"The good and the bad?" childhood experiences with fathers and their influence on women's expectations and men's experiences of fathering in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Fathering

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 138-158

  Makusha, Tawanda ^a,b   Richter, Linda ^a,b,c   Knight, Lucia ^a   Van Rooyen, Heidi ^a   Bhana, Deevia ^b  

^a HUMAN SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Childhood experiences; Father child involvement; Fathering; Men's experiences; South Africa; Women's expectations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893103769     PISSN: 15376680     EISSN: 1933026X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3149/fth.1102.138     Document Type: Article

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