Where's Daddy?: The Mythologies Behind Custody-Access-Support Hardcover - 2000

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Fatherhood promises to be the next social revolution. Where's Daddy? is at the forefront of the Men's Movement, expressing what is driving it and its goals.This is not a How-To book on divorce, but a Why book. It examines the basis for our practice of sole custody and what makes many think 'parentectomy' is in a child's interests. It asserts that feminism and political correctness are just today's symptoms of a society too long steeped in notions of single authorities, scapegoats, and bullying. Where's Daddy? takes us to the roots of these - like the "survival of the fittest" mentality, sameness for equality, and dominance as a solution to conflict - and along the way offers a revolutionary, science-based definition of social equality based on the need for differences. He offers a team-based model for family that works whether parents are married or not.This is a stunningly insightful book about our whole culture and its practices which lifts the veil from our divorce customs and the assumptions that drive them.Where's Daddy? is critically essential reading for all parents contemplating or involved in a divorce, counselors and social workers dealing with the children of divorced parents, judicial and policy making authorities crafting and adjudicating divorce and child custody proceedings.--The BookwatchWhere's Daddy? leads the way, not just for the next wave of social reform, but for any movement anxious to restore sanity, humanity, and balance to the family and society. The author asserts that any movement to restore a nurturing father must start with correctly identifying its barriers and issues. It ends with his increasingly famous context definition model for co-parenting.