Fathers and Families: Research and Reflection on Key Questions

McKeown, Kieran

doi:10.1037/e535862013-001

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“…There is a growing interest amongst policy makers in how fathers are adapting as a cultural group to their altering social and economic role in society and redefining their place in the family. [30][31][32] The WHO 1 recognises the importance of fathers becoming involved in all aspects of parenting and there is evidence that becoming a father can be beneficial to men's health and have a positive influence on men's lifestyles. 33,34 Though our interviews were conducted with fathers just six weeks after the birth of their child, it was evident that this experience had a positive effect on them, at least until this point of time.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Puts the magic back into life: Fathers’ experience of planned home birth

Sweeney

O’Connell

2015

Women and Birth

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Puts the magic back into life: Fathers’ experience of planned home birth

Sweeney

O’Connell

2015

Women and Birth

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“…The medium by which they were abused was via access to their children. In Ireland, this is more pointed by the exclusion of fathers from the text of the Constitution of Ireland, in contrast with mothers who are clearly specified (McKeown, 2001). The exclusion of fathers from their children's lives has been long recognized as a social problem in Ireland and one of the areas in which "gendered" practice continues (Featherstone et al, 2007).…”

Section: The Fatherhood Narrativementioning

confidence: 99%

“…These narratives, influenced via contemporary media, influence the portrayal of self in the public eye and as such define acceptable discourses of practice from which individuals interpret meaning and choose to perform (or not) (Plummer, 2003). The metanarrative of "excluded fathers" is a pertinent issue in contemporary social discourse (Featherstone et al, 2007;Ferguson & Hogan, 2004;McKeown, 2001). The presence of the fatherhood and good husband narrative threads above all others illustrated the biographical commitment the men had to these legitimate identities and represented "standpoints" (Holstein & Gubrium, 2000, p. 105) or "canonical stances" (Bruner, 2004, p. 694) from which the storying of masculinity in the ordinary sense could be best portrayed .…”

Section: The Good Husband Narrativementioning

confidence: 99%

Accounting for Intimate Partner Violence

Corbally

2014

J Interpers Violence

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Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a serious social issue which affects the medium- and long-term health outcomes of many individuals worldwide. The cost of IPV on the physical and psychological well-being of individuals, in addition to its wider economic costs in responding to abused persons, is significant. Presently, there is a lack of understanding about the nature of female-initiated IPV and how men account for their experiences of it. This study examined male victims' life stories of their IPV experiences from their intimate partners. Using the biographical narrative interpretive method, three cases were analyzed from a social constructionist perspective to examine what narrative strategies men used to account for their experiences of being abused by their female partners. Three dominant narrative strategies were used by respondents: the fatherhood narrative, the good husband narrative, and the abuse narrative. The abuse narrative had a unique narrative form, which reflected respondents' disassociation between their identities as men and also as abused persons. Dominant conflicting discourses of masculinity and intimate partner abuse disadvantaged men in identifying IPV and secondly in responding appropriately. This study found that men prefer to use dominant discursive identities as legitimate means from which to disclose IPV experiences. The findings from this study illustrate that broad questioning by professionals regarding fatherhood may be most helpful in promoting disclosures of IPV if this is suspected.

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“…Fathers' participation in the study was low however for those that did participate their well‐being improved significantly, but fathers' ratings of family outcomes and child and adolescent well‐being decreased. Fathers' engagement is a challenge as previous studies in family support in Ireland have identified low levels of participation of fathers, stating that of 46% of households that were engaged in the services, only 1 in 10 fathers were involved (McKeown, ). Children and young people's self‐reports on their well‐being and family outcomes improved, but this was not statistically significant.…”

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Protective support and supportive protection for families “in the middle”: Learning from the Irish context

McGregor

Devaney

2019

Child & Family Social Work

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This paper critically examines the relationship between statutory family support and child protection using the case study of Ireland. It builds on the work of Devaney and McGregor (2017) to offer an additional contribution to existing frameworks for practice through adapting the Hardiker Exton and Barker (1991) model of prevention. Using evidence from current Irish developments, the case for moving away from linear and simplistic differentiation of family support and child protection is made. Evidence from three main sources in Ireland is presented to develop the argument. This evidence includes the Child Care Law Reporting project (Coulter, 2015, 2018); a recent evaluation of a family support practice model called Meitheal (Rodriguez Cassidy and Devaney, 2018) and recent findings about public awareness of family support (McGregor and NicGabhainn, 2018). We argue that special attention should be paid to families “in the middle” who are in need of both support and protection and propose an adapted version of Hardiker et al. model to aid in this work. We identify what should happen at different levels for macrostructural to micropractice levels. We conclude that the learning from the Irish case study can be applied to an international context.

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Fathers and Families: Research and Reflection on Key Questions

Cited by 13 publications

References 52 publications

Puts the magic back into life: Fathers’ experience of planned home birth

Puts the magic back into life: Fathers’ experience of planned home birth

Accounting for Intimate Partner Violence

Protective support and supportive protection for families “in the middle”: Learning from the Irish context

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