All in
How Our Work-first Culture Fails Dads, Families, and Businesses--and How We Can Fix It Together
New York, NY : HarperOne, [2015]
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: viii, 261 pages ; 24 cm
The author shows how fatherhood today is far different than for previous generations and what that means for our individual lives, families, workplaces, and society.
Contents:
Part I: The parental leave battle. Paternity leave : a men's and women's right ; Follow the money ; Paid family leave : good for business ; How to cover family leave by lowering taxes ; The stigma that makes men give up billions ; In search of Neanderthals ; Male privilege, female gatekeeping, and the bonus temptation ; The new legal front line : FRD ; Rise up -- Part II: Beyond leave : fixing the struggle between work and life. Flexibility : how to reshape your work life ; How a bus could solve a parenting crisis ; In need of champions -- Part III: Fixing pop culture. The "doofus dad" obsession must end ; The man who's changing television ; Media and the fear of men -- Part IV: Fatherlessness. The truth about fatherlessness ; How black dads are doing best of all (but there's still a crisis) ; Confessions of an absentee dad turned NFL dad ; Dads in prison open up ; How military dads are staying connected ; Courts, custody, and "deadbeat parents" ; Widowers and motherlessness -- Part V: Sex. The truth about parents and sex ; Meet the sex wealthy -- Part VI: The all-in life. Body ; Mind ; Spirit ; The value of less ; Loving parenthood ; Let's do this.
Subjects:
Work and family -- United States.
Father and child -- United States.
Families -- United States.
Parental leave -- United States.
Work and family -- United States.
Father and child -- United States.
Families -- United States.
Parental leave -- United States.
ISBN:
9780062349613 (hardcover)
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
FAMILY Lev | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references and index.