Neglecting Fathers

Paper Summary:

This paper takes a look at the role and responsibilities of a father in the life of a child. According to the paper, the role of the father extends far beyond that of just financial support. The paper discusses how a neglecting father is one who fails to fulfill these basic responsibilities.

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"Rationalizing collection efforts at child support payments will certainly and significantly improve the overall well-being of children nationwide through an increase of provisions for foods, clothing, educational supplies and child care (Land 2000). But experts agree that visitation is far more important than child support in meeting the child's physical, emotional, mental, moral and social needs. Visitation is the contact point between the absent father and the child and it is only during visitations that the father is able to provide the guidance and nurturing the child needs for healthy development. The non-custodial father also benefits from visitations when his sense of emotional loss, anger, depression and role discontinuity are reduced. Far more importantly, the child adjusts to his parents' separation and finds a chance to continue growing and developing physically, emotionally, spiritually and mentally."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Bevan, Stephen. Christmas Father is Becoming a Myth. London: PRNewsWire, 2003. http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/cgi/news/release?id=114389
• Fleming, Joe. The Importance of Fathers in Building Stronger Families. Developing Practice: Association of Children's Welfare, Winter 2002. http://www.community.nsw.gov.au/documents/accab/papers/2S2C-2.pdf
• Land, Stephan. Child Support Means More Than Money: the Problem of Selective Enforcement. FindLaw Library, Aug 2000. http://library.findlaw.com/2000/Aug/1/127286.html
• LifeSiteNews. Fathers Overworked as ever Before, Mothers Neglecting Children. Interim Publishing, 2006. http://www.lifeite.net/ldn/2002/sep/02090506.html
• Pruett, Kyle. "Fulfilling Fatherneed." Fatherneed: Why Father Care is as Essential as Mother Care for Your Child. New York: Broadway Books, 2001. http://fcs.utah.edu/~herrin/fatherneed.ch9.rtf

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