TY - JOUR
T1 - Fathers' rights groups
T2 - Demographic correlates and impact on custody policy
AU - Rosen, Leora N.
AU - Dragiewicz, Molly
AU - Gibbs, Jennifer C.
PY - 2009/5
Y1 - 2009/5
N2 - This article combines information from fathers' rights Web sites with demographic, historical, and other information to provide an empirically based analysis of fathers' rights advocacy in the United States. Content analysis discerns three factors that are central to the groups' rhetoric: representing domestic violence allegations as false, promoting presumptive joint custody and decreasing child support, and portraying women as perpetrators of domestic abuse. Fathers' rights organizations and themes are examined in relation to state-level demographics and custody policy. The implications of fathers' rights activism for battered women and their children are explored.
AB - This article combines information from fathers' rights Web sites with demographic, historical, and other information to provide an empirically based analysis of fathers' rights advocacy in the United States. Content analysis discerns three factors that are central to the groups' rhetoric: representing domestic violence allegations as false, promoting presumptive joint custody and decreasing child support, and portraying women as perpetrators of domestic abuse. Fathers' rights organizations and themes are examined in relation to state-level demographics and custody policy. The implications of fathers' rights activism for battered women and their children are explored.
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U2 - 10.1177/1077801209331409
DO - 10.1177/1077801209331409
M3 - Article
C2 - 19255420
AN - SCOPUS:63849261240
SN - 1077-8012
VL - 15
SP - 513
EP - 531
JO - Violence Against Women
JF - Violence Against Women
IS - 5
ER -
