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Foster Fatherhood: The Untapped Resource.
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The authors defined and explained foster care as it relates to the foster father and his special problems, attempting to differentiate foster fatherhood from ordinary fatherhood, and to suggest important qualities of the interaction between foster fathers and their professional casework supervisors.Abstract:
Research on family roles has long neglected the father, and foster care has similarly focused on the foster mother. This paper defines and explains foster care as it relates to the foster father and his special problems, attempting to differentiate foster fatherhood from ordinary fatherhood, and to suggest important qualities of the interaction between foster fathers and their professional casework supervisors. Certain data indicate that despite the unfavorable setting, foster fathers often do take the initiative to achieve a meaningful place in the fostering situation, and they do help socialize the foster boys. Practical implications are touched upon at the conclusion.read more
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TL;DR: In this article, an analysis of 33 semi-structured interviews with foster families in Flanders explores the tensions between voluntaristic and professionalising tendencies in foster care, concluding that foster parents oscillate between the position of professional and volunteer, as becomes clear in discussions on how the foster child should name its foster parents, as well as in how foster parents conceptualise the past of the foster children, metaphorically conceptualized as its backpack.
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Foster Fathers and Carework: Engaging Alternate Models of Parenting
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Foster children and the foster care system, Part I: History and legal structure.
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Human Behavior: An Inventory of Scientific Findings
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The Role of the Father in the Family
TL;DR: The role of the father in the family has been studied extensively in the literature, see as mentioned in this paper for an overview. But the focus of this paper is on the role of fathers in education.