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OverviewWe've all heard that a father's involvement enriches the lives of children. But how much have we heard about how having a child affects a father's life? As Peter Gray and Kermyt Anderson reveal, fatherhood actually alters a man's sexuality, rewires his brain, and changes his hormonal profile. His very health may suffer-in the short run-and improve in the long. These are just a few aspects of the scientific side of fatherhood explored in this book, which deciphers the findings of myriad studies and makes them accessible to the interested general reader. Since the mid-1990s Anderson and Gray, themselves fathers of young children, have been studying paternal behavior in places as diverse as Boston, Albuquerque, Cape Town, Kenya, and Jamaica. Their work combines the insights of evolutionary and comparative biology, cross-cultural analysis, and neural physiology to deepen and expand our understanding of fatherhood-from the intense involvement in childcare seen in male hunter-gatherers, to the prodigality of a Genghis Khan leaving millions of descendants, to the anonymous sperm donor in a fertility clinic. Looking at every kind of fatherhood-being a father in and out of marriage, fathering from a distance, stepfathering, and parenting by gay males-this book presents a uniquely detailed picture of how being a parent fits with men's broader social and work lives, how fatherhood evolved, and how it differs across cultures and through time. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Peter B. Gray , Kermyt G. AndersonPublisher: Harvard University Press Imprint: Harvard University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.666kg ISBN: 9780674064188ISBN 10: 0674064186 Pages: 320 Publication Date: 02 April 2012 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of Contents* Preface * Introduction * Our Founding Fathers * A World of Diversity: Cross-Cultural Variation in Paternal Care * Men and Marriage * Fathers and Fertility * Who's the Dad? * Father Involvement, Father Absence, and Children's Outcomes * The Makings of a Stepfather * Having It All? Fatherhood, Male Social Relationships, and Work * The Descent of Dad's Sexuality * Babies on His Brain * Health and the Human Father * Rewriting the Manual * Appendix * References * Acknowledgments * IndexReviews[ Fatherhood ] is helping fill the research gap about fathers. It describes, based on masses of scientific evidence, the so-called Dad Effect. Or, how fatherhood changes men.--Douglas Todd Vancouver Sun (06/18/2011) Author InformationPeter B. Gray is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Kermyt G. Anderson is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Oklahoma. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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