The Best Kept Secret
Single Black Fathers
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 so…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-7425-6425-1
- EAN: 9780742564251
- Produktnummer: 4317523
- Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 180 S.
- Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.7 cm x D1.4 cm 436 g
- Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken mit Schutzumschlag
- Gewicht: 436
Über den Autor
Roberta L. Coles is associate professor of sociology at Marquette University.
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