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IN SEARCH OF FATHERHOOD(R) -- TRANSCENDING BOUNDARIES is a "straight no-chaser" exploration of the issues and questions that Married Fathers, Single Fathers, "Stay-At-Home" Fathers, "Long-Distance" Fathers, Divorced Fathers, Custodial Fathers and Non-Custodial Fathers throughout our global village struggle to resolve on a day-to-day basis. Through essays and interviews, Stephen Baskerville, Ph.D., Muhammed Nasser Bey, Randy L. Collins, Leonard Dantzler, Warren Farrell, Ph.D., Dale Fraza, Thomas R. Golden, LCSW, the late L.T. Henry, Thomas Hoerner, Gary A. Johnson, James Kennedy, Thomas Lessman, Alvin F. Poussaint, M.D., Martin G. Ramey, Almas Jamil Sami' and Joep Zander speak from the depths of their souls about the roles and responsibilities of Fathers and the universal search for answers that Men who are Fathers from all Walks of Life have embarked upon. They suggest to us what our young men need as they make the journey from childhood to manhood.
IN SEARCH OF FATHERHOOD(R) -- TRANSCENDING BOUNDARIES also identifies organizations that provide Men and Fathers in Australia, Canada, France, the United Kingdom and the United States with resources and support services. IN SEARCH OF FATHERHOOD(R) -- TRANSCENDING BOUNDARIES also contains a "Recommended Reading" section that identifies books that explore a myriad of issues directly and indirectly related to Fatherhood.
- Sales Rank: #8063474 in Books
- Published on: 2004-03
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: .46" h x 5.60" w x 8.60" l, .54 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 184 pages
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IN SEARCH OF FATHERHOOD(R) -- TRANSCENDING BOUNDARIES is a long overdue look at fatherhood issues. -- Hayward Farrar, Ph.D., 7 June 2004
Thanks Diane for sharing the essence and the dignity of Fatherhood through IN SEARCH OF FATHERHOOD(R) -- TRANSCENDING BOUNDARIES. -- Charles G. Spellman, ED.D., 20 June 2
From the Author
IN SEARCH OF FATHERHOOD(R) -- TRANSCENDING BOUNDARIES is a reaffirmation of Fatherhood. It is also the reaffirmation of a vision of a Forum For Fathers that was conceived by my mentor -- the late L.T. Henry, an author, classically trained jazz musician, photojournalist and sales and motivation trainer. It was Mr. Henry's belief that Men and Fathers were engaged in a silent and never-ending search for answers about raising children, moving their families forward and the significance of their roles in our families ... in our communities ... and in our world. Mr. Henry died before he could transform his vision into a reality -- a vision that I have resurrected through IN SEARCH OF FATHERHOOD(R) -- TRANSCENDING BOUNDARIES. It was the least that I could do for a Man who had done so much for me.
About the Author
Diane A. Sears is the Managing Editor of a quarterly international male parenting journal -- IN SEARCH OF FATHERHOOD(R) Forum For and About the Fathers of the World and a member of the University Council for Akamai University in connection with its Fatherhood and Men's Studies program. Ms. Sears has published interviews of more than 100 Men who are Fathers. She has authored and published reviews of numerous books which explore Fatherhood and men's rights issues, including "Father And Child Reunion" by Warren Farrell, Ph.D.; "Swallowed By A Snake: The Gift Of The Masculine Side Of Healing," by Thomas R. Golden, LCSW; and "The Ultimate Survival Guide for the Single Father" by Thomas Hoerner. Sears is featured in the 2003-2004 National Register's Who's Who In Professionals and Executives and is a member of the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce.
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Superb, Inspiring Collection
By J. Steven Svoboda
BSI International, still a relatively new player in pro-male publishing, has been putting out its IN SEARCH OF FATHERHOOD® Forum For and About the Fathers of the World for well over half a decade. Now BSI has released this fascinating and wide-ranging volume collecting 17 pieces by 16 contributors, all focused in one way or other on the ever-important issue of fatherhood. I personally read it cover to cover on a recent plane flight.
BSI's publications--both its journal and this book--have a unique flavor. For one thing, substantial representation is given to men of color. Its authors vary in literary skill though everything it publishes is engaging and easy to follow. Some of its articles tend to have a somewhat politically reactionary flavor though despite my own personal largely progressive background, I don't view this as a negative factor. At the same time, BSI's style is very male in its sensibility: stories are put out there as the authors see them, with no apologies and no punches pulled. Many of BSI's writers do not shy from throwing in personal anecdotes proving a point or demonstrating how tough lessons were learned.
