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MAKING MEN INTO DADS

Fatherhood, the State, and Welfare Reform

LAURA CURRAN

University of California, Berkeley

LAURA S. ABRAMS

University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Recent revisions in child support and paternity establishment legislation enacted under the 1996 welfare reform act, the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA), significantly alter the American welfare state's relationship to men's fathering. Through a critical review of prior research and social service literature, the authors argue that PRWORA actively constructs fatherhood not only through state policies that maintain males as "breadwinners" but also through state-sponsored social service programs that seek to influence men's identities as fathers. PRWORA's policies and their accompanying discourses simultaneously reproduce and undermine gender hierarchy yet tacitly maintain structural race and class inequalities.

Gender & Society, Vol. 14, No. 5, 662-678 (2000)
DOI: 10.1177/089124300014005005
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