Father Parental Rights And The Child 's Social Development

     In the United States today more than one-half of all marriages end in divorce. The purpose of this paper is to examine the reason why women have typically received custody of the children far more often than the fathers. In order to better understand child custody one must first examine how fathers have often times been left out of the picture, and conversely why mothers have had such hard times raising children on their own. This paper will first examine the perspective of a father who has lost custody of his children.

Due to problems arising out of bitter divorces, custody, and support battles fathers are ostracize out of their children’s life. Fathers are often looked at as the bad person when things go wrong and being the blame. Fathers are just as responsible for the child being born as the mother. Over the years fathers continue to fight for equal rights, mothers are looked at as the victims and often make false statements about the fathers to suit their own selfish needs. Accusations of sexual and child abuse by mothers of the noncustodial fathers are often found to be untrue.

According to the US Census Bureau, 36.3% of children are living absent of their biological fathers. Beginning in 1960 with 8% of children living without their biological father, that percentage has continued to increase. The issue of absent fathers has raised many questions as to what effects this has on individuals and society. Absent fathers (a term that can consist of many different things) can have a profound effect on the development of their daughter's relationships, especially when it comes to their relationships with other men. While the research on this topic may be lacking, what is out there is clear that fathers do play an important role in their development. Women can face things such as becoming sexually promiscuous, low

For various reasons, many children in the United States are living without their fathers in their homes or absent from their lives entirely. This is an issue all across the world and the children are having to deal with the disadvantages caused by the lack of support from their fathers. This issue has a significant effect on society and can be viewed and interpreted from the three sociological perspectives. As a result of many studies, it was found that children raised in father absent homes almost universally experience disadvantages such as: worse health, poorer academic achievement, and a less enjoyable educational experience. There are many variables that need to be taken into effect when considering

Throughout the United States, more than one-third of children don't live with their biological fathers, and about 17 million of those children don't live with any father at all. Of those, roughly 40 percent haven't seen their fathers in the last year. The over 500 Father's Rights organizations are trying in a variety of ways to change these statistics because they believe that fathers are necessary to the intellectual, psychological and emotional well- being of all children. "Family values" groups encourage long lasting stable, marriages and tough divorce laws to increase the number of two- parent households. Some organizations focus on reasonable child support and visitation, as well as creative joint custody arrangements to

In today’s ever changing world of family problems and instability, fathers are becoming a very scarce commodity. There is a major crisis brewing in the United States and the family unit is coming under siege. (According to the U.S. Census Bureau, over 24 four million children live without a father, that’s one out of every three children living in a home with one of the supporting pillars in a family.) With the father absence in these child lives, they become more prone to various problems in life later on. Everything from dropping out of school to going to prison, the chances of this happening increase dramatically.

The experiment has gone on for over forty years. Decades of sociological evidence now illuminate the “liberated family.” In the light of this evidence, I will evaluate the claim that that a father’s absence in a family has no significant impact on the development of children. To put the matter bluntly, the cultural advocates of this new thinking were simply wrong, and the result of adopting their views has proved a disaster for families, for mothers, for children, and for fathers. To demonstrate the falsity of the claim, I will explore two major symptoms of the disaster: Divorce and the Family and Poverty and the Family. These will highlight the importance of the father to family health. I will then offer a Christian alternative to the current thinking—the Christian Father as the Family’s Servant Leader, an alternative by which godly fathers give support to mothers, offer security for children, and develop a new generation that is disciplined in the wisdom and knowledge of God.

At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the American courts that dealt with divorce cases and broken marriages realized that there weren’t many supported nor significant laws related to the support of the dependents involved. America as you know, took many english laws they thought important and useful and applied them in the early eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. These laws found that the father had only a non-enforceable moral duty to support his children. In fact, at one time precedents actually forbid any third party from recovering the costs of support unless these costs had been authorized prior, by a contract with the child’s father. But these laws however, did allow for a limited recovery of these costs in some circumstances.

