TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2001//
TI  - A Hard Time to Be a Father?: Reassessing the Relationship Between Law, Policy, and Family (Practices)
JO  - Journal of law and society
A1  - Collier, Richard
SP  - 520
EP  - 545
VL  - 28
IS  - 4
N2  - This article seeks to unpack the way in which a constellation of ideas around what it means to speak of ‘good fatherhood’ has come to inform a series of debates, after the election of the New Labour government in 1997, around the content and contours of paternal responsibility. Via a focus on family law and recent developments around the idea of ‘work-life’ balance, it discusses the concepts underpinning present debates. In questioning the still-powerful (if frequently unspoken) influence of social constructionist ideas of sex/gender, it explores and question how men's ‘family practices’ have been understood.<p /> 
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SN  - 0263-323X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-6478.00201
ID  - ref1
ER  -