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Fathering Behaviors

The Dynamics of the Man-Child Bond

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  • © 1985

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Authors:
  1. Wade C. Mackey

    1. Iowa Wesleyan College, Mount Pleasant, USA

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Part of the book series: Perspectives in Developmental Psychology (PDPS)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Introduction

    • Wade C. Mackey
    Pages 1-21

  3. The Adult Male-Child Bond

    • Wade C. Mackey
    Pages 22-65

  4. Parameters of the Man-Child Bond

    • Wade C. Mackey
    Pages 66-78

  5. A Test for the Hypothesized Adult Male-Child Bond

    • Wade C. Mackey
    Pages 79-101

  6. The Plowman-Protector Complex

    • Wade C. Mackey
    Pages 102-119

  7. The American Adult Male-Child Dyad

    • Wade C. Mackey
    Pages 120-141

  8. The Myth of The Derelict Daddy

    • Wade C. Mackey
    Pages 142-148

  9. The American Family: A Tragedy of the Commons?

    • Wade C. Mackey
    Pages 149-166

  10. Conclusion

    • Wade C. Mackey
    Pages 167-181

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 182-203
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Like the lines of a secret map made dimly apparent by the chemical potion brushed on a piece of paper from a child's detective kit, the outlines of what may be a substantial behavioral biology of human life seem to be coming clear. From genetic science at its most molecular to demography with its assessment of the vital experience of massive populations, there is a growing understanding of the various ways in which the human species reveals underlying commonalities of experi­ ence through the life cycle and over the web of interactions that constitutes the basic matter of social life. At the same time, research has been successful in two super­ ficially and contradictory directions: first, in showing the enormous variation in human arrangements and consciousness across and with­ in cultures; and second, in showing the similarity between cultures as far as basic processes of physiology, neurophysiology, and even so­ ciallife are concerned. But the contradiction only exists in the absence of an understanding of the fact that in a species living under as many ecological, historical, and economic niches as Homo sapiens, cultural variation is what one would naturally expect.

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  • Iowa Wesleyan College, Mount Pleasant, USA

    Wade C. Mackey

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