and 'given,' the world of false fatherhood, to the world 'created' as the true father's challenge for a passion for life." –Dirk Evers, Ph.D., Training Analyst,, C...read more

Encouraging fathers in their attempts to build relationships with their children, a collection of stories shares important lessons, offers practical and creative ideas, and focuses on overcoming obstacles such as travel, divorce, and long work hours. Original. 40,000 first printing. Tour. IP.

Product Description: The author, a researcher and writer on the subject of masculinity, explores the male condition from infancy to manhood, exposing its complexity and fragility in the face of conflicting familial, social and sexual impulses. The author's psychoanalytic focus is derived from his clinical experience, but his interdisciplinary background leads him to draw on mythology, anthropology, sociology, history and literature in formulating and illustrating his ideas about male identity and development...read more