Distant patriarchs or expressive dads? The discourse and practice of fathering in conservative protestant families
Distant patriarchs or expressive dads? The discourse and practice of fathering in conservative protestant families
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1533-8525.2000.tb00088.x
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发表时间：
2000-06-01
影响因子：
1.2
通讯作者：
Xu, XH
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作者：
Bartkowski, JP;Xu, XH
尽管父亲参与的研究文献蓬勃发展，宗教和父亲之间的关系得到了显着的关注很少从实证研究人员。我们的调查阐明了这一不足的父亲方面，研究如何保守的新教性别意识形态影响父亲参与福音派家庭。我们的研究从审查内部文件开始-即性别和家庭建议手册-由保守的新教杰出人士撰写。一群保守的新教建议作者认为，父亲在家庭中的参与和男性角色塑造对于正确形成儿童独特的性别身份至关重要，而另一群作者则主张无性别的配偶角色和共同的育儿责任。然后，我们转向全国家庭和家庭调查的第一波数据，以衡量保守的新教徒父亲养育子女的做法的独特性。我们发现，保守的新教父亲比他们的nonevangelical同行更有可能从事父亲的监督和情感养育。这些发现强调了保守的新教家庭中父亲的复杂性，并为未来关于父亲参与的宗教层面的研究指明了几个富有成效的方向。
Despite the burgeoning research literature on paternal involvement, the relationship between religion and fatherhood has received remarkably little attention from empirical researchers. Our investigation illuminates this understudied dimension of fathering by examining how conservative Protestant gender ideologies impact paternal involvement in evangelical households. Our study begins with an examination of insider documents - namely, gender and family advice manuals - written by conservative Protestant luminaries. One soup of conservative Protestant advice authors argues that paternal involvement and masculine role modeling in the home is crucial to the proper formation of children's distinctive gender identities, while a rival coterie of authors advocates ungendered spousal roles and shared parenting responsibilities. We then turn to data from wave 1 of the National Survey of Families and Households to gauge the distinctiveness of parenting practices among conservative Protestant fathers. We find that conservative Protestant fathers are considerably more likely than their nonevangelical counterparts to engage in paternal supervision and affective parenting. Such findings underscore the complexity of fathering in conservative Protestant households and illuminate several fruitful directions for future research on the religious dimensions of paternal involvement.