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dc.contributor.authorMkhwanazi, S
dc.contributor.authorJewkes, R
dc.contributor.authorSikweyiya, Y
dc.contributor.authorWashington, L
dc.contributor.authorGibbs, A
dc.date.accessioned2024-03-05T11:54:55Z
dc.date.issued2024-02-27
dc.date.updated2024-03-05T07:53:03Z
dc.description.abstractThe impact of absent fathers can be a significant challenge for young people, but particularly for young men. Our study drew on 19 in-depth interviews with young men living in urban informal settlements in South Africa, to understand how they understood the impact of biological father absence. Young men described an idealized fatherhood role in which biological fathers provided economic support, active fathering (including emotional support), and social recognition of children. Young men described biological father absence in very emotional terms, including the exclusion from family networks, and having negative economic and educational impacts. Furthermore, men saw biological father absence as impacting on their current situation, and as part and parcel of their wider social marginalization in South Africa. Social fathers — alternative male role models as they grew up — while described as existing, were not felt to be adequate in replacing biological fathers, despite the economic support and guidance some described receiving. Engaging with young men around the repercussions of biological father absence is important for supporting young, poor men in South Africa.en_GB
dc.description.sponsorshipSouth African Medical Research Councilen_GB
dc.description.sponsorshipUKRIen_GB
dc.identifier.citationPublished online 27 February 2024en_GB
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1007/s43151-024-00118-1
dc.identifier.grantnumberMR/T029803/1en_GB
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10871/135480
dc.identifierORCID: 0000-0003-2812-5377 (Gibbs, Andrew)
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherSpringeren_GB
dc.subjectAbsent fatheren_GB
dc.subjectYoung menen_GB
dc.subjectEmotionsen_GB
dc.subjectSupporten_GB
dc.subjectSocial fatheren_GB
dc.titleYoung Men’s Experiences of Being Fathered and Absent Father’s Experience: A Case Study from Urban Informal Settlements in South Africaen_GB
dc.typeArticleen_GB
dc.date.available2024-03-05T11:54:55Z
dc.identifier.issn2204-9193
dc.descriptionThis is the final version. Available on open access from Springer via the DOI in this recorden_GB
dc.identifier.eissn2204-9207
dc.identifier.journalJournal of Applied Youth Studiesen_GB
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of Applied Youth Studies
dc.rights.urihttp://www.rioxx.net/licenses/all-rights-reserveden_GB
dcterms.dateAccepted2024-02-06
rioxxterms.versionVoRen_GB
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate2024-02-27
rioxxterms.typeJournal Article/Reviewen_GB
refterms.dateFCD2024-03-05T11:51:53Z
refterms.versionFCDVoR
refterms.dateFOA2024-03-05T11:54:59Z
refterms.panelAen_GB
refterms.dateFirstOnline2024-02-27


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