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Dads, Kids, and Fitness : A Father's Guide to Family Health / William Marsiglio.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780813584867
  • 9780813584881
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 613.7 23
LOC classification:
  • RA777.7 .M37 2016
  • RA777.7 .M37 2016
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- 1. Mapping Dads' Place in the Health Matrix -- 2. From Being a Boy to Becoming a Daddy -- 3. Routines, Rituals, and Care -- 4. Taking Stock and Achieving Personal Growth -- 5. Chronic Challenges -- 6. Coparenting -- 7. Making Proactive Dads -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Summary: Now more than ever, American dads act as hands-on caregivers who are devoted to keeping themselves and their families healthy. Yet, men are also disproportionately likely to neglect their own health care, diets, and exercise routines-bad habits that they risk passing on to their children. In Dads, Kids, and Fitness, William Marsiglio challenges dads to become more health-conscious in how they live and raise their children. His conclusions are drawn not only from his revealing interviews with a diverse sample of dads and pediatric healthcare professionals, but also from his own unique personal experiences-as a teenage father who, thirty-one years later, became a later-life dad to a second son. Marsiglio's research highlights the value of treating dads as central players in what he calls the social health matrix, which can serve both healthy children and those with special needs. He also outlines how schools, healthcare facilities, religious groups, and other organizations can help dads make a positive imprint on their families' health, fitness, and well-being. Anchored in compelling life stories of joy, tragedy, and resilience, Dads, Kids, and Fitness extends and deepens public conversation about health at a pivotal historical moment. Its progressive message breathes new life into discussions about fathering, manhood, and health.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- 1. Mapping Dads' Place in the Health Matrix -- 2. From Being a Boy to Becoming a Daddy -- 3. Routines, Rituals, and Care -- 4. Taking Stock and Achieving Personal Growth -- 5. Chronic Challenges -- 6. Coparenting -- 7. Making Proactive Dads -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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Now more than ever, American dads act as hands-on caregivers who are devoted to keeping themselves and their families healthy. Yet, men are also disproportionately likely to neglect their own health care, diets, and exercise routines-bad habits that they risk passing on to their children. In Dads, Kids, and Fitness, William Marsiglio challenges dads to become more health-conscious in how they live and raise their children. His conclusions are drawn not only from his revealing interviews with a diverse sample of dads and pediatric healthcare professionals, but also from his own unique personal experiences-as a teenage father who, thirty-one years later, became a later-life dad to a second son. Marsiglio's research highlights the value of treating dads as central players in what he calls the social health matrix, which can serve both healthy children and those with special needs. He also outlines how schools, healthcare facilities, religious groups, and other organizations can help dads make a positive imprint on their families' health, fitness, and well-being. Anchored in compelling life stories of joy, tragedy, and resilience, Dads, Kids, and Fitness extends and deepens public conversation about health at a pivotal historical moment. Its progressive message breathes new life into discussions about fathering, manhood, and health.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)