Defiant dads
Subtitle: fathers' rights activists in America
By: Jocelyn Elise Crowley.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780801446900
Subjects: Fathers -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States; Divorced fathers -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States; Custody of children -- United States; Child support -- Law and legislation -- United States; Self-help groups -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Coming revolution in fathers' rights?; title: The origins of fathers' rights groups in the United States; title: Membership dynamics in fathers' rights groups; title: Becoming the chief : patterns of leadership and governance in fathers' rights groups; title: Money changes everything, or, American child support policy; title: The custody wars; title: Frayed ties : fathers' relationships with mothers; title: The ties that bind : fathers' relationships with their children; title: "Crooked trees," activism, and healing in dissolved families.