The concept of parental responsibility has changed from parents seeking ‘custody and control’ over children under ‘Family Law Act 1975 (cth)’, enforcing their parental rights. Its principle was criticised over its lack of reflection of contemporary values and the changing compositions of family structures. Therefore, legislative reform implemented the notion of ‘equal shared

“Good Dads - Bad Dads” by Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr. examines trends of father’s behaviors and attitude of parental responsibilities (1988). Previously, the father’s role had “an...exclusive emphasis on economic responsibilities which interfered with the day-to-day contact they had with their children” (Furstenberg 1988 : 196). He explains that it was the transition from rural to an industrial economy that began the revision of parental roles (Furstenberg 1988). This gave rise to “male liberation” “from the excessive burdens of the good provider role” and to the modern father (Furstenberg 1988 : 199). On the one hand, males have been freed to interact more fully in the family, and on the other hand, they have also been liberated from all family responsibilities (Furstenberg 1988). Furstenberg notes that “there is a growing trend toward fathers’ absence from families and the apparent unwillingness...to assume economic responsibilities for their support” (1988).

The most abused social problem is absent fathers. When a child’s father dies, there is no quick fix unless the mother gets remarried. Whereas if the father is alive and knows about the child, but disregards to care for or recognize his kid, is what is being abused. A life without a father is barren. Two parents are better than one without a doubt. If someone were to believe that anything positive arrives from fatherless raised children, my thought is, why? How do you? How do you suppose a kid enter the world from an absent fathered family, and conform in a relatively masculine world? How do you come to believe that being raised without a father doesn’t harm a kid’s objective on life? Do you think that kid will acquire an equal amount of love,

We can see that fathers and children support each other, reassure each other and depending on the age of the children, they could also act as breadwinners as their father tries to get back into the family structure and prepares to assume his role of providing for his family.

This research paper focuses on the fundamental rights of every father for custody of his minor children. The parental “ physical care and control” of a minor child is termed to as custody (Nestor, 2011).Logically, anyone’s first instinct would probably be to reply that fathers should not be allowed same custody rights as traditionally believed that the mother is the main ‘caregiver.’ Following instances divorce or children born out of wed-lock, Several Fathers are currently struggling to gain custody of their children. Fathers remain the underprivileged when it comes to young children disputes, despite their earnest efforts to gain custody of their children. The system has strained fathers’ attempts as they can be allowed to pick their children up for shorter periods now and then, provided it does not interfere with the mother’s new life. Though mothers are the best parents in most cases, fathers too have equal capabilities and should be legally entitled custodial rights to their young children. The case of custody rights should be reviewed more in depth and also from a legal standpoint as both fathers and mothers are equal, and qualify same rights under the law.

Close your eyes and imagine this. People arguing and screaming left and right but your so innocent you don’t know what they are saying. Then out of nowhere your mom picks you up and you leave the only house you ever knew. Without your father, before a child reaches the age of 18, more than half of our nations kids are likely to spend at least most of their time without their father. About 36% of children live with an absent biological parent. However, 40% of children in the western world goes to bed in a house where their father is not present. In a lot of cases, children that have separated parents are reported dead center in their argument, this leaves the child left wondering about the absence of that parent.

Once apart they can easily fend for themselves or find support from another source. On the other hand, families with dependent spouses and children still have to provide for their young ones long after they have left the nest. Children can not readily leave and become self efficient and support themselves for the rest of their natural born lives after a families head figures have divorced. The parents could move on, but would still have to raise money to keep themselves alive while supporting their children. Depending on the many different situations one could have full custody of the children, leaving the responsibility of the support of the children to one sole parent. Another is where one spouse would be forced to pay child support, by court order, to sustain their child’s lifestyle along with the owning parent’s choice of life also. Even if both parents could not maintain their child’s need of living the child could be giving oven to another outside family member’s custody. Another method for these families is to stay together for the children’s benefit (Al-Kazi, 2008). Some spouses withstand the hardships they have brought upon themselves physically and mentally for their children’s sake. They may have feelings of divorce, but have come to an understanding that staying together and dealing with the problems that arise between them is a more productive situation for their children financially. But