Ronald Levant, Ph.D., Editor of the Psychology of Men and Masculinity, talked to Lon Woodbury, from Parent Choices for Struggling Teens" on L.A. Talk Radio, about how to answer the question: What does it mean to be a father?"
The radio show host is the founder of a business dedicated to helping struggling teens, and a prolific author on alternative schooling. Since 1984, he has worked with family members and struggling adolescents, and today he is an educational consultant.
About Dr. Levant
The guest teaches psychology at the university level and he earned his doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Harvard.
Shifting Perspectives on Fathers
Today, Dads are familiar with readying children for school in the early morning and making supper for them when they come home in the evenings. Over the years, fatherhood has transformed considerably, and now the roles of couple are more or less interchangeable and Dr. Levant recalled an extremely memorable course that he had actually offered in the 1980s on the changing role of fatherhood that helped initiate a more expansive view of fathering.
Still, these radical changes are only taking place in American subcultures rather than as a collective shift in attitude. "Businesses in America are slow to recognize that fathers need parenting time," claimed Dr. Levant and he also believed that forward thinking men who wanted to play a larger role in their children's lives were still frequently not respected much by mainstream culture, which often portrayed fathers in sitcoms and advertising as bumbling fools when it came to parenting.
In several families both parents wanted to carry the children, console young children, and take their children to group sporting events or various other practice sessions. So, in spite of a bias against men who intended to be much more involved in meeting their youngster's emotional needs, the difference between mothers and fathers was dwindling noticeably, and
All children parents to be there for them as they matured, and the absence of fathers, or even mothers, created psychological damage. Sadly, after a divorce, about fifty percent of father's lost touch with their children. Since one half of marriages statistically ended up in divorce, this level of trauma was quite pervasive throughout American culture.
From absent dads to visitation dads, separation led to all sorts of issues. Occasionally, too, fathers were offered custody when the mother was considered incompetent by the court. Contributing to this psychological complication for children was the entire concept of combined families, stay-at-home fathers, and gay parents.
The radio show host is the founder of a business dedicated to helping struggling teens, and a prolific author on alternative schooling. Since 1984, he has worked with family members and struggling adolescents, and today he is an educational consultant.
About Dr. Levant
The guest teaches psychology at the university level and he earned his doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Harvard.
Shifting Perspectives on Fathers
Today, Dads are familiar with readying children for school in the early morning and making supper for them when they come home in the evenings. Over the years, fatherhood has transformed considerably, and now the roles of couple are more or less interchangeable and Dr. Levant recalled an extremely memorable course that he had actually offered in the 1980s on the changing role of fatherhood that helped initiate a more expansive view of fathering.
Still, these radical changes are only taking place in American subcultures rather than as a collective shift in attitude. "Businesses in America are slow to recognize that fathers need parenting time," claimed Dr. Levant and he also believed that forward thinking men who wanted to play a larger role in their children's lives were still frequently not respected much by mainstream culture, which often portrayed fathers in sitcoms and advertising as bumbling fools when it came to parenting.
In several families both parents wanted to carry the children, console young children, and take their children to group sporting events or various other practice sessions. So, in spite of a bias against men who intended to be much more involved in meeting their youngster's emotional needs, the difference between mothers and fathers was dwindling noticeably, and
All children parents to be there for them as they matured, and the absence of fathers, or even mothers, created psychological damage. Sadly, after a divorce, about fifty percent of father's lost touch with their children. Since one half of marriages statistically ended up in divorce, this level of trauma was quite pervasive throughout American culture.
From absent dads to visitation dads, separation led to all sorts of issues. Occasionally, too, fathers were offered custody when the mother was considered incompetent by the court. Contributing to this psychological complication for children was the entire concept of combined families, stay-at-home fathers, and gay parents.
About the Author:
Lon Woodbury, the founder of Struggling Teens, has recorded the entire interview on his weekly L.A. Talk Radio show for people to at their convenience.
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