Citation

Palkovitz R, Daly K. Fathering 2004; 2(3): 215-233.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2004, Men's Studies Press)

DOI

10.3149/fth.0203.215

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Men in midlife face a challenging set of opportunities to adjust to work, familial, and physical changes. The timing and sequencing of transitions during middle age are not closely scripted or predictable. Thus, middle-aged men face a variety of tasks in unpredictable sequences with cumulative effects that can stimulate developmental change. Because there is neither a common sequence nor a timetable for normal developmental progression during middle age, it becomes all the more necessary to devise other means of viewing, describing, and explaining the diverse range of transformational experiences of men in midlife. We use "edges" as a guiding metaphor and the concepts of timing, dosage, and duration for examining the processes men experience within and between developmental stages or life-course transitions.

Language: en