Summary of Father and Child Reunion
What is Father and Child Reunion About?
Highlights of Findings from Dr. Warren Farrell’s Father and Child Reunion
By Warren Farrell, Ph.D. ( www.warrenfarrell.com )
For more depth, see In The Best Interests of the Child and Father And Child Reunion
The Family Arrangements that Work Best for Children
Father and Child Reunion (2001) is a meta-analysis of hundreds of studies from the U.S. and other countries. Many of the studies look at what leads to children doing the best and worse after divorce. The documentation for these findings is in Father and Child Reunion.
Who Recommends this Book?
The Following Organizations Recommend Dr. Warren Farrell as an Expert Witness on Child Custody Issues and Mothers’ and Fathers’ Rights to Shared Parenting
Excerpts from Father and Child Reunion
Introduction
- The challenge of this book:
- to deepen our understanding of what’s missing when dad’s missing and bring dad home again.
- to confront the gap between our conscious desire for father involvement and the unconscious ways we undermine that involvement. 7
- Ideas
- I reframe the dialogue so it is not stuck in one ideology or another; so that everyone is included, and theories in conflict are out in the open. 9
- The last quarter of the century was marked by women’s struggle for equal opportunity in the workplace; the first quarter of the twenty-first century will be marked by men’s struggle for equal opportunity in the homeplace. 4
- We’ve gone from the Era of Father Knows Best to the Era of Daddy Molests. 8
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- The Quietest Revolution
- PART I. WHAT’S MISSING WHEN DAD’S MISSING?
- Chapter 1. Why Dad is Crucial
- Chapter 2. Is there a Mothering Instinct?...A Fathering Instinct?...And What Does it all Mean for our Kids?
- Chapter 3. Are Dads More Likely to Abuse?
- Chapter 4. What Prevents Dads From Being Involved?
- Chapter 5. Toward the Best Interests of Everyone....
- PART II. THE POLITICS OF BRINGING DAD HOME AGAIN
- Chapter 6. Men’s ABC Rights
- Chapter 7. Does Divorce Make Women Poorer And Men Richer?
- Chapter 8. Is Child Support Helping or Hurting the Family?
- Chapter 9. “Visitation” is for Criminals
- Chapter 10. Playing the “Abuse” Card
- Chapter 11. The Political Consequences Of Ignoring Fathers
- Chapter 12. Conclusion: Toward a Father and Child Reunion
- Appendix. What a Man Needs to Do If Divorce Cannot Be Avoided