What About Fathers Documentary Summary

Decent Essays
Wednesday, September 27, 2017 at 3:24PM, the viewing of the documentary entitled, “What about Fathers? A Child welfare Documentary: was very informative and motivating for those that are taking upon the role as a father or plan on being in the role as a father, in the future. This video was found very interesting and informative because it entails in details the importance of a father in their child’s life. Like never before, it is very essential that the child’s father is playing his role in the child’s life because the love, guidance, and support a father can have on his child / children is like no other. Parental involvement, which is relating to a father in a child’s life, is likely to help a child become successful, perform well, and become

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    The influence of two fathers: Charles Bragg vs. Westley Moore (contrast) Fathers are an important part of their sons' healthy emotional, physical, and mental growth from their first moments of life. Boys whose fathers love them and demonstrate that love in consistent, caring ways have fewer issues later in life with peers, (related to school and learning), and irresponsible, illegal behavior (htt). Charles Bragg and Westley Moore were major influences in their son’s lives because of their lack of presence, how they treated their mothers, and their affect as positive or negative role models for their sons. Though on the surface it may seem that Charles Bragg and Westley Moore had a lack of presence in their son’s lives; the difference was…

    • 442 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The controversy of if a relationship with fathers growing up is important has been a argumentative topic for a while. Some believe that a relationship is essential while others disagree. Authors Sarah Vowell in “Shooting Dad” and Brad Manning in “Arm Wrestling with My Father” think that this relationship is important. Even though they both think their fathers are important they describe their views about them differently as they go throughout their childhoods, adolescence and young adulthoods. In her childhood, Vowel sees her father as a “god like figure” but not in the way one would think.…

    • 859 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    In this allotted section of my integrative seminar assignment, I will be explaining what CARS has done in the past and describe what is presently being done to engage dads with the services needed – either in house support or via external referrals, how to meet the needs of individual fathers, groups, related agencies, and community service linkages throughout Dallas County in order to establish the desirable social planning, economic/program development to excel progressive change and sustainability within the community for father involvement. In addition, I will be pointing the necessary skills to capture the attention of the participating dads either from what I have seen during my field practicum and from what I think would be beneficial…

    • 315 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    How important a role does a father play in a child’s life? A father plays the most important role in a child’s life. A father is an equal partner in care giving and his presence and effort plays a very important role in his daughter’s life. But some people are not ready to accept this huge responsibility and shy away from it. One of those people is Sam who neglected his daughter also named Sam and physically and mentally abused her.…

    • 1394 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    In "Fathering in America: What's a Dad Supposed to Do?," Marie Hartwell-Walker observes that no matter the kind of family situation children are in, fathers are a critical part of their child's lives. Walker displays the majority of how men can father their children, but there is so much more to the important role of being their father in the child's lives. Many have heard that having a strong male influence is important in a young boy's life, but it's equally important for a daughter to have one as well. Throughout the essay, Walker repeatedly notes that more fathers are absent for all or significant periods of time of their child's life. This can either be because the fathers are unable to provide for them financially, are prohibited from seeing them, or because their father's relationship with their mother didn’t go well.…

    • 810 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    (I’m just kidding) There are countless studies that have been done on the effect of paternal interaction with a child. In one study 22,300 datasets were reviewed and what was discovered was that regular father engagement with a child most likely produces a positive outcome for that child (Sarkadi, Kristiansson, Oberklaid, & Bremberg, 2008). So by allowing fathers to have more time with their children we can predict that those children will be better behaved and more accomplished than those who don’t. Mothers are also in need of support.…

    • 831 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Children Parents Influence

    • 1359 Words
    • 6 Pages

    Rhoads, he explains his point of view about fathers. In the article Rhoads explains that there are many stay at home fathers that do not get recognized the way that mom’s do, on Mothers Day. When the children are young, they are attracted to, “the mothers estrogen and oxytocin… (2012, 308).” So, why is dad important within this relationship? The relationship between father and child is important because dad teaches them when they are old enough, “how to build and fix things and how to play sports” (for their sons) and for their daughters they provide a, “model of love and fidelity for their wives also they give them confidence within their teenage years (2012, 309).”…

    • 1359 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The article, “When Dad Stays Home Too: Paternity Leave, Gender, and Parenting” written by Erin M. Rehel, was published on September 26, 2013. I selected this article, because I wanted to understand how a father’s presence would affect a child’s development during the infancy stage. In addition, I wanted to be more informed about the benefits that are associated with paternity leave. At the Introduction of the article, Rehel wanted to determine if “men develop understandings and enactments of parenting that mirror those of women when they, too, exit the workforce temporarily in the immediate post-birth period.…

    • 740 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Fathers are becoming less and less present in today’s society, but children that grow up with their father around benefit in many ways and as seen in the story “A Good Man is Hard to Find” those who may…

    • 1635 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Many people believe that men should pay child support, let’s not get it twisted, a man should support his children, however, there needs to be different set of guidelines for child support and custody order, that is implemented before making a final decision. Some women feel because they bearded the child that they can do what they want, when they want, and how they want to do thing when it comes to their children. And, the men are supposed to take whatever is being dished out and pay child support, fight for joint custody or visitation. An increasing percentage of children live with unmarried parents. Most fathers concerns are that an unreasonable amount of child support is awarded by the magistrate's court to the mother, which is more money…

    • 1767 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    New fathers create a better understanding of what the moms go…

    • 903 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Superior Essays

    By not promoting this occurrence, males wouldn’t be able to think that leaving their child is an outlet from becoming a parent. Not having a father has been such a nonchalant topic due to the constant talks about this subject, this should be conveyed as a taboo rather than a typical thing that males could do to not be there for their child. In America, a father’s absence is rapidly increasing. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, there are over 24 million children.…

    • 577 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Pursuit Of Happyness

    • 816 Words
    • 4 Pages

    In a research study by Black et al, the impacts of the presence of a father or a father figure in a child’s life were analyzed. The researchers’ objective was to analyze the contribution that an African American father with a low socioeconomic status make to their family and the impact that this contribution, in turn, has on a preschool children’s competence, behavior, and home environment. According to Black et al, paternal engagement with a child can be determined by the status of his marriage. Fathers who are satisfied with their marital life have a tendency to be more involved in the child’s daily life compared to the fathers which are discontent with their marriage…

    • 816 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Brilliant Essays

    The Progressive Movement

    • 3898 Words
    • 16 Pages

    Rodney McLemore Professor C. French English 300, Research Paper 21 April 2018 The Rise of the Progressive Movement & the Destruction of the African American Family For over 60 years the married two-parent nuclear family was the established traditional standard for families raising children in America. However, due to the rise of the secular progressive movement the family model has been redesigned. These drastic sociological changes have had a major impact on well-established social norms and societal values. New concepts of families of cohabitants, same-sex marriages, and single parented households have become more prevalent.…

    • 3898 Words
    • 16 Pages
    Brilliant Essays
  • Improved Essays

    In the development of a child it is important that a child has a father figure. It is important because fathers play a vital role in a child 's emotional and physical development. With so many fathers having the choice to just opt in or out of a child’s life leaves it difficult for a woman to decide on giving birth to a child. Once it comes to the point in women having a father in their child’s life or not gets scary. Scary because a child is life changing and not something easy to just take on by yourself.…

    • 820 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays