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12%OFFDeena Mandell - Deadbeat Dads: Subjectivity and Social Construction - 9780802083180 - V9780802083180
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Deadbeat Dads: Subjectivity and Social Construction

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Description for Deadbeat Dads: Subjectivity and Social Construction paperback. Non-payment of child support is often categorized as an individual act of deviance or moral failing, reinforcing resistance and disengagement on the part of fathers by causing them to see themselves as victims whose personal rights are under threat. Num Pages: 272 pages, 3 figures. BIC Classification: JHBK; JKSB1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 21. Weight in Grams: 435.

The "deadbeat dad" is a common figure in today's news media. As an experienced social worker, family therapist and mediator, Deena Mandell is intimate with legal and institutional discourses on the topic, but also with the lived reality of those involved in support conflict. In Deadbeat Dads, she addresses the question: "Why hasn't child support enforcement solved the problem of non-payment?"

Non-payment of child support is all-too-easily categorized as an individual act of deviance or moral failing, or as having purely economic ill effects. One consequence of this is to actually reinforce resistance and disengagement on the part of fathers, ... Read more

Dr Mandell constructs a complex, nuanced argument around findings from interviews with a small sample of separated fathers, augmented with the perspectives of enforcement personnel such as judges, mediators and lawyers, and with firsthand observation of courtroom discussion. This is a qualitative study that lets informants speak for themselves, but subjects the resulting insights to critical analysis.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9780802083180
SKU
V9780802083180
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About Deena Mandell
Deena Mandell is a professor in the Faculty of Social Work at Wilfrid Laurier University.

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