Study: "Social work, however, has remained largely impervious to the growing awareness of the importance of fathers in children’s lives…More significantly perhaps, social work has been influenced by feminist theory..."

xLadyVirgil · 2012-11-26T19:43:25+00:00

I've taken 2 social work classes, and while there is a lot of emphasis on the plights of women, children, immigrants/racialized citizens, the Aboriginal, and the elderly, there is not one section in one chapter that focuses on the plights of men. I still have my main textbook and yeah... nothin' that addresses male-specific problems.

actanonverba8 · 2012-11-26T07:14:50+00:00

Link at bottom, here are excerpts:

"Social work, however, has remained largely impervious to the growing awareness of the importance of fathers in children’s lives…"

"More significantly perhaps, social work has been influenced by feminist theory, or at least by second wave feminism (Orme, 2003, Scourfield and Coffey, 2002)…"

"The survival of patriarchy as an organising construct is especially strong in social work (Scourfield and Coffey, 2002). In the UK, the education and training of social workers has contributed to an oversimplification of discussions around gender (Orme, 2003)… In this climate, gender perspectives have struggled to move beyond the grand narrative of patriarchy."

http://www.circlescotland.org/upload/file/Documents_snd_Reports/Listening%20to%20Fathers%20Report%20Nov12.pdf

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