As much of a fan as I am of BSI's journal, "In Search of Fatherhood: Transcending Boundaries" easily outdoes them. We know we are on to something very, very special right from the very first piece, Stephen Baskerville's absolutely magisterial masterpiece entitled, "Father's Rights are Father's Duties." Baskerville writes that "[t]he very act of separation and divorce, aside from any accompanying behavior or words, itself sends a myriad of terrible messages to children." But, the writer notes, "perhaps, a worse effect is to destroy parental authority... How can parents instill lessons of selflessness in children when their own actions demonstrate precisely the opposite?"
Noting the extreme harm caused by domestic litigation, in which "we declare civil war on our loved ones," Baskerville observes that a father who participates in legal proceedings related to separation and divorce "is participating in the destruction of his own authority" and his own fatherhood. The author persuasively contends that political involvement on behalf of dads "may be the best thing you can do for your own case and for your own children" and lists no fewer than seven "direct and immediate benefits of political action." In a breathtaking conclusion, Baskerville invokes and then fully justifies an analogy of current treatment of fathers with the slave system. Then, having proven his point, he goes on to draw useful analogies from the struggle to end this historic horror. The writer reminds us that "the decisive argument against slavery was not so much its physical cruelty as the corruption it wrought in the political system and in the minds and souls of what should have been free citizens. It fostered tyranny in the slaveholder, servility in the slaves, and moral degradation in both."
Editor Diane A. Sears wisely follows by jumping the reader into about as different a piece as you could possibly imagine, a personal, heartfelt revelation of the joys and challenges of being a Dad from African-American journalist Muhammad Nasser Bey. Disability rights activist Randy L. Collins, who lost his only son in 2002 from the same genetic condition he himself has, contributes excerpts from lessons he himself has learned. "I've learned from my father," Collins writes, "that a mistake is only a lesson in disguise." Later he notes, "A father is a man who has delayed his own personal gratification to meet the needs of a child and who displays his character through his sacrifice." The author concludes an excellent long paragraph on men's health with the observation that, "By becoming an active participant in the management of our lives, we will feel so empowered that it will be a great privilege to pass it on to our children."
As much as we may have read of Dr. Warren Farrell's writings, the man never ceases to find a new turn of phrase or a previously undiscovered fact with which to delight, disturb, and amaze us. His article here, "Santee, Columbine... Why Boys Are the Way They Are" shows him absolutely at the top of his form.
Warren fingers the "Vietnamization of our sons" that is simultaneously "rewarding them for playing the old role and condemning them for having the mentality the old roles breed." On the ever-pressing issue of those who take their own lives, Warren writes, "Suicide is decreasing for our daughters as we increase our daughters' ways of succeeding; it is increasing for our sons as we increase our sons' ways of failing."
Warren crystallizes what might be called the triple jeopardy of young males and expectations that they will initiate sexual contact: "If they do it too slowly, they are still called a wimp, but now, if they do it too awkwardly, they are sued for sexual harassment, and if they do it too quickly, they are a date rapist." One major problem is the relative invisibility of the male plight: "Boys' experience of depression and low self-esteem is hidden in the cracks. By calling it aggression or delinquency or drinking or drugs, we skip past the depression until we stand before his coffin." Through pure force of personality if nothing else, though, the dean of men's issues authors retains his optimistic vision in the conclusion to his piece: "For the past third of a century, we have introduced our daughters to a multi-option world; now it is time to introduce our sons."
Therapist and men's author Thomas R. Golden relates a wonderful story of connecting with his father through the preparations for his funeral in which he was joined by his buddies. At the same time, he cautions of men's precarious state in our current culture due to the subcontracting of almost all action activities related to death (and related to just about everything else, I might add). I am still haunted by Golden's tale of Abraham Lincoln inviting a male friend to the White House to play "sad songs" and thereby open the doors to his tears and grief. The writer reminds us that "[w]e need more culturally endorsed `active' rituals that give us `hooks' into our grief."
While contributions such as those by Dale Fraza, Thomas Hoerner, James Kennedy, Alvin F. Poussaint, M.D., and Everyman's Martin G. Ramey are not as tightly paced and are generally less instructive on the literal level, they provide their own complementary contribution to this impressively varied book. One particular value of the relatively high representation of black men is a subtle change in the book's consciousness as well as the subtle yet powerful presence of more faith between the lines.
Gary Johnson changed his career so he could spend more time with his children, and hearing his story is an inspiring experience. Right or wrong, Ramey is provocative in some of his positions (as one example, he favors corporal punishment) and far-reaching in the breadth of the topics he addresses. Ramey writes of the "legacy packets" he prepares and send to each of his children including his columns, letters and other material to give them a record of who he is and what he stands for.
Almas Jamil Sami' motivates empathy and learning with his admirably genuine description of problems he has confronted and overcome as a man and as a father. Joep Zander closes out this singular volume with an inspiring tale of the concrete results achieved in his European activism on behalf of men's rights.
All in all, page for page, you simply can't do better than to pick up this superb collection.
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