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Fatherhood in
the Crossfire:
Chicano Teen Fathers Struggling to
"Take Care of Business"
by Rudy Hernandez
Michigan State University
Working
Paper No. 58
November 2002
Abstract:
Increased divorce rates and out-of-wedlock births have precipitated
much national conversation about the well-being of children raised in
single family households. Commonly evoked is the image of a single mother
who is struggling to raise children without the help of her children’s
biological father, or a “deadbeat dad.” However, realistically,
she has a good chance of remarrying a man whose ex-wife and children are
being primarily supported and raised by yet another man (Coleman, Ganong
& Fine, 2000). If the mother is poor and young, the image quickly
becomes that of a Black or brown woman who is perpetuating her condition
by irresponsibly becoming pregnant repeatedly, by multiple men, most often
in her teens, without regard or need for establishing a traditional family;
she is replacing familial support: economic, social, emotional and psychological,
with that of the state. The Black or brown father(s) are seen as irresponsible,
incorrigible, highly oversexed, sometimes depraved, boys or men who derive
their self worth from irresponsibly fathering as many children as possible
and who have no regard for society’s existing mores for civility.
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