Father movement

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The fathers movement is a part of the men's rights movement that emerged in the 1970s and 80s with a special thematic focus on custody and maintenance law .

aims

Due to the demanded termination of the exclusive responsibility of women for housework and family work through the second wave of the women's movement , the role of father was also being reinterpreted in society: away from the traditional father , who was perceived as authoritarian, commanding, punitive and preparing for work and war an emotionally competent father who takes time for the family .

The father movement takes up this new perceived father image. Important fields of action are entwined with the upheavals that have resulted from the transformations and dissolution of gender roles. The traditional father role is still manifest in law , economics , science and society . This leads to a structural disadvantage for the New Fathers. As a social movement , the father movement aims to overcome this disadvantage with the aim of putting father and mother on an equal footing and creating and living a new image of father. In this context, it is emphasized that the increase in working hours and the increase in precarious employment makes it difficult for both men and women to fulfill their responsibilities towards children.

Self-help organizations and associations have formed in many places , such as the Fathers' Start for Children and the Väterzentrum Berlin strengthen and promote fathers in their role.

Within the fathers 'rights movement still that leaves fathers' rights movement call. Her thematic focus lies in the area of ​​the legal disadvantage of fathers, especially in family law , e.g. B. in relation to custody and access rights .

Situation in Germany

According to an estimate in 2006, around 8,000 men are involved in the fathers' movement. Your media presence is high.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jocelyn Elise Crowley: Conflicted Membership: Women in Fathers' Rights Groups . In: Sociological Inquiry . 79, No. 3, 2009, pp. 328-350. doi : 10.1111 / j.1475-682X.2009.00293.x .
  2. ↑ Anna Gavanas in: Michael Kimmel , Amy Aronson (Ed.): Men & Masculinities: A Social, Cultural, and Historical Encyclopedia . Vol. 1. ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara, Calif. 2004, ISBN 1-57607-774-8 , Fathers' Rights, pp. 289 (English, limited preview in Google Book search).
  3. ↑ Molly Dragiewicz: Equality with a vengeance: Men's rights groups, battered women, and antifeminist backlash . Northeastern University Press, Boston 2011, pp. 13, 84-85, ISBN 978-1-55553-738-8 .
  4. ^ Michael A. Messner: The Limits of the "Male Sex Role": An Analysis of the Men's Liberation and Men's Rights Movement's Discourse . In: Gender & Society . 12, No. 3, 1998, pp. 255-276. doi : 10.1177 / 0891243298012003002 .
  5. ^ Michael A. Messner: "Changing Men" and Feminist Politics in the United States . In: Theory & Society . 22, No. 5, 1993, pp. 723-737. doi : 10.1007 / BF00993545 .
  6. ↑ Become a father, be a father, remain a father. Documentation of a symposium of the Forum Men in Theory and Practice of Gender Relations in cooperation with the Heinrich Böll Foundation on 24/25. May 2002 in Berlin. Writings on Gender Democracy No. 5 ( online ; PDF; 567 kB)
  7. ↑ Heike Friauf: Exemplary fathers . In: Junge Welt from February 20, 2008 (supplement feminism )
  8. ↑ Tina Groll: Even for “Men are difficult to combine work and children” In: Die Zeit online from March 25, 2010.
  9. ↑ Mechthild Bereswill, Kirsten Scheiwe, Anja Wolde: Fatherhood in Transition: Multidisciplinary Analyzes and Perspectives from a Gender Theoretical Perspective. 2006, page 78