Description: 1. The Abrading of the American Father.- 2. Rationales for Entering into the U.S. Fathering Role: Men's Divulgences, Women's Perceptions.- 3. Looking for a Man-to-Child Bond: Setting Up the Fieldwork.- 4. Results of the Fieldwork: The Joys and Tedium of Promiscuous Empiricism.- 5. Those Two Filters Once Again: Tabula Rasa or Biocultural Paradigm?.- 6. Father: Perceptions until the 1970s.- 7. Father the Irrelevant Becomes Father the Underachieving.- 8. Fathers in the 1990s: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.- 9. U.S. Fathering: In Search of a Benchmark.- 10. Fathering in the Breccia: On the Banks of the Rubicon.- 11. Electra and Lady Macbeth.- 12. The U.S. Father: A Tragedy of the Commons?.- 13. The Commons Will Not Stay Fallow.- 14. Troglodyte or Semiconductor: Dad in the Twenty-First Century.- References.- Author Index.

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