A psychologist interested in studying the phenomenon of emerging roles in fathers, Dr. Levant spoke to Lon Woodbury on a one hour radio show on L.A. Talk Radio about struggling adolescents. The topic of the discussion was "Just what does it mean to be a father?"
The host of the radio show, Lon Woodbury, is the publisher of Woodbury Reports, Inc., founder of Struggling Teens, and a prolific author. Lon has worked with families and struggling teens since 1984 as an educational consultant.
About Dr. Ronald Levant
Dr. Ronald Levant earned his doctorate in Clinical Psychology and Public Practice from Harvard University. He is the Professor of Psychology at the University of Akron and Editor of the Psychology of Men and Masculinity,
Exactly what Does It Mean To Be A Dad
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.
Nevertheless, despite this bias against men who wanted to be more available to meet their children's needs, the gap between mothers and fathers was dwindling noticeably, and in many families both parents were willing to carry babies, console preschoolers, and take their kids to team sport practices or other appointments.
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.
Divorce resulted in all sorts of complications"from absent fathers to visitation fathers. Sometimes, too, fathers were given custody when the mother was considered incompetent by the court. Adding to this emotional confusion for children was the whole concept of blended families, stay-at-home fathers, and gay dads.
The host of the radio show, Lon Woodbury, is the publisher of Woodbury Reports, Inc., founder of Struggling Teens, and a prolific author. Lon has worked with families and struggling teens since 1984 as an educational consultant.
About Dr. Ronald Levant
Dr. Ronald Levant earned his doctorate in Clinical Psychology and Public Practice from Harvard University. He is the Professor of Psychology at the University of Akron and Editor of the Psychology of Men and Masculinity,
Exactly what Does It Mean To Be A Dad
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.
Nevertheless, despite this bias against men who wanted to be more available to meet their children's needs, the gap between mothers and fathers was dwindling noticeably, and in many families both parents were willing to carry babies, console preschoolers, and take their kids to team sport practices or other appointments.
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.
Divorce resulted in all sorts of complications"from absent fathers to visitation fathers. Sometimes, too, fathers were given custody when the mother was considered incompetent by the court. Adding to this emotional confusion for children was the whole concept of blended families, stay-at-home fathers, and gay dads.
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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