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Summary: Deadbeats with an attitude
Review: Views deadbeat dads as reflecting their own attitudes that imply they each are good fathers regardless of the contradictions in their behaviors and that they use elements of the socially constructed systems to support those views. Developing a system of support that depends on the men to be the main providers reinforces the patriarchal system leaving women with the main role of care provider, thus keeping them locked in the very position they tried to escape from. Males also tend to view the marital relationship as one of support for privilege - sexual and housekeeping favors for financial support. With divorce and the end of those privileges they view it unfair that they still have to pay support. Courts and social systems are viewed as being in support of the wife and feminism. Deena concludes that while males should still have to pay support, the support should really come from the state. It is unrealistic to think that a household that was not doing well - as most marriages that end in divorce are doing - would not be able to support two households when before they could not support one. She realizes this is also unrealistic in a time when budgets are being cut back not raised.She realizes there are conflicts between holding her feminists views and realizing that men do have some grounds for holding their interpretations of unfairness in the system but she blames that on the continuing patriarchal elements in the system used to garner their continuing support. A good quote: "Their transformation of patriarch into provider without privilege was unacceptable to them." P. 219
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Summary: Deadbeats with an attitude
Review: Views deadbeat dads as reflecting their own attitudes that imply they each are good fathers regardless of the contradictions in their behaviors and that they use elements of the socially constructed systems to support those views. Developing a system of support that depends on the men to be the main providers reinforces the patriarchal system leaving women with the main role of care provider, thus keeping them locked in the very position they tried to escape from. Males also tend to view the marital relationship as one of support for privilege - sexual and housekeeping favors for financial support. With divorce and the end of those privileges they view it unfair that they still have to pay support. Courts and social systems are viewed as being in support of the wife and feminism. Deena concludes that while males should still have to pay support, the support should really come from the state. It is unrealistic to think that a household that was not doing well - as most marriages that end in divorce are doing - would not be able to support two households when before they could not support one. She realizes this is also unrealistic in a time when budgets are being cut back not raised. She realizes there are conflicts between holding her feminists views and realizing that men do have some grounds for holding their interpretations of unfairness in the system but she blames that on the continuing patriarchal elements in the system used to garner their continuing support. A good quote: "Their transformation of patriarch into provider without privilege was unacceptable to them." P. 219
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